Empowering Voices speaks with University of Chicago Political Scientist Cathy Cohen, Ph.D., author, feminist, scholar, activist about Voter ID laws. Cohen is also founder of the Black Youth Project.
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Minggu, 07 Oktober 2012
Jumat, 30 Desember 2011
Challenging Voter Identification Laws
Letters: Deciding Who is Eligible to Vote | New York Times
The Justice Department was right to invoke the Voting Rights Act and block South Carolina’s new law requiring voters to present photo identification. At least four additional states have put new photo identification requirements in place for the 2012 presidential elections — Kansas, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin — and more than a dozen other states have recently considered such policies.
Our examination of the distribution of photo identification and voter turnout in recent elections suggests that these new photo identification laws will substantially reduce voter turnout.
Crucially, however, our analysis indicates that these reductions will be concentrated among racial minority groups. According to a 2011 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, only 75 percent of African-American adults possess state-issued photo identification, compared with 92 percent of white adults. Thus, these laws are likely to dilute the influence of African-Americans at the ballot box, and could reshape the electoral landscape in several key races.
It is perhaps no coincidence that the five states that enacted photo ID laws in time for the 2012 election are controlled by Republican state legislatures and governors, reflecting a distinct electoral strategy to demobilize minority voters.
Cathy J. Cohen
Jon C. Rogowski
Jon C. Rogowski
Chicago, Dec. 28, 2011
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Cathy Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, co-principal Investigator on the Mobilization, Change and Political & Civic Engagement survey, and author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of the American Politics
Jon C. Rogowski is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Chicago.
Selasa, 01 November 2011
Rebirth of a Nation: Race & Gender Politics in Media | University of Chicago
Rebirth of a Nation: Race & Gender Politics in Media
Saturday, November 5, 2011 12:00 pm
1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL
This interactive event includes a panel of scholars, activists and artists in discussion with the audience about the politics of media representations of race and gender in this current period, which has been characterized by some as post-race and post-feminist. We will dissect contemporary moments in popular culture and political debates where race, gender, class and identity come center stage. Films like The Help, reality television shows like Basketball Wives, and hot button political issues such as immigration, Islamophobia, and the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street campaign lead the list. Panelists: Rosa Clemente, Bakari Kitwana (moderator), Joan Morgan, Mark Anthony Neal, Vijay Prashad, and Che "Rhymefest" Smith.
Co-presented with the Black Youth Project; the Organization of Black Students at U of C; and Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip Hop
773-702-8063
Selasa, 04 Januari 2011
Waldo Johnson Explores Ideas Surrounding Plight Of Black Men
Q & A: Social Scientist Explores Ideas Surrounding Plight Of Black Men
by The Atlanta Post
Dr. Waldo Johnson, a social scientist at The University of Chicago, has put together a book that he hopes will gets us closer to understanding the plight of Black men, whose trials and tribulations are yet to be fully explored in academia. His book, Social Work with African American Males: Health, Mental Health and Social Policy, integrates the perspective of several Black scholars and, hence, integrates both a professional and personal insight into “what’s hurting and helping young Black men.” We spoke to Dr. Johnson to learn more about this important work.
What inspired you to write this book and collaborate with others on this project?
The book is the result of a research conference that I hosted at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago in May, 2005. Earlier drafts of several of the chapters contained in the book were presented as conference papers at the conference. At the encouragement of my dean, I decided to organize the research presentations and invited several other scholars to contribute research papers to form the edited volume.
Because the focus of the conference was social work responses to African American males across the life course, I invited social work and other social science scholars whose research examines the various social statuses and well-being indicators represented in the volume. As a fatherhood research scholar, I realized that my capability to address all of these issues and social statuses was limited. I also sought to identify new and emerging scholars, many of whom were junior research faculty, as contributors to the volume because my early research efforts were supported by mid-career and senior scholars.
I recognized that the younger scholars would either bring fresh perspectives to persistent issues and problems that plague African American males or would be addressing emerging issues and identifying human and social capital among African American males for solving problems.
Obviously you’re familiar with your subject matter but what would you say was the most most surprising finding, for you, that came from this book?
I am broadly familiar with the various issues and problems that are addressed in the edited volume. I have addressed a number of these issues in my own research. The most surprising findings are not simply the approach that individual contributors take in conducting this scholarship contained in the volume but also their personal motivation for doing so. For example, my earlier research which focused on unwed fatherhood among low income African American males emerged as a result of my prior social work practitioner career engaged in adolescent pregnancy prevention programming aimed at high school and young adult African American males.
As a social work practitioner and subsequently as a social work researcher, I came to recognize that the lack of strong paternal and son relationships contributed significantly to the escalation of intergenerational adolescent and young adult fatherhood among those in my studies. As an African American male growing up in Americus, Georgia located in the state’s southwestern region, I enjoyed a strong, positive relationship with my own father. My interest in examining the growing phenomenon of unwed and nonresident fatherhood among low-income African American males emerged as I began to consider how profoundly different my life course might have been under such circumstances.
However, like many of the contributors to this edited volume, I recognize the fragility of our respective social statuses and how as African American males, many of us have been touched personally or indirectly by many of the issues and problems examined in this volume. Recently, I participated in a social science research scholars network meeting focused on masculinity and the wellbeing of African American males in which one of the speakers asked those in the audience to stand if they knew someone personally who is or have been incarcerated. In a room of approximately fifty early and mid-career African American research scholars, all holding at least a doctoral degree and many on faculties at some of the nation’s top colleges and universities, less than ten persons remained seated. I dare say that incarceration does not impact the lives of our peer colleagues in this manner. The increasing pervasiveness of such issues and problems among African American males heightens the urgency that we as African American social science researchers share in seeking viable solutions.
Read the Full Interview @ The Atlanta Post
by The Atlanta Post
Dr. Waldo Johnson, a social scientist at The University of Chicago, has put together a book that he hopes will gets us closer to understanding the plight of Black men, whose trials and tribulations are yet to be fully explored in academia. His book, Social Work with African American Males: Health, Mental Health and Social Policy, integrates the perspective of several Black scholars and, hence, integrates both a professional and personal insight into “what’s hurting and helping young Black men.” We spoke to Dr. Johnson to learn more about this important work.
What inspired you to write this book and collaborate with others on this project?
The book is the result of a research conference that I hosted at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago in May, 2005. Earlier drafts of several of the chapters contained in the book were presented as conference papers at the conference. At the encouragement of my dean, I decided to organize the research presentations and invited several other scholars to contribute research papers to form the edited volume.
Because the focus of the conference was social work responses to African American males across the life course, I invited social work and other social science scholars whose research examines the various social statuses and well-being indicators represented in the volume. As a fatherhood research scholar, I realized that my capability to address all of these issues and social statuses was limited. I also sought to identify new and emerging scholars, many of whom were junior research faculty, as contributors to the volume because my early research efforts were supported by mid-career and senior scholars.
I recognized that the younger scholars would either bring fresh perspectives to persistent issues and problems that plague African American males or would be addressing emerging issues and identifying human and social capital among African American males for solving problems.
Obviously you’re familiar with your subject matter but what would you say was the most most surprising finding, for you, that came from this book?
I am broadly familiar with the various issues and problems that are addressed in the edited volume. I have addressed a number of these issues in my own research. The most surprising findings are not simply the approach that individual contributors take in conducting this scholarship contained in the volume but also their personal motivation for doing so. For example, my earlier research which focused on unwed fatherhood among low income African American males emerged as a result of my prior social work practitioner career engaged in adolescent pregnancy prevention programming aimed at high school and young adult African American males.
As a social work practitioner and subsequently as a social work researcher, I came to recognize that the lack of strong paternal and son relationships contributed significantly to the escalation of intergenerational adolescent and young adult fatherhood among those in my studies. As an African American male growing up in Americus, Georgia located in the state’s southwestern region, I enjoyed a strong, positive relationship with my own father. My interest in examining the growing phenomenon of unwed and nonresident fatherhood among low-income African American males emerged as I began to consider how profoundly different my life course might have been under such circumstances.
However, like many of the contributors to this edited volume, I recognize the fragility of our respective social statuses and how as African American males, many of us have been touched personally or indirectly by many of the issues and problems examined in this volume. Recently, I participated in a social science research scholars network meeting focused on masculinity and the wellbeing of African American males in which one of the speakers asked those in the audience to stand if they knew someone personally who is or have been incarcerated. In a room of approximately fifty early and mid-career African American research scholars, all holding at least a doctoral degree and many on faculties at some of the nation’s top colleges and universities, less than ten persons remained seated. I dare say that incarceration does not impact the lives of our peer colleagues in this manner. The increasing pervasiveness of such issues and problems among African American males heightens the urgency that we as African American social science researchers share in seeking viable solutions.
Read the Full Interview @ The Atlanta Post
Senin, 01 November 2010
'Left of Black': Episode #7 featuring Farai Chideya and Cathy J. Cohen
Host Mark Anthony Neal discusses the mid-term elections and NPR's firing of Juan Williams with journalist Farai Chideya, founder and managing editor of Pop & Politics and former host of NPR's News & Notes.
Neal is also joined by Cathy J. Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of the new book Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics. Cohen is also the author of The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999)
Neal is also joined by Cathy J. Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of the new book Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics. Cohen is also the author of The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999)
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