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Qualitative sociology

Qualitative Sociology is dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life. The journal offers both theoretical and analytical research, and publishes manuscripts based on research methods such as interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, content analysis and others which do not rely primarily on numerical data.
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A Serial Ethnographer: An Interview with Gary Alan Fine
A Serial Ethnographer: An Interview with Gary Alan Fine<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category INTERVIEW</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9144-2</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Roberta Sassatelli, Università Degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici Via Conservatorio 7 20122 Milan Italy</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
African American Men and the Experience of Employment Discrimination
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  The economic marginalization of African American men has been studied in a variety of contexts, from trade union exclusion, to joblessness, to disparate wages and mobility. Discrimination is often inferred as an influential mechanism, yet seldom directly examined in its own right. Drawing on a unique sample of verified workplace discrimination cases, this article analyzes forms and processes of discrimination that African American men face in employment. Our results denote the prevalence of discriminatory firing, with on-going racial harassment and discriminatory promotional and hiring practices also quite evident. In-depth immersion into case materials highlights the centrality of racial stereotyping and significant discretion on the part of gatekeepers within organizational environments-discretion in the use of “soft skills” criteria to exclude and debilitate mobility, and in selective (or even targeted) use of seemingly neutral organizational policies and sanctions. Moreover, harassment on the job—something that conventional workplace inequality research has overlooked—is quite problematic and well-represented in these data. We conclude by discussing the implications of our results for the conceptualization of inequality reproduction and that pertaining to race, status, and the workplace in particular. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9142-4</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Sherry N. Mong, Department of Sociology 238 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus OH 43210 USA</li><li>Vincent J. Roscigno, Department of Sociology 238 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus OH 43210 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
God can be Funny: Repertoires, Religion & Resistance
God can be Funny: Repertoires, Religion & Resistance<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category REVIEW ESSAY</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9143-3</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Louis Edgar Esparza, Stony Brook University Department of Sociology Stony Brook NY 11794 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Salvaging Decency: Mobile Home Residents’ Strategies of Managing the Stigma of “Trailer” Living
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This paper is based on 45 ethnographic interviews conducted with residents of mobile home communities in West Central Florida between 2005 and 2008. It investigates their strategies of managing the stigma that is commonly associated with living in a mobile home. Informants routinely encounter negative stereotypes regarding their “trailer” home, community, and lifestyle in public discourse and personal interactions, and consequently have developed ways of salvaging their decency. My analysis of these strategies particularly emphasizes two versions of distancing, here called “bordering” and “fencing,” as examples of symbolic boundary work. Other techniques discussed include ignoring, passing, humoring, resisting, normalizing, upstaging, and blaming. Throughout the paper, I argue that mobile home residents’ ways of salvaging decency are both similar and different compared to how other disparaged groups deal with stigmatization. The conclusion discusses broader sociological implications of the research in enhancing our understanding of the experience of stigmatization, folk conceptions of decency, symbolic and social differentiation, as well as race and class dynamics. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9139-z</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Margarethe Kusenbach, University of South Florida Department of Sociology 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CPR 107 Tampa FL 33620 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/n1457p145x57/">Volume 32, Number 4 / December, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Gender-as-Knowledge and AIDS in Africa: A Cautionary Tale
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This article is based on my experience with translating research about AIDS, masculinity and risk in Malawi into the public sphere. My work was misinterpreted as demonstrating that African men want to get AIDS because they think it reaffirms their masculinity. I use the concept of gender-as-knowledge to organize my analysis of this response. I argue that media representations of AIDS in 21st century Africa are filtered through a centuries-old prism of racialized gender knowledge, in which African men are presumed to be irrational, sexually voracious, and uninhibited. This article concludes with cautions about the complexities of translating social research into the public sphere. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9140-6</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Amy Kaler, University of Alberta Department of Sociology 5-15 Tory, Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2H4</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
The Reproduction of Inequalities Through Emotional Capital: The Case of Socializing Low-Income Black Girls
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  The concept of emotional capital suggests that adults transfer emotion management skills to children in ways that are consequential for the social reproduction of inequalities. Using ethnographic data from a popular after-school program, this study analyzes the emotional capital transmitted to low-income black girls by staff. They passed on four aspects of emotional capital: stifling attitude, being emotionally accountable for peers, sympathizing with adult authority figures, and emotional distancing from cultural “dysfunction.” Staff intended to teach girls to manage their emotions as a way to counteract racism, but the socialization largely promoted emotional deference, thereby reinforcing racialized, classed, and gendered ideologies. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9141-5</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Carissa M. Froyum, University of Northern Iowa Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology Cedar Falls Iowa 50614-0513 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
“It May Be Her Eggs But It’s My Blood”: Surrogates and Everyday Forms of Kinship in India
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This ethnographic study of commercial gestational surrogacy in a small clinic in western India introduces the concept of “everyday forms of kinship”—kinship ties as the product of conscious everyday strategy, and, at times, as a vehicle for survival and/or resistance. The surrogates’ constructions of kinship as a daily process disrupt kinship theories that are based solely on biology. So, too, do they disrupt the patrilineal assumptions made in studies of Indian kinship. Kinship ties instead find their basis in shared bodily substances (blood and breast milk) and shared company, as well as in the labor of gestation and of giving birth. By emphasizing connections based on shared bodily substance and by de-emphasizing the ties the baby has with its genetic mother and the men involved in surrogacy (the genetic fathers and the surrogates’ husbands), the surrogates challenge established hierarchies in kin relationships—where genes and the male seed triumph above all. Simultaneously, by forming kinship ties with the baby, the intended mother, and other surrogates residing with them, surrogates in India form ties that cross boundaries based on class, caste and religion and sometimes even race and nation. By focusing on the notions of blood (shared substance) and sweat (labor) as basis for making kinship claims, this study both extends anthropological literature that emphasizes the non-procreative basis of kinship and feminist works that denaturalize kinship ties and make visible the labor involved in forming kinship ties and maintaining a family. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9138-0</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Amrita Pande, University of Massachusetts Department of Sociology Amherst MA 01003 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/n1457p145x57/">Volume 32, Number 4 / December, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Ambivalence and Control: State Action Against the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  Models that purport to explain the interplay between dissidents and the state generally assert, either explicitly or implicitly, that the path from state interests to action to outcomes is a linear one. Using the case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina, I argue that state efforts to exert social control upon a perceived threat are shaped by a range of internal and external contingencies. In particular, I undertake a comparative analysis of two state agencies to demonstrate how a particular mechanism—ambivalence, here conceptualized as the relational consequence of a mismatch between organizational culture and organizational goals—leads to distinct, and sometimes heterogeneous, actions and outcomes not directly traceable to organizational mandates. Findings lend insight into how endogenous organizational processes shape contentious political outcomes in potentially divergent ways. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9137-1</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>David Cunningham, Brandeis University Department of Sociology MS 071 Waltham MA 02454-9110 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/n1457p145x57/">Volume 32, Number 4 / December, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
There Comes a Time: Biography and the Founding of a Movement Organization
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  The social movement literature lacks a historically sensitive analysis of pathways to founding and leading a movement organization. I connect biography and history to explain the timing and form of organizational emergence. I show how Robert Welch’s founding of the conspiratorial John Birch Society was pre-dated by moral shocks, a supportive culture and social network, experience organizing people in committees, as well as some dumb luck (in the form of fortuitous timing), all of which grew his reputation in the latent conservative movement. A national reputation allowed him to gather resources and unite regionally dispersed radical rightists into a coherent national organization. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9135-3</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Randle J. Hart, Southern Utah University Department of History and Sociology 351 West University Boulevard, CN 225 Cedar City UT 84720 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Children’s Autonomy and Responsibility: An Analysis of Childrearing Advice
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  Employing qualitative content analysis of 300 childrearing advice articles from Parents magazine, this paper maps historical changes in the depiction of parental authority and children’s autonomy. This popular text reveals increased autonomy for children in their private self-expression, especially in regard to activities of daily living, personal appearance, and defiance of parents. However, the magazine also portrays children’s diminished public autonomy as revealed through increasingly restricted freedom of movement and substantially delayed acceptance of meaningful responsibilities. An appreciation of popular childrearing advice as a measure of individualistic cultural values thus requires an understanding of larger social changes that shift attention from public participation toward private self-expression. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9136-2</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Markella B. Rutherford, Wellesley College Department of Sociology 106 Central St. Wellesley MA 02481 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/n1457p145x57/">Volume 32, Number 4 / December, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Authenticity, Performative Action, and the White American Complaint
Authenticity, Performative Action, and the White American Complaint<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category REVIEW ESSAY</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9132-6</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Rebecca R. Scott, University of Missouri Department of Sociology 312 Middlebush Hall Columbia MO 65211-6100 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2r7881grq36/">Volume 32, Number 3 / September, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
“Me and the Law is Not Friends”: How Former Prisoners Make Sense of Reentry
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This article examines how former prisoners of color conceptualize their political, social, and economic futures and how these conceptualizations relate to the racialized social structural obstacles encountered upon reentry and decisions to re-engage criminal labor. I find that, presented with similar post-prison challenges, excarcerated men take several approaches when reentering society. I argue that the differences among their approaches lie in their varying interpretations of how they can act as individuals against and within their social structural limitations. Their decisions to rejoin or forfeit participation in criminal economies are thus shaped by experiences confronting the limitations of material conditions but also emerge from their critiques of racialized structures. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9134-4</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Lucia Trimbur, John Jay College/ CUNY Department of Sociology 899 Tenth Avenue New York NY 10019 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2r7881grq36/">Volume 32, Number 3 / September, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
New Hobos or Neo-Romantic Fantasy? Urban Ethnography beyond the Neoliberal Disconnect
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This article describes an anomalous social space within the field of homelessness in San Francisco, that of “pro” recyclers, homeless men who spend much of their time collecting recyclables for redemption. Unlike the panhandlers, broken shelter-dwellers and small-time hustlers of San Francisco’s Tenderloin and other skid row zones, the recyclers orient much of their existence around work. By working within a unique economic niche provided by the state-supported recycling industry, and by drawing on support from sympathetic residents and advocates, the recyclers create an unusual homeless subculture which, as they themselves argue, has more than a little in common with the hobo jungles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To interrogate the sociological (and political) implications of this case study I use Loïc Wacquant’s eloquent manifesto against sociological “neo-romanticism.” While agreeing with some of Wacquant’s analysis, I argue that his emphasis on the moralism of contemporary urban ethnographers blinds him to the very real concerns with morality and ethics among poor people themselves. The recyclers’ concerns with mutual respect and the pleasures of labor represent, I believe, not post hoc justifications of desperate survival strategies, but a dogged, often passionate collective effort to create a truly different experience and understanding of homelessness itself. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9133-5</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Teresa Gowan, University of Minnesota Department of Sociology 909 Social Sciences Bldg, 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis MN 55455 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2r7881grq36/">Volume 32, Number 3 / September, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
“Which One Is Yours?”: Children and Ethnography
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This paper explores roles that children play in ethnographic research. Based on the limited literature on children in the field, and drawing on examples from ethnographies across disciplines, I identify four roles for children: 1) as “wedges,” or as instrumentally important in helping adult ethnographers gain access in various ways; 2) as collaborators; 3) as objects of study; and 4) as subjects of study. I also discuss the ways in which these roles illuminate key methodological issues in ethnography, like reflexivity, ethics, and agency. The paper synthesizes and integrates previously disconnected research on the presence of children in the field with ethnographies in which children and childhood are the topics of research. I draw on my own fieldwork experiences for further illustration. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9130-8</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Hilary Levey, Department of Sociology Princeton University Wallace Hall Princeton NJ 08544 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2r7881grq36/">Volume 32, Number 3 / September, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Trauma and Origins: Post-Holocaust Genealogists and the Work of Memory
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  In the 1970s, as children of Holocaust survivors reached adulthood, many began to excavate, piece together, and re-fashion their fractured family histories. This movement achieved momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, as the so-called “second generation” moved into middle age. Drawing from data gleaned from participant observation on a listserv for children of survivors and from interviews, I argue that those who engage in post-Holocaust genealogy are searching for coherent narratives that place their own origin in the context of the families into which they were born. By seeking, borrowing from and selectively appropriating traces of the past, they are using them as raw material in the production of new stories about the past and, by implication, the present. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9131-7</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Arlene Stein, Rutgers University Department of Sociology New Brunswick NJ 08854 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2r7881grq36/">Volume 32, Number 3 / September, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Creating Community: Latina Nannies in a West Los Angeles Park
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  Drawing on 1 year of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles, this article examines how Latina nannies create workplace solidarity in a public park. This article reveals how nannies use public spaces in the neighborhoods in which they work to establish ties similar to co-worker relations in other settings. This paper demonstrates how nannies create a community at the park by incorporating park staff into their activities, reinforcing group values such as sharing and reciprocity, and distinguishing themselves from their employers. Adding to previous research which highlights the atomization and stigmatization that comes with domestic employment, this article shows how nannies create co-worker relationships that are buffers against unfavorable job conditions such as solitary work settings and unappreciative employers. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9129-1</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Amada Armenta, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Sociology 264 Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza Los Angeles CA 90095 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2r7881grq36/">Volume 32, Number 3 / September, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Erratum</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9128-2</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Nancy Romero-Daza, University of South Florida Department of Anthropology 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC 107 Tampa FL 33620 USA</li><li>Andrea Freidus, Michigan State University Department of Anthropology 354 Baker Hall East Lansing MI 48824 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l47407612638/">Volume 32, Number 2 / June, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Professional Women, Good Families: Respectable Femininity and the Cultural Politics of a “New” India
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This study of professional software women in urban India examines practices of respectable femininity and discourses of the Indian family to understand the changing and abiding aspects of a seemingly new national culture. Colonial and nationalist constructs of the Indian home, and the middle-class women who protected that home, continue to powerfully shape everyday articulations of national belonging, even as they are transformed through individual negotiations and a global economy. Drawing from extensive interviews and ethnographic work, this paper analyzes the interplay of gender, class, and nation in contemporary urban India as individualized, gendered efforts to accumulate symbolic capital. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9125-5</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College Sociology Department 106 Central St. Wellesley MA 02481 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l47407612638/">Volume 32, Number 2 / June, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
“They’re Coming to America”: Immigration, Settlement, and Citizenship
“They’re Coming to America”: Immigration, Settlement, and Citizenship<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category BOOK REVIEW ESSAY</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9127-3</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Yen Le Espiritu, UC San Diego Ethnic Studies Department La Jolla CA 92093-0522 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l47407612638/">Volume 32, Number 2 / June, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Who Are We? Genealogists Negotiating Ethno-Racial Identities
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This paper analyzes how ethno-racial standpoints influence the ways that genealogists negotiate and narrate biological and/or social interpretations of family and social history. A constructivist methodological approach grounds the analysis of three family genealogists who all have African and European lineages, but differ in their current ethno-racial identities. These case studies serve as exemplars of how individuals negotiate the racial formation processes of past and present. I suggest that there is reflexive and political potential in bio-based genealogy to transform our current racial “common sense.” The practice of genealogy reveals tacit social and biological assumptions that can serve as points of leverage for progressive social change, and yet vary by standpoint. In the context of the iconic gene we must be vigilant about the threat of genetic essentialism, yet the threat is mitigated by the simultaneous democratization of our knowledge and control over origin stories. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-009-9126-4</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Karla B. Hackstaff, Northern Arizona University Department of Sociology and Social Work Box 15300 Building 65 Flagstaff AZ 86011-5300 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 32</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l47407612638/">Volume 32, Number 2 / June, 2009</a></li> </ul> </ul>