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2. Shifting legibility: racial ambiguity in the US racial hierarchy.
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Modi, Radha
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RACE identity , *ASSIMILATION of immigrants , *RACIALIZATION , *SOUTH Asians , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
Existing frameworks of assimilation and group boundaries are limited in making sense of experiences of racial ambiguity. What happens when racial groups are mistaken for other groups, and how does this phenomenon relate to the racial hierarchy? This paper investigates the on-the-ground mechanisms of racial ambiguity that formal institutions, like the Census, do not capture, yet are the lived realities for many immigrant groups. Through analysis of 120 interviews and supplemental observations, I find that the racialization of second-generation South Asians shifts between racial ambiguity and racial legibility in daily life. I present a theoretical concept – localized racialization – to reveal the transient, yet defining, racial experiences of groups residing in the racial middle. Localized racialization centres multiple factors of skin colour, intersectional status markers, and situational contexts that tether racial experiences to the local. This study's South Asian participants reveal persistent racial dynamism at the micro-interactional level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Cultivated intuition: reframing migrant responses to the "Public Charge" policy.
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Zeweri, Helena and Gardea, Eloy
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PUBLIC welfare , *IMMIGRANTS , *IMMIGRATION law , *NATURALIZATION , *IMMIGRATION policy - Abstract
In this paper, we explore Mexican and Central American migrants' decisions to refuse public benefits in response to the Trump administration's proposed change in the enforceability priorities of the "public charge" section of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Based on interviews with migrants who have experienced undocumented status and who are now in the process of becoming lawful permanent residents, we argue that decisions to pre-emptively forego public welfare benefits beginning in 2018 were not simply based on an impulsive fear-based reaction, but rather on thoughtful considerations around the human impact of immigration policies. We conceptualize migrant refusals of public benefits through the framework of what we call cultivated intuition because while these refusals are visceral responses, they are also educated inferences about how the fundamental logics of conditional citizenship within the US immigration system work to regulate migrant mobility and behaviour both at the border and within the nation-state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. The changing U.S. Latinx immigrant population: demographic trends with implications for employment, schooling, and population Integration.
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Durán, Richard
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HISPANIC Americans , *IMMIGRANTS , *EMPLOYMENT , *EDUCATIONAL attainment , *OCCUPATIONAL mobility - Abstract
This paper provides descriptive information regarding the composition of the Latinx population of the United States. I note differences in educational attainment and occupational mobility confirming findings by other authors–Latinix individuals continue to experience a stalled mode of incorporation in America. The paper also discusses policy implications, giving special attention to the changing character of the American economy. For Latinix people to advance socially and financially, they will need greater access to specialized technical skills. Without deliberate action on the part of government, the prospects seem dismal. Limited progress in educational institutions and the labour market threatens the future of children and grandchildren of Latinx immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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5. Money, museums, and memory: cultural patronage by black voluntary associations.
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Banks, Patricia A.
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MUSEUM contributions , *ENDOWMENTS , *AFRICAN American associations , *MIDDLE class , *BLACK people , *COLLECTIVE memory , *MUSEUM benefactors - Abstract
While the middle- and upper-class is typically cast as using museum patronage to support narratives that reinforce the position of dominant racial groups, this paper presents an alternative perspective. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data, I conceptually and empirically elaborate how gifts by black middle- and upper-class voluntary organizations to African American museums are enabled by racial uplift ideology and directed at nurturing counter-narratives about African Americans. As patrons of memory they aim to reconstitute recollections of African Americans by challenging master narratives of national life where they are either absent or marginalized. Gifts to black museums also support the inclusion of their own organizations and members as protagonists in this counter-memory. By turning attention to cultural patronage among black middle- and upper-class voluntary organizations, this paper demonstrates how museum patronage among elites can unsettle, rather than reinforce, master racial narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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6. Suburban battles over immigration: a case study of local day labourer policies.
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de Wilde, Marieke, Nicholls, Walter J., and Vermeulen, Floris
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DAY laborers , *FOREIGN workers , *IMMIGRANTS , *UNDOCUMENTED immigrants , *SUBURBS ,UNITED States immigration policy - Abstract
Over the past thirty years, there has been an increase in the number of immigrant day labourers in the United States. The presence of day labourers has led to numerous conflicts in municipalities. Some locals benefit from the labour performed by day labourers and believe they do no harm, while others see them as "illegal" immigrants that pose a threat to the community. For many, the legitimacy of day labourers remains uncertain, which opens a space for opponents and supporters to push for competing policies. Uncertain legitimacy and back and forth conflicts result in policies that are continuously being tugged between exclusionary and inclusionary measures. Whereas much of the literature on local immigration policies suggests that subnational governments opt for either exclusionary or inclusionary measures, this paper reveals the volatility of local immigration policies and the blurring of lines between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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7. A state's right to make race through local policy: Hispanics, immigrants and the shifting colour line.
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Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole
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SOCIAL conditions of Hispanic Americans , *LEGAL status of Hispanic Americans , *STATES' rights (American politics) , *IMMIGRANTS ,UNITED States immigration policy - Abstract
This paper analyzes legislative debate over Alabama's Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act (HB56). Taxpayers and citizens are colorblind legal categories, but the debate associated "Hispanics" with a history of racism in and beyond the state. I use three methods to analyze the debate. Content analysis identify explicit references to "Hispanics". Second, I analyze legislators' values, attitudes and beliefs. Finally, I use discourse analysis to understand how Black and white legislators raised different concerns as they remembered their own experiences and the state's racial history. These analyses indicate that legislators crafted a relational conception of responsibility that distinguished who should be in Alabama and, by extension, who had a right to citizenship and national inclusion. These debates trace to long-standing struggles between states and the federal government to determine citizenship. I conclude HB 56 reproduces legal definitions of difference that promote racial exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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8. Nested contexts of reception: Latinx identity development across a new immigrant community.
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Perez, Nicole
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ETHNIC identity of Hispanic Americans , *SOCIAL conditions of Hispanic Americans , *DEFERRED Action for Childhood Arrivals (U.S.) , *IMMIGRANTS ,UNITED States immigration policy - Abstract
This paper compares the identity formation processes of Latinx 1.5 undocumented and 2nd generation young adults in a new immigrant-receiving community. Drawing on life narrative interviews, I apply the nested contexts of reception framework to examine how processes of racialized immigrant incorporation shape variation in Latinx identity development. The findings show, first, how changes in the national legal context via Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) matter for inclusion and as a result, shifts in Latinx identities. Second, among a subset of 2nd generation respondents, the local societal hostility toward the Latinx community shaped the continual pride in their Latinx identities. Lastly, the local postsecondary institutions contributed to empowered Latinx identities. The implications of the findings suggest that, by centring the role of nested contexts in one new Latinx immigrant community we can understand the extent to which incorporation is occurring and how it shapes changes in ethnoracial identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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9. Transracial adoption: white American adoptive mothers’ constructions of social capital in raising their adopted children.
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Barn, Ravinder
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INTERRACIAL adoption , *SOCIAL capital , *FAMILIES , *ETHNICITY , *RACE identity - Abstract
In the field of adoption and child welfare, there is ongoing debate and discussion about how white adoptive parents in transracial families construct personal and social relationships and networks to promote cultural belonging and identity development in their children. In spite of this however, there is, to date, no research study that has sought to apply the notion of social capital to understand transracial adoptive families. With its exploration of how white American adoptive mothers construct social capital in raising their transracially adopted children, this paper seeks to contribute to the literature on social capital and families in general, and social capital and transracial families in particular. By drawing upon a qualitative study involving white adoptive mothers’ discursive practices, and multiplex constructions of intersectionality, the paper seeks to offer rich theoretical and empirical insights into social capital and transracial adoption to contribute to the literature in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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10. Why are Asian-Americans educationally hyper-selected? The case of Taiwan.
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Model, Suzanne
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EDUCATION of Asian Americans , *TAIWANESE Americans , *FOREIGN students , *INTERNATIONAL graduate students , *ACADEMIC achievement , *HISTORY ,UNITED States emigration & immigration ,TAIWANESE politics & government, 1945- ,UNITED States immigration policy ,20TH century United States history - Abstract
Several Asian-American groups are more educated than their non-migrant compatriots in Asia and their native-born white competitors in America. Lee and Zhou show that this "educational hyper-selectivity" has significant implications for the socio-economic success of Asian immigrants and their children. But they devote relatively little attention to its causes. This paper develops an answer in the Taiwan case. Using interviews and statistics, it shows that the Taiwanese secured an educational advantage because those arriving before 1965 consisted almost entirely of graduate students. Although they entered on student visas, prevailing political and economic conditions led them to settle in the U.S. After the passage of the Hart-Celler Act, these movers reproduced their advantage by sponsoring the arrival of kin, most of whom were also well-educated. The paper's conclusion assesses the ability of American immigration law to foster the formation of hyper-selected groups.en. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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11. Race, police, and the pandemic: considering the role of race in public health policing.
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Dunbar, Adam and Jones, Nicole E.
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RACE discrimination in medical care , *RACE discrimination , *COVID-19 pandemic , *SOCIAL distancing , *COMMUNICABLE disease control - Abstract
As cities and states implement social distancing guidelines to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, one concern is that the social construction of race, and the privileges inherent to those constructions, influence how and when to enforce social distancing. In this theoretical paper, we discuss why Black people may be at a greater risk for police intervention when not abiding by public health guidelines. We also describe the importance of considering how Whiteness, in addition to anti-Blackness, may influence how and when public health guidelines are enforced. Finally, we consider how disparate public health policing related to COVID-19 is situated in a broader historical and global context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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12. From "in-betweenness" to "positioned belongings": second-generation Palestinian-Americans negotiate the tensions of assimilation and transnationalism.
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Brocket, Tom
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ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *ETHNOLOGY research , *SOCIAL marginality , *RACIALIZATION , *DIASPORA , *PALESTINIAN Americans , *IMMIGRANTS - Abstract
In this article, I argue that second-generation migrants experience multiple tensions and exclusions as a result of the interaction of transnationalism, assimilation, diaspora and racialization in their lives. Yet, I suggest that they are reflexive actors who respond by crafting their own "positioned belongings". The paper draws on ethnographic research conducted with Palestinian-American second-generation interlocutors conducted in New Jersey and the West Bank in the wake of Donald Trump's election as President. It presents data regarding this understudied yet significant second-generation group and their relationship to their diaspora community, hostland and homeland. I argue that a feeling of exclusion and "in-betweenness" is navigated by the second-generation through discursive and material practices that centre the second-generation "self". In doing so, I give new insight into how assimilation and transnationalism interact in dynamic and plural fields and what is lost and gained amongst the children of migrants in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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13. Walking, well-being and community: racialized mothers building cultural citizenship using participatory arts and participatory action research.
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O'Neill, Maggie
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WOMEN immigrants , *CITIZENSHIP , *RIGHT of asylum , *SOCIAL justice , *SOCIAL processes ,UNITED States emigration & immigration - Abstract
Committed to exploring democratic ways of doing research with racialized migrant women and taking up the theme of “what citizenship studies can learn from taking seriously migrant mothers' experiences” for theory and practice this paper explores walking as a method for doing participatory arts-based research with women seeking asylum, drawing upon research undertaken in the North East of England with ten women seeking asylum. Together we developed a participatory arts and participatory action research project that focused upon walking, well-being and community. This paper shares some of the images and narratives created by women participants along the walk, which offer multi-sensory, dialogic and visual routes to understanding, and suggests that arts-based methodologies, using walking biographies, might counter exclusionary processes and practices, generate greater knowledge and understanding of women’s resources in building and performing cultural citizenship across racialized boundaries; and deliver on social justice by facilitating a radical democratic imaginary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2018
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14. Infrastructures of repression and resistance: how Tennesseans respond to the immigration enforcement regime.
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Conley, Meghan and Shefner, Jon
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IMMIGRATION law , *IMMIGRANTS , *SCHOOL districts , *LAW enforcement - Abstract
This paper addresses challenges faced by immigrants in two Tennessee locales, Nashville and Knoxville, focusing on Latino immigrant communities and the institutions to which they have responded during the period spanning the 2005 passage of the Sensenbrenner Bill and the Trump administration. We examine how the K-12 school system has reacted to draconian legislation and review the ways in which law enforcement affects the lives of immigrants and their children. We also investigate ways in which immigrants have circumvented or embraced political mobilization, responding to barriers and seizing occasional opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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15. Perceived advantages: the influence of urban and suburban neighbourhood context on the socialization and adaptation of Mexican immigrant young men.
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Sichling, Florian and Roth, Benjamin J.
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NEIGHBORHOODS & society , *MEXICANS , *IMMIGRANT men , *YOUNG men , *SOCIAL boundaries , *MEN -- Socialization , *PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation , *SUBURBS , *SOCIAL history , *TWENTY-first century - Abstract
Neighbourhoods are important contexts for the socialization and adaptation of immigrant youth. They provide resources and opportunities for positive interactions with peers and non-family adults. But neighbourhoods differ systemically in their demographic composition and the type and quality of resources they offer young people. In the US, there is an implicit assumption equating suburban neighbourhoods with better schools, more jobs and higher quality housing compared to urban neighbourhoods. There is however, little explicit empirical evidence of how such differences may shape the experience of immigrant youth. This gap is concerning in light of recent trends of immigrants to move directly to the suburbs. The first part of the paper reviews the literatures on immigrant adaptation and neighbourhood effects. Drawing on two qualitative studies, the second part of the paper illustrates mechanisms through which suburban and urban neighbourhoods may influence the socialization and adaptation of immigrant youth growing up in them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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16. ‘For your ears only!’ Donald Sterling and backstage racism in sport.
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Hylton, Kevin and Lawrence, Stefan
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RACISM in sports , *PRIVATE sphere , *PUBLIC sphere , *RACIAL identity of white people , *RACISM - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate how racism manifests ‘behind closed doors’ in thebackstageprivate domain. We do this with reference to recent high-profile controversies in the US and UK. In particular, we use the concepts of frontstage (public) and backstage (private) racism to unpack the extraordinary case in point of the ex-National Basketball Association franchise owner Donald Sterling. The paper concludes that though it is important for frontstage racism to be disrupted, activist scholars must be mindful of the lesser-known, and lesser-researched, clandestine backstage racism that, we argue, galvanizes more public manifestations. The Donald Sterling case is an example of how backstage racism functions and, potentially, how it can be resisted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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17. Scottish clan identities in America: symbolic or real?
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Leith, Murray Stewart and Sim, Duncan
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ETHNIC identity of Scots , *SCOTS , *SCOTTISH Americans , *CLANS , *MELTING pot (Sociology) , *DIASPORA - Abstract
This paper explores Herbert Gans's notion of symbolic ethnicity and his recent assertions that it is effectively at an end and little more than a label. We use research into Scottish-American clan associations to question this assertion and we seek to demonstrate that symbolic ethnicity appears to be alive and well within such diaspora organizations. The paper reports on a series of interviews conducted in 2014 with office bearers and members of clan associations and we use our findings to argue, along with other writers such as Steinberg that, when considering hyphenated ethnicity, it is important not to underestimate the power of the hyphen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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18. ‘Tell your own story’: manhood, masculinity and racial socialization among black fathers and their sons.
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Allen, Quaylan
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AFRICAN American fathers , *FATHER-son relationship , *MASCULINITY , *SOCIALIZATION research - Abstract
This study examines how black fathers and sons in the USA conceptualize manhood and masculinity and the racial socializing practices of black men. Drawing upon data from an ethnography on black male schooling, this paper uses the interviews with fathers and sons to explore how race and gender intersect in how black males make meaning of their gendered performances. Common notions of manhood are articulated, including independence, responsibility and providership. However, race and gender intersect in particular ways for black men. The fathers engaged in particular racial socializing practices preparing their sons for encounters with racism. Both fathers and sons adopted black existentialist perspectives, emphasizing self-determination and resilience as racially and politically motivated acts of resistance. Finally, the paper describes how the fathers modelled to their sons how to navigate racialized spaces as black men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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19. Who's in conflict? Racialization of Puerto Ricans in relation to other Latinxs in the New York Times, 2010–2015.
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Gonzalez-Sobrino, Bianca
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PUERTO Rican Americans , *RACIALIZATION , *HISPANIC Americans in mass media , *RACISM - Abstract
Puerto Rican migration to the United States has skyrocketed as a result of various political and economic factors faced in Puerto Rico. I focus my attention on how Puerto Ricans are represented in newspapers through narratives of belonging, exclusion and/or perceived threat. I seek to answer is: how are Puerto Ricans and other Latinx groups framed in relation to each other in the New York Times? To answer this query, I perform a content analysis of the paper of record, the New York Times. I argue that Puerto Ricans are not only framed as in conflict in relation to other Latinos, while also being framed as possessing some sort of colour capital that can be transferred over to particular spaces. The NYT constructs boundaries that reinforce while also transform what groups are perceived as threats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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20. Becoming Italian, becoming American: ethnic affinity as a strategy of boundary making.
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Kosta, Ervin B.
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ALBANIANS , *SOCIAL boundaries , *IMMIGRANTS , *ITALIAN Americans , *HISTORY of immigrants , *ETHNIC relations - Abstract
Based on the case study of Albanian immigrant incorporation in a Little Italy in the Bronx, this paper develops the concept of ethnic affinity. It argues that boundary-work between ethnic Italians and Albanian immigrants resulted in intergroup relations that coupled Albanian occupational incorporation with the (re)construction of respective group identities as culturally similar - and distinct from Latino and African-American groups in the neighbourhood. Engaging recent literature on ethnic boundary making, I argue that ethnic affinity constitutes a new strategy of boundary reinforcing, in addition to established strategies of boundary crossing, blurring, and shifting (Zolberg and Woon 1999; Wimmer 2008). Developed in the context of shifting ethno-racial neighbourhood makeup, this affinity between ethnic Italians and Albanian immigrants relied on American constructions of shared European whiteness, overturning contemporary divides between Italians and Albanians in Europe. Ethnic affinity provides a conceptual framework that goes beyond notions of ethnic succession, passing, or assimilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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21. Resisting and reifying racialization among urban American Indians.
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Jacobs, Michelle R.
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RACIALIZATION , *NATIVE American ethnic identity , *URBAN residence of Native Americans , *OPPRESSION , *NATIVE American reservations , *TRIBES , *AUTHENTICITY (Philosophy) - Abstract
This paper looks at the internalization and strategic utilization of racialized ideas about "Indianness" among urban American Indians (AIs). Based on 2½ years of ethnographic research in two urban AI communities, this study illustrates that urban AIs simultaneously resist and reify dominant, essentializing images of Indianness (e.g. brown skin, black eyes and full-bloodedness). Urban frequently "mixed-blood" AIs work to attach new meanings to Indianness that align with their individual experiences of Indian identity. At the same time, however, they contradict their resistance efforts with practices and statements that indicate their attachment to the racialized images they are trying to resist. As such, I argue that both internalized oppression and strategic essentialism are persistent mechanisms of racialization among urban AIs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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22. "Just black" or not "just black?" ethnic attrition in the Nigerian-American second generation.
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Emeka, Amon
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NIGERIAN Americans , *ETHNICITY , *CHILDREN of immigrants , *AMERICANIZATION , *RACIALIZATION , *RACIAL identity of Black people , *SOCIAL mobility , *HISTORY ,UNITED States emigration & immigration - Abstract
Despite the largely voluntary character of Nigerian immigration to the United States since 1970, it is not clear that their patterns of integration have emulated those of earlier immigrants who, over time, traded their specific national origins for "American" or "White" identities as they experienced upward mobility. This path may not be available to Nigerian immigrants. When they cease to be Nigerian, they may become black or African-American. In this paper, I use US Census data to trace patterns of identity in a Nigerian second-generation cohort as they advance from early school-age in 1990 to adulthood in 2014. The cohort shrinks inordinately across the period as its members cease to identify as Nigerian, and this pattern of ethnic attrition is most pronounced among the downwardly mobile - leaving us with a positively select Nigerian second generation and, perhaps, unduly optimistic assessments of Nigerian-American socioeconomic advancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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23. Gendered segmented assimilation: earnings trajectories of African immigrant women and men.
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Nawyn, Stephanie J. and Park, Julie
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AFRICANS , *GENDER & society , *AMERICANIZATION , *RACE & society , *INCOME , *WOMEN immigrants , *IMMIGRANT men - Abstract
Racial stratification in immigrant earnings has been widely influential in theories of immigrant socioeconomic assimilation, but discussions of how racial stratification might differ by gender are underdeveloped. Segmented assimilation theory attempts to explain the underlying mechanisms that cause racial disparities, but it fails to incorporate gendered dynamics like occupational sex segregation and the feminization of particular labour flows. In this paper, we address that gap. Using data from the 1990 decennial census and the American Community Survey in 2009-11, we compare the earnings of black and white African migrants to US-born blacks and whites separately by gender. Our findings indicate that black African migrant women experience no racial disadvantage in their earnings, but black African migrant men do. Our results highlight the importance of examining racial differences in immigrant earnings interacting with gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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24. Moralizing regulation: the implications of policing “good” versus “bad” immigrants.
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Andrews, Abigail L.
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UNDOCUMENTED immigrants , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *LAW enforcement , *SOCIAL integration , *TWENTY-first century , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
Recently, the US has dramatically expanded immigration enforcement. At the same time, some advocates have sought to support “good” immigrants. This paper considers how the resulting good/bad binaries affect undocumented immigrants. I examine a case study in Los Angeles, where policing intertwined with protection. Based on participant observation and interviews, I show that respondents believed state agents classified them either as “bad” criminals or “good”, immigrants. To the extent immigrants identified as “good”, they credited the US with offering them “freedom” and hoped for political inclusion. At the same time, in what I call moralizing regulation, they also performed “good” behaviour and distinguished themselves from those seen as “bad”. Some also tied “good” behaviour to femininity and “acting white”. At the extreme, they blamed other migrants for inviting state mistreatment. The effects were ambivalent: while immigrants appreciated US support, they also adopted and adapted to the state’s moral norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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25. Parenting during Ferguson: making sense of white parents' silence.
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Underhill, Megan R.
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PARENT-child relationships , *FERGUSON Protests, Ferguson, Mo., 2014 , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *WHITE people , *POSTRACIALISM , *SILENCE , *AFRICAN American social conditions , *POLICE & minorities - Abstract
This paper examines what white, middle-class parents report saying to their children about racial tension and racial protest when events like Michael Brown's death and the Ferguson protests are the top news stories. The data come from interviews with forty white, middle-class parents in 2014-15. The study results indicate that few parents recalled speaking with their children about racial tension or racial protest even when such discussions were highly visible in the news and on social media. I argue parents' silence stemmed from a desire to create a protected, worry-free childhood combined with an inability to understand how such subjects related to their white life. However, not all parents were silent. Twelve participants reported speaking with their children about these subjects via a neutral or a defensive colour-blind frame. Only two participants drew attention to issues of power and privilege. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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26. Diaspora, defeatism, and dignity: Ulster Protestant reimaginations of the self through Ulster-Scots Americanism.
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Gardner, Peter Robert
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SCOTS-Irish , *PROTESTANTS , *DEFEAT (Psychology) , *DIASPORA , *ETHNICITY & society , *DIGNITY , *COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
The notion of an American diaspora has become increasingly salient among the minority of Ulster Protestants who ascribe to the "Ulster-Scots" ethnic identity in Northern Ireland. Especially in light of the well-established conception of an Irish-American diaspora, the effort Ulster's "Protestant community" to construct and delineate a separate, non-Irish genealogical diaspora reveals much about their collective self-conceptions and aspirations. In this paper, I argue that the descriptions of Ulster-Scots-American diaspora represent both means of recasting "their" actions and ideologies as ethnically predestined, and an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity in light of palpable postbellum defeatism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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27. A critical race theory approach to black American entrepreneurship.
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Gold, Steven J
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AFRICAN American business enterprises , *ENTREPRENEURSHIP , *CRITICAL race theory , *AFRICAN American social life & customs , *AFRICAN American social conditions , *SOCIAL marginality , *AFRICAN American history - Abstract
In recent years, a growing literature has suggested that self-employment is a viable means of solving economic problems for a wide range of groups who are subject to poverty, discrimination and other disadvantages. Yet African Americans have not developed an ethnic economy large enough to solve many of their economic problems. To explore the question, this paper reviews three of the most common explanations for black Americans’ low rates of entrepreneurship: the cultural/psychological perspective, the ethnic enterprise perspective and the critical race approach. While the first two are widely accepted, neither approach identifies black Americans as a racial group, instead defining them as a cultural or ethnic group. Accordingly, neither apprehends the full impact of racial inequality in limiting black Americans’ entrepreneurial opportunities. Following a discussion of race-based obstacles to entrepreneurship, the paper concludes that the critical race view provides the most convincing explanation for black Americans’ limited entrepreneurial achievements. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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28. Colour-blindness and diversity: race frames and their consequences for white undergraduates at elite US universities.
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Warikoo, Natasha K. and de Novais, Janine
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RACE , *COLLEGE students , *FRAMES (Social sciences) , *WHITE college students , *POSTRACIALISM , *CULTURAL pluralism , *STUDENTS , *AFFIRMATIVE action programs , *HIGHER education , *ELITE (Social sciences) , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *PSYCHOLOGY , *COLLEGE student attitudes ,HARVARD University ,UNITED States social life & customs, 1971- - Abstract
In this paper we bring together the literatures on frame analysis, the meaning of race and campus racial climate to analyse the race frames – lenses through which individuals understand the role of race in society – held by white students attending elite US universities. For most, the elite university experience coincides with a strengthening or emergence of the diversity frame, which emphasizes the positive benefits of cultural diversity. Still, many also hold a colour-blind frame, which sees race groups as equivalent and racial identities as insignificant. We highlight the ambivalence that these divergent frames create for student perspectives on affirmative action and interracial contact on campus. Our findings demonstrate the mutability of race frames. We also highlight the impact that institutions may have on individuals' race frames. The paper is based on in-depth interviews with forty-seven US-born white undergraduates attending Brown University and Harvard University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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29. Making the cosmopolitan canopy in Boston's Haymarket Square.
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Kallman, Meghan Elizabeth
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CULTURAL pluralism , *COSMOPOLITANISM , *SOCIAL classes , *ETHNIC relations , *CONSUMERS , *ITALIAN Americans , *INTERETHNIC friendship , *HISTORY , *SOCIAL history ,HAYMARKET Square (Boston, Mass.) - Abstract
Using ethnographic data on Boston's Haymarket Square, this paper demonstrates how public space and a market opportunity can generate solidarity among people of different ethnicities in the form of a cosmopolitan canopy, and how a single ethnic tradition can nurture an open, public multi-ethnic environment. The paper illustrates how Haymarket vendors' treatment of ethnic and racial difference is actively deployed in the construction of new groups that largely transcend such distinctions. This article outlines the mechanisms by which a cosmopolitan canopy is sustained, and how it serves a constructive social function within the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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30. Global South cosmopolitans: the opening and closing of the USA–Mexico border for Mexican tourists.
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Sarabia, Heidy
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TOURISM , *MEXICANS , *GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *BORDER crossing , *COSMOPOLITANISM , *VISAS , *RACE & society , *SOCIAL classes , *STATUS (Law) ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
The US government has simultaneously increased efforts to close its border to unauthorized migrants, and opened the border to increasing flows of tourists from Mexico. In this paper I focus on the experiences of Mexican tourists who are able to freely cross the USA–Mexico border with US visas, given that their unique status as tourists from Mexico is an important element to consider because it organizes their daily lives, their moral understandings, and their experiences across the USA–Mexico border. I show how Global South cosmopolitans from Mexico benefit from class privilege in Mexico, but become legally vulnerable in the USA due to their racialization as Mexicans and lack of citizenship rights. This paper draws on ethnographic data and in-depth interviews collected in the border town of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico between July 2009 and August 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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31. Immigration and the election of Donald Trump: why the sociology of migration left us unprepared … and why we should not have been surprised.
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Waldinger, Roger
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LIBERALISM , *POPULISM , *SOCIAL integration , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *TWENTY-first century ,UNITED States immigration policy ,UNITED States politics & government, 2017-2021 ,UNITED States presidential elections - Abstract
Donald Trump began his campaign for the US Presidency by emphasizing the supposed dangers of immigration, a theme that he then rode to victory in November 2016 won the 2016 US Presidential election. This paper asks whether the sociology of migration can illuminate the sources of Trump’s success and after quickly reviewing the key contributions concludes not. Insight, rather, is to be found by understanding the ways in which population movements across state boundaries are a source of both international integration and national dis-integration, producing conflicts over the number, characteristics, and rights of immigrants from which liberal societies can find no escape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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32. Unsettled identities amid settled classifications? Toward a sociology of racial appraisals.
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Roth, Wendy D.
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RACE identity , *RACIAL classification , *RACE & society , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL boundaries , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *WHITE people , *SOCIAL norms - Abstract
Individuals are claiming greater scope for choice in their racial identities. But how they are seen and classified by others is not necessarily changing in a similar way.
Racial appraisals are the way that people classify the race of others, both particular individuals and larger groups. In this paper, I make a case for the study of racial appraisals as a field of sociological inquiry. I map out the different analytical levels and methodological approaches for this field and discuss how these can be used to understand observed race, norms of racial classification, and societal norms of the racial order. I present an example of how societal norms and logics of racial classification can be analysed in real time through survey research, using 2015-16 data on 866 White Americans’ reactions to Rachel Doležal’s racial identity claims. I present an agenda for studying changes in racial boundaries and classification norms through the longitudinal tracking of racial appraisals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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33. The past of others: Korean memorials in New York's suburbia.
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Matsumoto, Noriko
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COLLECTIVE memory , *WAR memorials , *DIASPORA , *KOREANS , *ASSIMILATION (Sociology) , *HISTORY - Abstract
Since the first decade of this century, public monuments to the memory of "comfort women" - women and girls forced into sexual service from the 1930s through 1945, by the Japanese Imperial Army - have been established in the United States by the Korean diaspora. This paper analyses recent memorials in the suburbs of New York that have experienced rapid immigration from Korea since the 1990s. The memorials met local resistance due to perceptions of unrelatedness to the American land. Such immigrant initiatives, however, have been supported by municipal governance. The project of inscribing a passage from East Asian history in the American context may be considered symptomatic of wider cognitive and social shifts in immigrant adaptation. Assimilation through the inclusion of immigrant heritage, along with an increasing sense of entitlement in being both "ethnic" and "American", have been integral to this contest regarding collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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34. Creole: a contested, polysemous term.
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Cope, Michael R. and Schafer, Mark J.
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CREOLES , *MULTIRACIAL people , *ETHNIC groups , *FRENCH-speaking people , *ETHNICITY , *HISTORY - Abstract
In this paper, we critically examine the polysemous term, creole, used at different times and various geographical areas to describe diverse identities, languages, peoples, ethnicities, racial heritages, and cultural artefacts. Our objective is twofold: (1) to describe the historically contested nature of the term and its connection to broader trends in defining race in the United States and (2) to suggest that a deeper understanding of racially situated terms such as creole can help to highlight the contextualized character of racial/ethnic divisions, trends, and labels. Our analysis shows that in many ways the Creole people of the United States Gulf Coast Region truly represent the "melting pot" mantra in espoused American ideology and exemplify a direct challenge to bygone racial ideologues which espoused the idea that mixing produces hybridized, impudent, weak, and sickly offspring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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35. Immigrants as settler colonists: boundary work between Dakota Indians and white immigrant settlers.
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Hansen, Karen V., Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, and Osnowitz, Debra
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IMMIGRANTS , *RACE , *ETHNICITY , *SOCIAL groups - Abstract
With territorial expansion of the US came dispossession of Native Americans, supported by policies that made white immigrants settler colonists. On Indian reservations, the federal government encouraged land-taking by allotting land to Indians and making land available to homesteaders, many of them recent immigrants. Few scholars have studied relationships between Natives and newcomers. This paper draws on the concept of boundary work to analyse intergroup relations at the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation, where white settlers (principally Scandinavians) lived alongside Dakotas. To survive and coexist, Indians and immigrants marked and interpreted boundaries of belonging and exclusion. By establishing common practices, they enacted a mutuality that both reflected and subverted racial–ethnic hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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36. Racialization and racialization research.
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Gans, Herbert J.
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RACIALIZATION , *OTHER (Philosophy) , *IMMIGRANTS , *POOR people , *WHITE people , *HISTORY , *HISTORY of immigrants ,RACE relations in the United States - Abstract
This paper advocates a greater emphasis on racialization research, and consists of observations and research questions that could add to our understanding of racialization. Such understanding will be useful and perhaps even necessary, as a variety of world events result in continuing population movements as well as economic and political crises that could increase intra and international conflicts. Any of these could lead to the further racialization of refugees, migrants, earlier immigrants and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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37. Immigration, Christian faith communities, and the practice of multiculturalism in the U.S. South.
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Nagel, Caroline and Ehrkamp, Patricia
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CHRISTIAN communities , *MULTICULTURALISM , *CULTURAL pluralism , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *WHITE people , *CROSS-cultural differences , *RELIGION , *CHRISTIANITY , *EMIGRATION & immigration ,UNITED States emigration & immigration ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
Recent scholarship has declared multiculturalism to be in retreat, yet multiculturalist discourses and practices remain salient in many realms of social reproduction. This paper explores multiculturalism in predominantly white churches in the U.S. South, a region that has seen significant demographic transformations due to immigration. Church outreach to immigrants draws on theologies that reject racial prejudice and that call for the accommodation and celebration of cultural differences. Drawing on qualitative research with pastors and congregants, this article explores how multiculturalist practice is both re-working and reinforcing existing social relationships in Christian faith communities. Multiculturalist practices, we show, disrupt racialized hierarchies long embedded in white churches. But they simultaneously leave racialized distinctions and inequalities intact, in part by maintaining separation between immigrants and non-immigrants. This case illustrates the everyday politics of multiculturalism and the ways in which the boundaries of social membership take shape in ordinary, seemingly non-political spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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38. Race, gender, and class in entrepreneurship: intersectional counterframes and black business owners.
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Wingfield, Adia Harvey and Taylor, Taura
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AFRICAN American business enterprises , *ENTREPRENEURSHIP , *FRAMES (Social sciences) , *GENDER & society , *RACE & society , *SOCIAL classes , *AFRICAN American businesspeople - Abstract
Entrepreneurship is often touted as an economic opportunity that embodies American ideals of individualism and financial gain. Yet social scientists have long noted divergent entrepreneurial outcomes among various groups. In this paper, we consider how race informs entrepreneurship for minority business owners. In particular, we focus on the ways black entrepreneurs use racial counterframes as a means of defining various aspects of the entrepreneurial experience. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of intersectional counterframes to show how black entrepreneurs understand business ownership as a response to categories that interact with not only to race, but other social group categories as well, such as gender. We argue here that these business owners use both counterframes to construct entrepreneurship not simply as a potential pathway to economic stability, but perhaps more importantly, as a response to existing inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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39. Latino/a professionals as entrepreneurs: how race, class, and gender shape entrepreneurial incorporation.
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Agius Vallejo, Jody and Canizales, Stephanie L.
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HISPANIC American businesspeople , *CAPITAL , *SOCIAL classes , *GENDER & society , *RACE & society , *ETHNICITY & society , *ETHNICITY , *ETHNIC discrimination , *TWENTY-first century , *ECONOMIC history - Abstract
This paper examines how race, class, and gender intersect to shape professional Latinos’ entrepreneurial incorporation, as observed by the conditions that prompt professional Latinos to start a business, including access to capital and experiences with discrimination. In-depth interviews with professional Latino business owners in Los Angeles reveal that individual human capital – via resources and wealth accrued through corporate careers – facilitates entrepreneurial activity. Race, ethnicity, and gender, as intersectional social group identities, combine with class to shape variegated impacts on access to capital and business experiences by gender and target market. Ethnicity is a resource for those serving the coethnic community and is more significant in shaping business ownership experiences for men who target a racially/ethnically diverse clientele, whereas gender and race are more salient for women outside the coethnic community. This study contributes to the ethnic enterprise literature by going beyond ethnicity to demonstrate that multiple dimensions of identity shape professional Latino/as’ entrepreneurial incorporation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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40. Ethnic mobilization among Korean dry-cleaners.
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Thomas, Ward F. and Ong, Paul M.
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KOREANS , *DRY cleaning industry , *HISTORY of collective action , *SOCIAL networks , *TETRACHLOROETHYLENE , *TWENTY-first century , *GOVERNMENT policy , *SOCIAL history , *SOCIETIES - Abstract
Korean immigrants in the USA rely heavily on ethnic resources to start up small businesses. Ethnic resources include business networks and knowledge, start-up capital and access to labour power, which are embedded in networks of family, friends and co-ethnics. This paper shows how Korean dry-cleaners in Southern California used ethnic resources to mobilize in response to an environmental policy initiated by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). While Korean immigrants used ethnic resources to start up dry-cleaning businesses, they found themselves working with a toxic chemical. In 2002, the AQMD required dry-cleaners in Southern California to convert to costly alternative machines by 2020. Korean dry-cleaners used ethnic-based collective action, particularly the Korean Dry Cleaning Association, as a means of fighting for regulatory concessions. They also used ethnic resources to overcome cultural and linguistic barriers to facilitate the adoption of alternative cleaning machines in compliance with the regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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41. Being black, foreign and woman: African immigrant identities in the United States.
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Showers, Fumilayo
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WOMEN immigrants , *AFRICANS , *BLACK people , *IDENTITY & society , *WEST Africans , *RACIAL identity of Black people , *NURSING & society , *RACISM , *AMERICANIZATION , *SOCIAL mobility , *ETHNICITY & society , *ETHNICITY , *PSYCHOLOGY , *RACE discrimination - Abstract
This paper contextualizes racial and ethnic identities in shaping African women’s work lives in the USA. While the literature on black immigrant groups has posited that ethnic identities are often deployed to shield black immigrants from racism, my findings indicate that for a group of African women, their racial and ethnic identities are viewed as potential sources of discrimination. As black immigrant women from middle-class backgrounds in their home countries, they also articulate experiences with racism and downward social and occupational mobility. Accounting for how race and ethnicity intersect in the lives of black immigrant groups can nuance our understanding of racial identities and highlight diversity in experiences among national and regional groups. Focusing on particular health-care settings further suggests the importance of professional contexts in shaping the identity formations of recent black immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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42. A study of race, class and naturalization: are Afro-Caribbean immigrants gaining higher degrees of assimilation than Cuban immigrants through voter registration?
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John, Mauricia
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CARIBBEAN people , *CUBANS , *AMERICANIZATION , *VOTER registration , *NATURALIZATION , *SOCIAL classes , *RACE & society , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *IMMIGRANT families , *TWENTY-first century , *IMMIGRATION law ,BLACK Caribbean people ,UNITED States citizenship - Abstract
Using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), this paper investigates the impact of race and ethnicity, class and naturalization on the voter registration and subsequent assimilation of second-generation Caribbean immigrants into the USA. Drawing from both classical and contemporary models of assimilation, I conduct a comparative analysis of Afro-Caribbeans and Cuban immigrants using voter registration as the primary measure of integration. Although the assimilation literature typically characterizes Cubans as upwardly mobile, this study shows that this is not a distinguishing feature for this group because Afro-Caribbeans are gaining higher levels of upward mobility compared to Cubans with respect to political incorporation. Findings suggest that race and ethnicity, class and citizenship status are all significant factors as both Cuban and Afro-Caribbean immigrants assimilate into the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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43. Levelling the playing field: patterns of ethnic philanthropy among Los Angeles' middle- and upper-class Latino entrepreneurs.
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Agius Vallejo, Jody
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HISPANIC American businesspeople , *SOCIAL conditions of Hispanic Americans , *SOCIAL mobility , *MIDDLE class , *UPPER class , *UNDERCLASS , *ELITE (Social sciences) , *CHARITIES , *EDUCATION of Hispanic Americans , *HISPANIC American students , *ETHNICITY , *ETHNICITY & society , *TWENTY-first century , *SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
This paper examines whether middle- and upper-class Latino entrepreneurs retain a sense of ethnic solidarity expressed through community giving that is aimed at promoting the mobility of co-ethnics. I find that middle-class Latino entrepreneurs engage in more unstructured philanthropic activities, such as volunteering their time at Latino-centric organizations or mentoring low-income Latinos. In contrast, elite Latino entrepreneurs are creating ethnic social structures that focus on education and Latino business development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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44. Little of Italy? Assumed ethnicity in a New York City neighbourhood.
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Becker, Elisabeth
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ALBANIANS , *ETHNIC identity of Italian Americans , *KOSOVARS , *ETHNICITY & society , *ETHNICITY , *AMERICANIZATION , *ETHNIC relations , *AUTHENTICITY (Philosophy) - Abstract
Utilizing the case study of Albanian Kosovars employed in the restaurant business in Little Italy, New York, this paper introduces the concept ofassumed ethnicity. This concept describes one ethnic group strategically presenting itself as another ethnic group, neither assimilating into mainstream society ethnicity nor validating place of origin ethnicity. Such assumed ethnicity is outwardly expressed (assumed) by the ethnic group in question, as well as accepted (assumed to be true) in both mainstream encounters and understandings of self. Applying and building on Goffman's theory of the front stage and back stage elucidates this phenomenon, where migrants instrumentally assume an ethnicity different from their own, in order to facilitate front-stage (mainstream) encounters. On the backstage, they expose their ‘true’ ethnicity, in the process drawing connections between Kosovo, Albania and Italy: ironically, authenticating assumed ethnicity by linking their front- and back-stage performances of everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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45. White families and race: colour-blind and colour-conscious approaches to white racial socialization.
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Hagerman, Margaret Ann
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SOCIALIZATION , *WHITE people , *RACISM , *SCHOOLS , *IDEOLOGY & society , *PRIVILEGE (Social sciences) , *POSTRACIALISM , *FAMILIES , *AMERICAN children , *SOCIAL context , *TWENTY-first century , *SCHOOLS & society , *SOCIAL history , *SOCIAL conditions of children ,RACE relations in the United States - Abstract
This paper examines the role that social context plays in mediating racial socialization in upper-middle-class white families. Outcomes of white racial socialization, as well as the process itself, depend in large part on the distinctive racial contexts designed by parents in which white children live and interact. I examine variation in white middle-school-aged children's common-sense racial knowledge and discuss the importance of exploring the social reproduction and reworking of racial ideologies and privilege in childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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46. Ethnic divisions and public goods provision, revisited.
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Gisselquist, Rachel M.
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PUBLIC goods , *ETHNIC relations , *CULTURAL pluralism , *ETHNICITY , *ETHNICITY & society , *ETHNICITY & politics , *RESEARCH methodology , *PERIODICAL articles , *MATHEMATICAL variables - Abstract
A considerable amount of recent work in political science and economics builds from the hypothesis that ethnic heterogeneity leads to poor provision of public goods, a key component of poor governance. Much of this work cites Alesina, Baqir and Easterly as providing empirical proof. This paper argues that the findings of this article have been significantly overstated. Through a simple re-analysis of the data, it shows that ethnic diversity does not straightforwardly undermine public goods provision. Rather, at least in these data, the relationship is mixed for different public goods: ethnic diversity is related to lower provision of some public goods and to higher provision of others. In some cases, there is no clear relationship. The differences between the findings presented here and those of the original article are arguably subtle, but are worth noting because of Alesina, et al.'s important contribution to the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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47. Segmented assimilation and socio-economic integration of Chinese immigrant children in the USA.
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Zhou, Min
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IMMIGRANT children , *CHINESE Americans , *SOCIAL integration , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *MIDDLE class , *UNITED States education system , *PARENT-child relationships , *ETHNICITY & society , *ETHNICITY , *HISTORY , *PARENT-child relationships & society , *EDUCATION & society , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
Research on the new second generation has paid much attention to testing one of the hypotheses posed by segmented assimilation theory – downward assimilation into America's underclass – and has neglected to examine other possible outcomes. In this paper, I address a much understudied pathway – assimilation by way of the ethnic community – based on a case study of Chinese immigrant children in the USA. I show that the children of Chinese immigrants have made inroads into mainstream America through educational achievement, not only because of the strong value their parents put on education but also because resources generated in the ethnic community help actualize that value. The Chinese American experience suggests that, in order to advance to the rank of middle-class Americans, immigrant parents have chosen the ethnic way to facilitate children's social mobility and achieved success. Paradoxically, ‘assimilated’ children have also relied on ethnicity for empowerment to fight negative stereotyping of the racialized other. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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