The Kuznets-Lewis process within the context of race and class in the U.S. economy

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romie Tribble
Keyword(s):  
Race And Class ◽  
The U.S

Desi Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhavi Mallapragada
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Immigrant Labor ◽  
South Asian Immigrants ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Indian Immigrant ◽  
Cultural Location ◽  
The U.S

This chapter explores how desi activism reimagines the Indian immigrant location and seeks to mobilize the politics of citizenship around issues of race and class. Using drumnyc.org, the homepage of New York-based organization Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), as a case study, it foregrounds a particular mode of citizenship among South Asian immigrants wherein belonging and rights are negotiated through technologies of race and immigration and through network cultures. The site represents its immigrant members as active political subjects in the U.S. homeland who craft a cultural location for themselves by engaging, resisting, and responding to the disciplinary strategies of the technologized racial state. In doing so, the activists of DRUM reveal how belonging is produced and enacted through the transnational online media and through immigrant, labor, and racial coalitions. Desi is here articulated to labor struggles, racial alliances, and immigrant collectives to produce desi networks as brown, working-class spaces of political leadership.

Privilege in the Delivery Room? Race, Class, and the Realization of Natural Birth Preferences, 2002–2013

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M Johnson ◽  
Richard M Simon
Keyword(s):  
Poisson Regression ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Natural Birth ◽  
Women’S Preferences ◽  
Childbirth Preferences ◽  
The U.S

Abstract We expand prior research on the sociology of birth by testing race and class effects on women’s capacity to realize their childbirth preferences in hospital settings. Drawing on data from the U.S. Listening to Mothers survey, we use Poisson regression and logistic regression to examine the extent to which women’s preferences are associated with actual experiences of medical intervention during perinatal care. We find that 1) less privileged women were significantly less likely to have certain interventions and had fewer interventions overall; but 2) less privileged women with natural birth preferences were significantly more likely to have certain medical interventions, compared to their race/class privileged counterparts. Thus, less privileged women simultaneously receive less and more childbirth interventions—both of which appear to be out of sync with their birthing preferences. Our results support previous research which has found race and social class inequities in medical treatment, which we interpret here as “privilege in the delivery room.”

Race, Gender, and Class in the Persistence of the Mariel Stigma Twenty Years after the Exodus from Cuba

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gastón A. Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S

The study examines the mediating effects of gender, race, and class in the Mariel Cuban immigrant adaptation process. It explores the significance of the Mariel identity by comparing the experiences of pre-1980 arrivals with those of the Mariel cohort (1980–1981) and post-Mariel arrivals (1982–1990, 1990–2000). The central question of the study is the extent to which the Marielitos' experience as a group with stigmatization and being labeled as “different” and pathological has persisted in having a different effect on their adaptation to the U.S. from that of other Cuban arrivals before and after Mariel. This study bases its definition of stigma on sociologically grounded theoretical orientation of the construction of a social identity in which a dominant group(s) attribute an undesired difference from what was anticipated to an out-group such that it leads to varieties of discrimination that reduce one's life chances.

scholarly journals Schools as workplaces: Intersectional regimes of inequality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna S. Quinn ◽  
Myra Marx Ferree
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Teachers ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Job Requirements ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Binary Model ◽  
The U.S

Joan Acker extended her 1990 brilliant and path-breaking article, “Gender, Jobs, Bodies,” to address the intersectional effects of gender, race and class as “inequality regimes” in her 2006 article of that name. This research picks up her challenge to see embodied workers holding jobs in organizations structured simultaneously and interactively by gender, race and class processes. Rather than studying a corporate regime in which the actors are managers, supervisors and workers, this study looks at the organizational interactions among teachers and paraprofessionals in one large, urban and unionized school district in the U.S. We look at skill, care and respect as three dimensions of interaction embedded in the occupational demands and specific job requirements of teachers and paraprofessionals, and some of the tensions this regime produces between the largely White teachers and the women of color who are the paraprofessionals. By highlighting the mostly invisible racialized work of supporting the moral worth of students and staff, we extend understandings of skill and care beyond a binary model.

Mass Media as Social Institution

2010 ◽  
pp. 85-118
Author(s):  
Mary Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The U.S

Communication is generally understood as a two-part process consisting of messages that convey content and the interpretation of that content by the receiver. Meanings are conveyed through words, images, and symbols. In the U.S., mass media serve as one of the most significant social institutions shaping communication since media act as gatekeepers of information using stereotypes as one of the primary tools to communicate the values of the dominant culture (Creedon, 1993; Wood, 1999). As I discussed in Chapter II, stereotypes circumscribe the boundaries around where we “belong” and what is “possible” for us in our lives. We learn both about how to view each other (which teaches us to “discriminate” and rank by category), how to view ourselves (which teaches us to internalize views of being “less than” in relation to gender, race, class, and other systems of ranking), and how to organize our society (which teaches us who belongs where). These representations have a powerful influence on the possibilities that people perceive for themselves and impact the behaviors through which they manifest these possibilities. Contemporary mass media play a pivotal role in defining the “appropriate” cultural boundaries around such factors as gender, race, and class. In Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992), Toni Morrison states: “Eddy is White, and we know he is because nobody says so” (p. 72). It is only necessary to “define” those who are outside of the dominant social center. In the end, every “aspect of our culturally mediated identity . . . is challenged or altered by the hypnotic power of mass media” (Miller, 2004, p. 2). This chapter explores these issues in the following sections: (1) mass media and its power to influence; and (2) and in-depth analysis of Wired magazine.

Dance Competition Culture and Capitalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 361-368
Author(s):  
Karen Schupp
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
The U.S

Long before SoYou Think You Can DanceandDance Moms, dance competitions focused on tap, jazz, contemporary, and ballet were alive and well throughout the U.S. Since the 1970s, dance competitions have served as venues for dance students to display their skills as both a team and as individuals, and as a means of profit for the individuals and corporations who run them. Dance competition culture operates on a “pay to dance” framework and belief system. By some estimates, for competitors who are deeply involved in dance competitions, the costs can easily top $1,000 per month.In many ways, more Americans are involved directly and indirectly in dance competitions than ever before, yet there has been little to no discussion of dance competition culture in relation to capitalism. The choice to participate in dance competitions affects the for-profit business models used in dance studios and is reflected in dance studios' tuition structures, required fees, and studio policies. Analyzing the economics of dance competition culture, which includes the organizations that offer dance competitions and dance conventions, the dance studios who train dancers for these events, and dance competition participants and their families, can provide valuable information about who has access to dance, and how that access reflects and shapes ideas about dance, gender, race, and class in the larger U.S. culture. As governmental support for dance continues to dwindle, it is timely to assess the financial, societal, and artistic impacts of increasing popularity of dance competition culture.

Historical Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Emission ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Secondary Electron Emission ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics ◽  
Primary Electrons ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mutual Agreement

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.

Variations in Surface Textures of Quartz Sand using Electron Microscopy

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Eugene J. Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Glass Industry ◽  
Glass Slide ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Surface Textures ◽  
High Silica ◽  
Sand Deposit ◽  
The U.S

Examination of sand grain surfaces from early Paleozoic sandstones by electron microscopy reveals a variety of secondary effects caused by rock-forming processes after final deposition of the sand. Detailed studies were conducted on both coarse (≥0.71mm) and fine (=0.25mm) fractions of St. Peter Sandstone, a widespread sand deposit underlying much of the U.S. Central Interior and used in the glass industry because of its remarkably high silica purity.The very friable sandstone was disaggregated and sieved to obtain the two size fractions, and then cleaned by boiling in HCl to remove any iron impurities and rinsed in distilled water. The sand grains were then partially embedded by sprinkling them onto a glass slide coated with a thin tacky layer of latex. Direct platinum shadowed carbon replicas were made of the exposed sand grain surfaces, and were separated by dissolution of the silica in HF acid.

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