Moving from the Margins

Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism
Herausgeber: Andersen, Margaret L.; Baca Zinn, Maxine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"At a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on people's lives, and what we can do to address the persistent and foundational American problem of systemic racism. Knowledge about race and racism changes as social and historical conditions evolve, as different generations of scholars experience unique societal conditions, and as new voices from those who have previously been kept at the margins have challenged us to reconceive our thinking about race and ethnicity. In this collection of essays by prominent sociologists whose work has transformed the understanding of race and ethnicity, each reflects on their career and how their personal experiences have shaped their contribution to understanding racism, both in scholarly and public debate. Merging biography, memoir, and sociohistorical analysis, these essays provide vital insight into the influence of race people's perspectives and opportunities both inside and outside of academia, and how racial inequality is felt, experienced, and confronted"--

Produktdetails

• Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781503637429
• ISBN-10: 1503637425
• Artikelnr.: 67483244

Autorenporträt

Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Delaware.Maxine Baca Zinn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism: An Introduction
1. Doing Sociology While Black
2. The Praxis of Being Black in America: Grounding the Intellectual Project
3. From Clueless to Critical: My Journey to Understanding the Intersections
of Race, Class, and Gender
4. Thinking through Race
5. Killing Me Softly: Race, Racism, and Sociology in My Life
6. "I Change Myself; I Change the World": The Testimonio of a
First-Generation Chicana Scholar-Activist
7. A Critical Race Feminist at the Crossroads of Biography and History
8. An Affirmative Action Confession
9. The Sandbox, Sisterhood, and a Sociological Journey
10. From El Valle to Public Sociology: My Personal Intellectual Journey
11. Shifting Boundaries
12. Disrupting Silences: Affect and Embodied Experiences of Systemic
Oppression
13. Redefining and Reclaiming Race as a Latina Sociologist
14. Always Observant: The Academic Journey of an Urban Ethnographer
15. An Outsider Within: Reflections on the Intersections of My Life and
Work