Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond

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This book examines the increasing marginalization of and response by people living in urban areas throughout the Western Hemisphere, and both the local and global implications of continued colonial racial hierarchies and the often-dire consequences they have for people perceived as different. However, in the aftermath of recent U.S. elections, whiteness also seems to embody strictures on religion, ethnicity, country of origin, and almost any other personal characteristic deemed suspect at the moment. For that reason, gender, race, and even class, collectively, may not be sufficient units of analysis to study the marginalizing mechanisms of the urban center. The authors interrogate the social and institutional structures that facilitate the disenfranchisement or downward trajectory of groups, and their potential or subsequent lack of access to mainstream rewards. The book also seeks to highlight examples where marginalized groups have found ways to assert their equality. No recent texts have attempted to connect the mechanisms of marginality across geographical and political boundaries within the Western Hemisphere. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: A Special Note on the Heightened Effects of Urban Marginality in the Trump Era (Kenneth R. Roth)....Pages 3-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Beyond “Privilege”: Whiteness as the Center of Racial Marginalization (Nolan L. Cabrera, Chris Corces-Zimmerman)....Pages 13-29 Estranged in Their Own Land: Real and Imagined White Marginality in the Era of Trump (Zachary S. Ritter)....Pages 31-52 White Liberals: Or “Tautua” and “Ifonga”? My Life in East Palo Alto (Appollonia Mamadee Uhila)....Pages 53-74 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 Rationalizing Black Death: Sport Media’s Dehumanizing Coverage of Black College Football Players (Siduri J. Haslerig, Sara E. Grummert, Rican Vue)....Pages 77-109 Black Males and Marginality in America’s Urban Centers: Theorizing Blackness and Media Gatekeepers (Felix Kumah-Abiwu)....Pages 111-131 Marginalizing What Matters: Revisiting Latino Male Students in the Educational Pipeline (Adrian H. Huerta, Seth M. Fishman)....Pages 133-157 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 Doubly Marginalized: Conditions and Media Representations of Black Transgender Women in the United States with a Brief Focus on Jamaica (Babacar M’Baye)....Pages 161-185 Increasing Tribalism and the Quest to Get Along: A Case for Trinidad and Tobago (Dianne Williams)....Pages 187-221 Happa: The New Frontier of Marginality and Disruption of Long-Static Racial Constructs (Peary Brug, Daniel Giles)....Pages 223-245 Not Making the Grade: How Increased Reliance on Adjunct Faculty Diminishes Excellence, Academic Freedom, and the Search for New Knowledge (Anthony H. Normore)....Pages 247-274 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Conclusion: The Psychopathology of Marginalization—A Discussion of the Whiteness Ego (Faith Speaks)....Pages 277-292 Back Matter ....Pages 293-308