When White Boys Kill

Abstract

The image of male youth homicide is primarily associated with young black males. However, recent school shootings in which multiple innocent victims were murdered indicate that young white males may be at serious risk of a much more tragic homicidal phenomenon known as multicide. This paper offers a conceptual framework to explain multicide and violence generally among young white males by employing an Afrocentric analysis. This analysis assumes that multicide among young white males can be explained by the convergence of three structural-cultural factors, which are (1) the concept of manhood that places considerable emphasis on physical aggression; (2) the phenomenon of spiritual alienation; and (3) the anxiety and stress associated with concerns over maintaining white male privilege. The paper also presents recommendations that describe how the effects of these three factors could be prevented and mediated, and it offers suggestions for future research that applies an Afrocentric framework to investigate young, white male violence.     

Immigration,ethnicity, and the loss of white students from California public schools, 1990–2000

This article investigates whether and the extent to which “white flight” from Hispanic and Limited English Proficient (LEP) students has been occurring in California’s public schools and further, examines the level (school or district) on which “white flight” may operate. Using school-level administrative data from the California Department of Education from 1990 to 2000, we estimate exponential growth rate models of white enrollment with school-level fixed effects. The results shed light on the implications of immigration for school segregation in the United States. The analysis indicates that white enrollment declined in response to increases in the number of Spanish-speaking LEP and Hispanic students, and that “white flight” from LEP or Hispanic students occurred more at the district than the school level in the case of primary schools, and at the school level for secondary schools. In addition, schools with higher percentages of Spanish LEP students in the school than the district, and with higher percentages in the district relative to the county, experienced greater losses in white enrollments than other schools, thus suggesting that higher levels of segregation in the wider metropolitan area accelerate white flight.     

民族村寨历史传说的文化内涵及其现代价值——以鄂西南来凤县“白羊传说”为个案

以鄂西南来凤县白羊坡村有关白羊传说的口头传承为题材,通过村民的历史记忆和美好想象,透视其文化内涵,从而认识传说的现代价值.     

读《为什么餐厅里的黑人孩子都坐在一起》——兼论该书对构建中国和谐族群关系的启示

本文对塔特姆(Beverly Danjel Tatum)教授<为什么餐厅里的黑人孩子都坐在一起>一书进行了简要介绍.塔特姆指出,种族歧视是一种体系优势.通过对白人背景下黑人、白人以及其他有色人种特质的精辟分析,她深刻地揭示了美国种族关系的实质,并提出了促进跨种族对话来打破沉默的建议.塔特姆的理论观点对于中国的族群关系建设有重要启示.在新的时代背景下,中国不仅要在中华民族背景下了解少数民族,也要在中华民族背景下了解汉族.     

对刑事诉讼中的客观真实之反思

我国刑事诉讼制度以辩证唯物主义认识论为指导思想 ,追求客观真实的实现是刑事诉讼的基本目标。客观真实也成为刑事证据制度的理论基础。传统刑事诉讼中的客观真实片面强调了刑事诉讼与一般自然认识和社会认识的共性 ,忽略了刑事诉讼之不同于其他认识过程的特殊性。应当以法律真实代替客观真实 ,并在以法律真实作为诉讼基本目标的基础上建立现代文明、科学的诉讼制度     

故事情节化解释模式：海登·怀特历史叙事的审美观照

海登·怀特的故事情节化解释模式是在弗莱故事原型理论、克罗齐表现主义美学与尼采审美思想影响下提出的。海登·怀特的四种故事情节化解释模式分别突出了喜剧妥协论、悲剧的“融合”趋势、浪漫剧的“救赎”主题和讽刺剧的“反救赎”主题,阐释了历史文本中的快乐体验、忧郁体验、悲壮体验和挫败体验。他将这一理论用于研究十九世纪欧洲经典史学著作,是对经典历史文本的审美阐释、对历史“瞬间美”的挖掘和对改造历史的审美尝试,彰显了现代审美意识,具有不可忽视的审美价值。     

曹植《白马篇》的原型蠡测

一般认为曹植《白马篇》是作者“自况”,但实际上它的原型却当是少年英雄曹丕。曹丕有《白马篇》那样非凡的箭术和武艺,他的英雄事迹还传扬四方。当然,曹丕与曹植不和,二人因争夺继承权而水火不容,但这是后来的事,兄弟二人早年关系亲密,《白马篇》成于早年。     

白蛇传的城市想象与文化记忆

白蛇传是中国家喻户晓的民间四大传说之一,一直以来,人们都认为民间故事与传说只是关于乡土民间的叙说。本文从这个“美丽的误会”入手,以白蛇传为例,揭示古老传说与城市文化之间千丝万缕的联系。白蛇传是一部关于城市的民间叙事作品,城市成为白蛇文化的重要载体。它在不断地演绎发展的过程中始终如一地承载着民众对于杭州这座城市的想象,这些对城市的想象和表达,同时也构成人们对这座城市的文化记忆。     

论《白鹿原》中的传统文化元素

《白鹿原》真实地还原了20世纪中国国民的生存状态,挖掘了民族传统文化的多重元素,如儒家仁义与忠孝文化、宗法家族文化、农耕文化、传宗接代文化、男权文化与女性贞洁文化、民间神秘文化、土匪文化、传统民俗文化等,正面描写了仍存活于民间生活状态中的传统价值体系,塑造了具有儒家文化人格魅力的白嘉轩形象,也揭示了传统文化对人性的种种压抑与迫害等负面因素。     

Life-Stories and Storied Lives: Genre and Reports of Lived Experience in Gay Personal Literature

ABSTRACT

Personal literature may be written either as a life story such as an autobiography or memoir or as an autobiographical novel. Using the three volumes comprising the memoir of author Paul Monette and the three volumes comprising the autobiographical fiction trilogy of journalist and novelist Edmund White, this article explores the goal of each author for selecting a particular genre in which to write about lived experience. Each author enjoyed an elite education and came to adulthood in postwar America in the decade prior to the gay rights era beginning in the 1970s, and each writer participated in the sociosexual culture emerging over the succeeding decade. Each writer became HIV+ in the 1980s (Monette died of complications attending AIDS in 1995), and each writer experienced the loss of his lover to AIDS. While Monette and White each experienced the anti-gay prejudice of postwar American society, Monette's youth was less troubled than that of White who grew up in a complex family with a distant yet harsh father toward whom he was also sexually attracted. While Monette's goal in writing a memoir was that the suffering of his generation of gay men should be remembered, White's goal was more personal, choosing autobiographical fiction in his effort to overcome his feelings of shame about being gay founded on his desire for his father.