NBJC Presidential Midterm Report Card
If you’re wondering what the African-American TBLG/SGL community perspective is concerning President Obama, I can say with certainly it’s vastly different from the one expressed by elements of the white GLBT one. To point that out, thought you needed to peruse the Presidential Midterm Report Card that was issued by the National Black Justice Coalition, the organization that advocates for the African descended TBLG community on issues of concern to our community. As NBJC Executive Director Sharon Lettman-Hicks pointed out in the foreword to the Presidential report card,: she wrote: NBJC believes that President Obama has not been given the appropriate credit due for the monumental strides this nation has made on his watch to advance efforts toward full equality achieved for LGBT people. In this spirit, NBJC has created a Presidential Midterm Report Card in recognition of the outstanding record-to-date of the sitting President of the United States, who
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“NBJC Presidential Midterm Report Card” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to community and organizing, while also engaging culture, identity, and representation. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “NBJC Presidential Midterm Report Card” provides dated evidence of how community and organizing was being argued in relation to culture, identity, and representation. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
“NBJC Presidential Midterm Report Card” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with community and organizing. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for culture, identity, and representation.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship diagram distinguishes sub-themes, siblings, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community25%
- 3Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict13%
- 4Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life13%
- 5Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life9%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history519
- Law and civil rights291
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization180
- Education and youth174
- Culture, identity, and representation172
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse166
- Feminism and gender politics161
- History, archives, and memory157
- Public policy and governance129
- Labor, economics, and institutions120
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