at Boulder. My thanks to Katharine Silbaugh for inviting me to participate in this Symposium. I a... more at Boulder. My thanks to Katharine Silbaugh for inviting me to participate in this Symposium. I am grateful for the critical comments I received from Eric Margolis. 1. See Ms. Foundation for Women, Take Our Daughters To Work, at daughterstowork.org (last visited Mar. 15, 2001). that recent cuts have had on women's lives).
contents vii 6.1 CRT's family tree. 6.2 Community cultural wealth (adapted from Oliver and Shapir... more contents vii 6.1 CRT's family tree. 6.2 Community cultural wealth (adapted from Oliver and Shapiro 1995). 13.1 Differences among five-and six-year-olds, using infant health and development program data. 13.2 Asian and White eighth-graders read about the level of Black and Hispanic twelfth-graders. 13.3 More parity in college attendance than in obtaining degrees. 13.4 Proposed model for explaining racial differences in educational achievement. 13.5 Explanatory power of SES (socioeconomic status) vs. model including historical racial inequalities. 13.6 Economic differences by race. 13.7 As racial inequality grows so does education gap. 13.8 Pedagogy: time and words taught. 13.9 School processes: Discipline (African Americans' twelfth-grade test-score performance relative to that of Whites, by disciplinary perception). 13.10 Homework by race.
something that can just be assessed in a matter of minutes in a self-help book or on a talk show.... more something that can just be assessed in a matter of minutes in a self-help book or on a talk show. And if you think that men aren't included here or don't play a role, you are mistaken: The men in women's livesgrandfathers, fathers, friends, brothers, bosses, boyfriends, lovers, husbands-have a powerful impact on whether or not women conceive children. Virtually no research has been done on the male influence on a female's maternity, even though some sociologists, including Kathleen Garson, have observed that it is the most important influence of all.
Tabitha Walrond "was charged with recklessly causing Tyler's death by failing to nouris... more Tabitha Walrond "was charged with recklessly causing Tyler's death by failing to nourish him adequately and failing to obtain prompt medical attention."2 This recent court case in the Bronx underscores the contradiction embedded in the myths of independence, autonomy, and ...
Whether they know it or not, Clinton and Princela Bautista, two children growing up in a small to... more Whether they know it or not, Clinton and Princela Bautista, two children growing up in a small town in the Philippines apart from their two migrant parents, are the recipients of an international pledge. It says that a child "should grow iip in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love, and understanding," and "not be separated from his or her parents against their will..." Part of Article 9 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1959), these words stand now as a fairy-tale ideal, the promise of a shield between children and the costs of globalization. At the moment this shield is not protecting the Bautista family from those human costs. In the basement bedroom of her employer's home in Washington, D.C., Rowena Bautista keeps four pictures on her dresser: two of her own children, back in Camiling, a Philippine farming village, and two of children she hás cared for as a nanny in the United States. The pictures of her own children, Clinton and Princela, are from five years ago. As she recently told Wall Street Journal repórter Robert Frank, the recent photos "remind me how much I've missed."1 She hás missed the last two Christmases,
810 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW [Vol. 52:809 lem."3 Perspectives on cleaning and childcare services do... more 810 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW [Vol. 52:809 lem."3 Perspectives on cleaning and childcare services done in private households emerging from The Nanny Diaries are similar to recent public exposures of the working conditions and paid arrangements for childcare and housework in upper-...
VIOLATION OF LATINO CIVIL RIGHTS RESULTING FROM INS AND LOCAL POLICE'S USE OF RACE, CULTURE ... more VIOLATION OF LATINO CIVIL RIGHTS RESULTING FROM INS AND LOCAL POLICE'S USE OF RACE, CULTURE AND CLASS PROFILING: THE CASE OF THE CHANDLER ROUNDUP IN ARIZONA Mary Romero Marwah Serag' I. Overview of the Chandler Roundup 81 II. ...
State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality: From El Bandido to G... more State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality: From El Bandido to Gang Member Mary Romero' D: 911 what is your emergency? С: Did [sic] you speak Spanish? D: No, do you speak English? С: No. D: Do you have an emergency? С: Police ...
A look at the Trump administration’s attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, and unauthorized immigrants an... more A look at the Trump administration’s attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, and unauthorized immigrants and how they’ve undermined longstanding policy and public perception.
This study, carried out in a barrio neighborhood near the U.S.-Mexican border, uses a structural ... more This study, carried out in a barrio neighborhood near the U.S.-Mexican border, uses a structural violence perspective to understand the extent of and individual determinants of mistreatment of residents by immigration authorities. Results indicate that barrio residents are more likely than the U.S. population in general to experience mistreatment at the hands of state authorities. Multivariate analyses indicate that authorities dole out mistreatment especially to people who appear Mexican. Educated Latinos are also frequent targets of mistreatment, and being a native-born or naturalized U.S. citizen offers no protection. These results suggest an institutional pattern of state violence in barrios structured more by racism and nativism than by immigration status. In this study, we use a structural violence perspective as well as alternative views of violence to frame empirical analyses around two questions. First, how frequently are barrio residents mistreated by immigration officials? This question allows us to understand whether or not state authorities use violence more often in dealing with barrio residents than with U.S. residents generally. Second, which residents of barrios are most likely to be mistreated? This question gives us insight into the comparative strength of two structures of political and theoretical importance: racism/nativism versus immigration law/enforcement. That is, we compare whether mistreatment varies more with ethno-racial characteristics or with residency and citizenship status. To answer these two questions, we use unique data from two independent random samples of residents of the largely Latino municipality of South Tucson, Arizona, located near the Arizona-Mexico border. In its small size (5,000 residents, one square mile of land), it resembles a neighborhood. The samples, one from 1993 and one from 2003, include data on V34-1.indb 93 1/27/09 6:56 PM self-reported victimization by immigration authorities; demographic data on class, ethnicity, age, and legal status; and information about routine activities. After a discussion of theoretical perspectives, we describe our methods and results. Finally, we consider some theoretical and policy implications of our findings. The theory of structural violence maintains that the extent of violence and who suffers violence in a particular region or place can be understood by examining local social and cultural structures . The definition of violence includes physical violence, of course, but also actions that deprive people of basic human rights such as health care, equal treatment before the law, economic well-being, dignity, and respect. Social structures are legal, economic, and political processes that pattern human interaction. Recent examples of social structures that perpetrate violence include new laws enacted in the 1990s and especially after September 11, 2001, that intensified the surveillance, detention, and exclusion of noncitizens. Before these laws blurred the boundaries between immigration law and criminal law, "only certain serious felony convictions subjected noncitizens to detention and deportation, such as murder, drug and firearms trafficking" (Miller 2005, 84). Cultural structures include the media and other everyday pat ruBio goldsMith is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He studies the U.S.-Mexico border and the long-term consequences and causes of ethno-racial segregation. He has a forthcoming article in Social Forces, "Schools, Neighborhoods, or Both? Racial and Ethnic Segregation and Educational Attainment.
2005] REVISITING OUTCRITS WITH A SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Mary Romero* I. Introduction IN his boo... more 2005] REVISITING OUTCRITS WITH A SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Mary Romero* I. Introduction IN his book The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills acknowledged the overwhelming sense of feeling trapped and the tendency to focus on individual change, responsibility and ...
This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, f... more This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association’s vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In the past half-century, scholar-activists, working-class sociologists, sociologists of color, women sociologists, indigenous sociologists, and LGBTQ sociologists have similarly been marginalized and discouraged from pursuing social justice issues and applied research within our discipline. Being ignored by academic sociology departments has led them to create or join homes in interdisciplinary programs and other associations that embrace applied and scholar-activist scholarship. I offer thoughts about practices that the discipline and Associat...
1046 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LA W REVIEW [Vol. 5 3:1045 tions of class-based behavior within the home... more 1046 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LA W REVIEW [Vol. 5 3:1045 tions of class-based behavior within the home.1 After excusing my behavior as one of those Chicano radicals who identify with los de abajo (the downtrodden), he began to relate a litany of problems he exper-ienced ...
I. INTERSECTIONALITY AND MOTHERING DISCOURSES .................................. 1363 A. Domestic... more I. INTERSECTIONALITY AND MOTHERING DISCOURSES .................................. 1363 A. Domesticity and M otherhood ............................................................ ... C. Race, Ethnicity, Class, Citizenship, and Unfit Mothers .................... 1367 II. CONSTRUCTING ANTI-IMMIGRANT CAMPAIGN ...
Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to c... more Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to characterize the racial affronts minorities encounter in the criminal justice system, particularly in the War on Drugs and in the use of racial profiling. Building on LatCrit and critical race scholars, I analyze the function that immigration raids serve as a policing practice that maintains and reinforces subordinated status among working-class Latino citizens and immigrations. Using a case study approach, I analyze a five day immigration raid in 1997. locally referred to as the “Chandler Roundup.” Immigration policing constructed citizenship as visibly inscribed on bodies in specific urban spaces rather than “probable cause.” The Chandler Roundup fits into a larger pattern of immigration law enforcement practices that produce harms of reduction and repression and place Mexican Americans at risk before the law and designate them as second-class citizens with inferior rights. Latino resid...
at Boulder. My thanks to Katharine Silbaugh for inviting me to participate in this Symposium. I a... more at Boulder. My thanks to Katharine Silbaugh for inviting me to participate in this Symposium. I am grateful for the critical comments I received from Eric Margolis. 1. See Ms. Foundation for Women, Take Our Daughters To Work, at daughterstowork.org (last visited Mar. 15, 2001). that recent cuts have had on women's lives).
contents vii 6.1 CRT's family tree. 6.2 Community cultural wealth (adapted from Oliver and Shapir... more contents vii 6.1 CRT's family tree. 6.2 Community cultural wealth (adapted from Oliver and Shapiro 1995). 13.1 Differences among five-and six-year-olds, using infant health and development program data. 13.2 Asian and White eighth-graders read about the level of Black and Hispanic twelfth-graders. 13.3 More parity in college attendance than in obtaining degrees. 13.4 Proposed model for explaining racial differences in educational achievement. 13.5 Explanatory power of SES (socioeconomic status) vs. model including historical racial inequalities. 13.6 Economic differences by race. 13.7 As racial inequality grows so does education gap. 13.8 Pedagogy: time and words taught. 13.9 School processes: Discipline (African Americans' twelfth-grade test-score performance relative to that of Whites, by disciplinary perception). 13.10 Homework by race.
something that can just be assessed in a matter of minutes in a self-help book or on a talk show.... more something that can just be assessed in a matter of minutes in a self-help book or on a talk show. And if you think that men aren't included here or don't play a role, you are mistaken: The men in women's livesgrandfathers, fathers, friends, brothers, bosses, boyfriends, lovers, husbands-have a powerful impact on whether or not women conceive children. Virtually no research has been done on the male influence on a female's maternity, even though some sociologists, including Kathleen Garson, have observed that it is the most important influence of all.
Tabitha Walrond "was charged with recklessly causing Tyler's death by failing to nouris... more Tabitha Walrond "was charged with recklessly causing Tyler's death by failing to nourish him adequately and failing to obtain prompt medical attention."2 This recent court case in the Bronx underscores the contradiction embedded in the myths of independence, autonomy, and ...
Whether they know it or not, Clinton and Princela Bautista, two children growing up in a small to... more Whether they know it or not, Clinton and Princela Bautista, two children growing up in a small town in the Philippines apart from their two migrant parents, are the recipients of an international pledge. It says that a child "should grow iip in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love, and understanding," and "not be separated from his or her parents against their will..." Part of Article 9 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child (1959), these words stand now as a fairy-tale ideal, the promise of a shield between children and the costs of globalization. At the moment this shield is not protecting the Bautista family from those human costs. In the basement bedroom of her employer's home in Washington, D.C., Rowena Bautista keeps four pictures on her dresser: two of her own children, back in Camiling, a Philippine farming village, and two of children she hás cared for as a nanny in the United States. The pictures of her own children, Clinton and Princela, are from five years ago. As she recently told Wall Street Journal repórter Robert Frank, the recent photos "remind me how much I've missed."1 She hás missed the last two Christmases,
810 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW [Vol. 52:809 lem."3 Perspectives on cleaning and childcare services do... more 810 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW [Vol. 52:809 lem."3 Perspectives on cleaning and childcare services done in private households emerging from The Nanny Diaries are similar to recent public exposures of the working conditions and paid arrangements for childcare and housework in upper-...
VIOLATION OF LATINO CIVIL RIGHTS RESULTING FROM INS AND LOCAL POLICE'S USE OF RACE, CULTURE ... more VIOLATION OF LATINO CIVIL RIGHTS RESULTING FROM INS AND LOCAL POLICE'S USE OF RACE, CULTURE AND CLASS PROFILING: THE CASE OF THE CHANDLER ROUNDUP IN ARIZONA Mary Romero Marwah Serag' I. Overview of the Chandler Roundup 81 II. ...
State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality: From El Bandido to G... more State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality: From El Bandido to Gang Member Mary Romero' D: 911 what is your emergency? С: Did [sic] you speak Spanish? D: No, do you speak English? С: No. D: Do you have an emergency? С: Police ...
A look at the Trump administration’s attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, and unauthorized immigrants an... more A look at the Trump administration’s attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, and unauthorized immigrants and how they’ve undermined longstanding policy and public perception.
This study, carried out in a barrio neighborhood near the U.S.-Mexican border, uses a structural ... more This study, carried out in a barrio neighborhood near the U.S.-Mexican border, uses a structural violence perspective to understand the extent of and individual determinants of mistreatment of residents by immigration authorities. Results indicate that barrio residents are more likely than the U.S. population in general to experience mistreatment at the hands of state authorities. Multivariate analyses indicate that authorities dole out mistreatment especially to people who appear Mexican. Educated Latinos are also frequent targets of mistreatment, and being a native-born or naturalized U.S. citizen offers no protection. These results suggest an institutional pattern of state violence in barrios structured more by racism and nativism than by immigration status. In this study, we use a structural violence perspective as well as alternative views of violence to frame empirical analyses around two questions. First, how frequently are barrio residents mistreated by immigration officials? This question allows us to understand whether or not state authorities use violence more often in dealing with barrio residents than with U.S. residents generally. Second, which residents of barrios are most likely to be mistreated? This question gives us insight into the comparative strength of two structures of political and theoretical importance: racism/nativism versus immigration law/enforcement. That is, we compare whether mistreatment varies more with ethno-racial characteristics or with residency and citizenship status. To answer these two questions, we use unique data from two independent random samples of residents of the largely Latino municipality of South Tucson, Arizona, located near the Arizona-Mexico border. In its small size (5,000 residents, one square mile of land), it resembles a neighborhood. The samples, one from 1993 and one from 2003, include data on V34-1.indb 93 1/27/09 6:56 PM self-reported victimization by immigration authorities; demographic data on class, ethnicity, age, and legal status; and information about routine activities. After a discussion of theoretical perspectives, we describe our methods and results. Finally, we consider some theoretical and policy implications of our findings. The theory of structural violence maintains that the extent of violence and who suffers violence in a particular region or place can be understood by examining local social and cultural structures . The definition of violence includes physical violence, of course, but also actions that deprive people of basic human rights such as health care, equal treatment before the law, economic well-being, dignity, and respect. Social structures are legal, economic, and political processes that pattern human interaction. Recent examples of social structures that perpetrate violence include new laws enacted in the 1990s and especially after September 11, 2001, that intensified the surveillance, detention, and exclusion of noncitizens. Before these laws blurred the boundaries between immigration law and criminal law, "only certain serious felony convictions subjected noncitizens to detention and deportation, such as murder, drug and firearms trafficking" (Miller 2005, 84). Cultural structures include the media and other everyday pat ruBio goldsMith is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He studies the U.S.-Mexico border and the long-term consequences and causes of ethno-racial segregation. He has a forthcoming article in Social Forces, "Schools, Neighborhoods, or Both? Racial and Ethnic Segregation and Educational Attainment.
2005] REVISITING OUTCRITS WITH A SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Mary Romero* I. Introduction IN his boo... more 2005] REVISITING OUTCRITS WITH A SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Mary Romero* I. Introduction IN his book The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills acknowledged the overwhelming sense of feeling trapped and the tendency to focus on individual change, responsibility and ...
This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, f... more This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association’s vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In the past half-century, scholar-activists, working-class sociologists, sociologists of color, women sociologists, indigenous sociologists, and LGBTQ sociologists have similarly been marginalized and discouraged from pursuing social justice issues and applied research within our discipline. Being ignored by academic sociology departments has led them to create or join homes in interdisciplinary programs and other associations that embrace applied and scholar-activist scholarship. I offer thoughts about practices that the discipline and Associat...
1046 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LA W REVIEW [Vol. 5 3:1045 tions of class-based behavior within the home... more 1046 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LA W REVIEW [Vol. 5 3:1045 tions of class-based behavior within the home.1 After excusing my behavior as one of those Chicano radicals who identify with los de abajo (the downtrodden), he began to relate a litany of problems he exper-ienced ...
I. INTERSECTIONALITY AND MOTHERING DISCOURSES .................................. 1363 A. Domestic... more I. INTERSECTIONALITY AND MOTHERING DISCOURSES .................................. 1363 A. Domesticity and M otherhood ............................................................ ... C. Race, Ethnicity, Class, Citizenship, and Unfit Mothers .................... 1367 II. CONSTRUCTING ANTI-IMMIGRANT CAMPAIGN ...
Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to c... more Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to characterize the racial affronts minorities encounter in the criminal justice system, particularly in the War on Drugs and in the use of racial profiling. Building on LatCrit and critical race scholars, I analyze the function that immigration raids serve as a policing practice that maintains and reinforces subordinated status among working-class Latino citizens and immigrations. Using a case study approach, I analyze a five day immigration raid in 1997. locally referred to as the “Chandler Roundup.” Immigration policing constructed citizenship as visibly inscribed on bodies in specific urban spaces rather than “probable cause.” The Chandler Roundup fits into a larger pattern of immigration law enforcement practices that produce harms of reduction and repression and place Mexican Americans at risk before the law and designate them as second-class citizens with inferior rights. Latino resid...
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