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This research note provides new evidence consistent with systemic anti-Black racism in police killings across the United States. Data come from the Mapping Police Violence Database (2013–2021). I calculate race-specific odds and probabilities that victims of police killings exhibited mental illness, were armed with a weapon, or attempted to flee the scene at the time of their killing. Multilevel, multivariable logistic regression techniques are applied to further account for the victim's age, gender, year of killing, and geographical clustering. I find that White victims are underrepresented, and Black victims overrepresented in the database. Relative to White victims, Black victims also have 60% lower odds of exhibiting signs of mental illness, 23% lower odds of being armed, and 28% higher odds of fleeing. Hispanic victims exhibit 45% lower odds of being armed relative to their White peers but are otherwise comparable. These patterns persist regardless of the victim's age, gender, year of killing, or geographical location (state, zip code, and neighborhood type). Thus, the threshold for being perceived as dangerous, and thereby falling victim to lethal police force, appears to be higher for White civilians relative to their Black or Hispanic peers. Current findings provide empirical support for political initiatives to curb lethal police force, as such efforts could help to reduce racial disparities in deaths by police nationwide.

In 1809, the trajectory of Swedish history and the identities associated with the country changed after Finland was lost to Russia. Swedish General von Döbeln explained that the loss left the nation "without mast, without sails, without compass." The research within this dissertation is not of war but of a similar sense of loss. The loss of the folk-home. Through an abductive case-study of present-day students entering higher education, the author explores the sociocultural history of Sweden, the Swedish education system, student self-efficacy beliefs, and the educational trajectories students experience on their way into higher education. This research uses a mixed methods design where a quantitative survey and qualitative narrative interviews complement each other. First, students within an introduction to university learning summer course at a large research university in Sweden completed a psychosocial survey measuring their self-efficacy beliefs about their academic skills and career decision making abilities. A statistically significant correlation was found between the two measures. Second, 11 students from the same course participated in narrative interviews where they detailed their educational trajectories between upper-secondary education and higher education. The author constructed, analyzed, mapped, and discussed each narrative using careership and social cognitive theory. Students within this study suggest that their transition between compulsory education and upper-secondary education was particularly impactful and shaped their self-efficacy beliefs and educational trajectories into higher education. Students describe a lonely process of upper-secondary education decision making at the age of 15 when they were sent to market without preparation, without support, and without the necessary tools. The majority eventually changed academic programs and schools during upper-secondary education. This led to lengthy ruptures outside of formal education that significantly delayed their progress towards graduation. Students only later decided to pursue a non-traditional trajectory into higher education after the negative self-efficacy beliefs they developed during these ruptures were challenged externally. Lastly, previous research, theory, and the empirical findings were systematically combined through an interactive process of abduction. First, the author developed the concept of the folk-market, which better represents the current neoliberal welfare model present in late modern Sweden. The folk-market must be understood as a duality. The folk-market is both a market for folk and a market of folk. Citizens are both the consumers and the consumed. Second, the author presents folk-market theory, which suggests that neoliberal reforms that embed markets within welfare systems alter transition regimes, redirect state responsibility, and distance the connections citizens have with the state. Therefore, the findings suggest that notions of statist individualism misrepresent late modern Sweden. The relationships individuals and families have with the state are now indirect and filtered through the folk-market. This study also indicates that though Swedish, neoliberal, and adolescent narratives of "autonomous youth" are unrealistic, they directly shape educational policy in Sweden. As such, many students in Sweden are left navigating a competitive folk-market without mast, without sails, without compass.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Singing Civil Rights: The Freedom Song Tradition -- 2. Dramatic Resistance: Theatrical Politics from the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter -- 3. The Poetical Is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Rights -- 4. Revolutionary Walls: Chicano/a/x Murals, Chicano/a/x Movements -- 5. Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian Movement -- 6. "We Are [Not] the World": Famine, Apartheid, and the Politics of Rock Music -- 7. ACTing UP against AIDS: The (Very) Graphic Arts in a Moment of Crisis -- 8. Novels of Environmental Justice: Toxic Colonialism and the Nature of Culture -- 9. Puppetry against Puppet Regimes: The "Battle of Seattle" and the Global Justice Movement -- 10. #Occupy All the Arts: Challenging Wall Street and Economic Inequality Worldwide -- Conclusion: The Cultural Study of Social Movements -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

How do we make sense of digitizing cultures? : some ways of thinking through the culture-technology matrix -- How is the digital world made? : the designer/worker/user production cycle -- What's new about digitized identities? : mobile bodies, online disguise, cyberbullying and virtual communities -- Has digital culture killed privacy? : social media, governments and digitized surveillance -- Is everybody equal online? digitizing gender, ethnicity, dis/ability and sexual orientation -- Sexploration and/or sexploitation? : digitizing desire -- Tools for democracy or authoritarianism? : digitized politics and the post-truth era -- Are digital games making us violent, or will they save the world? virtual play, real impact -- Are students getting dumber as their phones get smarter? : e-learning, edutainment, and the future of knowledge sharing -- Who in the world is online? : digital inclusions and exclusions -- Conclusion: will robots and ais take over the world? hope, hype and possible digitized futures -- Works cited -- Glossary -- Index

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