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![]() ![]() Project Title: The Last Cowboy: Freedom, Flexibility, and Myths of Legal Identity in the San Francisco Taxi Industry Drawing upon archival materials from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this project argues that these “appraisals of competency” demonstrate a racialized and gendered evaluation of Native American communities by the federal government, and highlights how these forces have influenced critical directions in federal Indian policy in the second half of the 20th century.ĭepartment: Jurisprudence and Social Policy As part of their determination for which tribes would be terminated, the BIA offered “appraisals of competency.” These official “appraisals,” made by BIA agents, provided an evaluation of the social, cultural and economic “progress” made by Native men and women in the tribe, and determined whether or not Native peoples were “prepared” to be “released” from federal supervision. Beginning in the late 1940s, federal Indian policy was aimed at officially ending the relationship between the federal government and Indian tribes, or, as the Bureau of Indian Affairs called it, “a withdrawal from supervision.” This new policy direction would ultimately result in the unilateral termination of over 100 federally recognized Indian tribes by the mid-1950s. In the years following World War II, the status of federal Indian tribes was dramatically reconsidered. Project Title: Appraisals of Competency: Race, Gender, and the Rhetoric of Federal Indian Law, 1945-1960 ![]() ![]() In this phase of the project I draw on a national sample of adult participants to experimentally examine the relative effectiveness of two types of accountability–directed and undirected–over a series of decisions regarding a hypothetical criminal suspect. Employing both organizational analysis and experimental methods, my project understands bias as not only an individual-level phenomenon, but also as something that can be shaped and influenced by the organizational context in which a particular decision process is situated. This study is one part of my dissertation project, which, at its core, seeks to answer the following question: What is the extent to which, the context in which, and the mechanisms by which accountability can serve as an effective strategy to address explicit and implicit racial bias in decision making? My project examines this question within the context of the criminal justice system and the types of decisions that prosecutors in particular make with respect to criminal cases. Project Title: The Promise of Accountability: Countering Bias in Decision Making I study how kinesthetic politics produces collective techniques-aesthetic principles of movement, abstracted from shared, everyday experience, which train people to move, and know, together.ĭepartment: Jurisprudence & Social Policy Soul Train dances also came from gay underground clubs, complicating views of hip-hop as rigidly gendered and inherently homophobic, and suggesting kinesthetic politics could queer black political consciousness. I argue black communities performed kinesthetic politics-critical consciousness of power and difference, realized through a collective sense of motion. Audiences worldwide learned these dances during weekly broadcasts of Soul Train, television’s longest running black popular music and dance show. My project forms a ‘Left’ Coast archive of 1970s Black Power, Gay Liberation, Funk, and Disco Era dance styles. My dissertation project is the first major theoretical investigation of the California foundations of hip-hop dance. Project Title: Hip-Hop Dance Is Black Power: Kinesthetic Politics and Black Performance ![]()
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