ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019

REMARKS: THE NEWSLETTER FOR THE SECTION ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR IN THIS ISSUE Wendy Roth

Over the past few years, I served Message from the Chair ………..1 on the ASA Task Force on Membership, a group tasked with Editors’ Introduction …………..3 studying the reasons for the organization’s decline in Section Award Winners ……….4 membership and identifying possible ways to address the Member Spotlight …………….8 problem. I learned several lessons there, including the Publication Spotlight …………11 importance to continued Dear SREM Members, membership of people feeling a #CiteBlackWomen ………….15

It has been a tremendous sense of community and Cause for Celebration: pleasure to start my term as belonging in the organization – Dissertations Defended, Chair of the Section on Racial and the special role that sections New Hires, and and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) play in that. Being a member of a Promotions ………….16 last month. When I attended my section in any given year made first ASA as a graduate student, people more likely to renew their Call for Editors ……………...17 overwhelmed by the size of this membership in ASA the organization where everyone else following year. Of course there seemed to know each other, it are many other factors section and to listen to your ideas was at the SREM reception that I influencing membership (like about how to make the section first felt welcomed. The people cost and value, (which ASA is feel like a welcoming community who greeted me and went out of working on). But to the extent for more people. If you have their way to include me made a that sections can make the ideas about activities for the lasting impression (a special organization a more welcoming section, please get in touch. This shout out to Maxine Craig and place, that’s a crucial role – year at the annual meeting, we Jiannbin Shiao who, as faculty especially for students, people tried out ‘Ask Me Anything’ members, invited an unknown from marginalized communities, tables, an informal way to meet graduate student to join them for or those who, for a variety of some of the section’s members dinner!). It made SREM feel like reasons may feel that other parts and get mentoring advice on a home port in a large, choppy of the organization are less than different topics. If you sea that I didn’t know how to welcoming. participated, please let us know navigate. One of my goals as Chair is to how you think it worked or how get more people involved in the it could be improved. I was also 1 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 thrilled by the great response to [email protected] with of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the call for volunteers in the your ideas and contributions. [email protected]). They have section’s committees and been working hard to bring you Please follow SREM on Twitter positions. Thank you to everyone this newsletter, and would (@ASA_SREM) and on who volunteered! And if you’re welcome your suggestions and Facebook. Jalia Joseph at Texas still interested in getting contributions for future issues. A&M University, our new social involved, it’s not too late. Verna media coordinator, has been David Embrick and David Keith (University of Alabama at doing a great job sharing news Brunsma, the editors of our Birmingham), our Chair-Elect relevant to the section and work section journal of Race and the Chair of our that our section members are and Ethnicity, have been approved Nominations Committee, will doing. Feel free to reach out to for a one-year extension to their soon be asking for nominations Jalia Joseph, term. Thanks to the Daves and of people interested in running at [email protected], or to their whole team on the journal for elected positions next year: me, for social media items or for their excellent work! The Graduate Student questions. SREM Publications Committee Representative, Council Member, will be reviewing proposals for a Publications Committee We also are updating the SREM new editorial team this year. Member, and Chair-Elect. webpage. Watoii Rabii at Please consider submitting a Remember that you can Oakland University is our proposal to continue the work of nominate yourself. Please do! website administrator. If you this important journal. The Call have any comments or updates, We are continuing the SREM for Editors is below. you can email him at Mentoring Blog that many of you [email protected]. Finally, our Program Committee asked us to bring back in our is working on planning the five recent mentoring survey. Myron One thing Watoii posted on our sessions we will have for the next T. Strong at Community College website is a new SREM annual meeting in San Francisco. of Baltimore County is the blog Procedures document that the Thanks to those who sent in administrator. In addition to SREM Council has been working suggestions. We will keep you recent posts by Victor Ray on to make the section’s posted. (University of Iowa) on how to procedures and roles of the write for the public, we have a section leadership more I’m looking forward to seeing, new contribution from Shaquilla transparent. If you have meeting, and working with many Harrigan (University of questions about how things are of you this coming year. Have a Pennsylvania) on “Planning your done, you can look here. If happy and productive Fall term. Way to a Ph.D.,” with a very you’re thinking of running for a All the best, helpful spreadsheet graduate SREM office and want to know Wendy Roth students can use to plan out what it entails, hopefully this will [email protected] program requirements and goals. give you the information to help There is also a place on the blog you decide. If there’s anything where SREM members can ask missing you think should be specific mentoring questions and detailed here, please email me. we will do our best to find a mentor to answer them. Please I would also like to thank our check out the SREM Mentoring new co-editors of Remarks, Brenda Gambol (City University Blog. And please consider writing a blog post. You can of New York Graduate Center, email Myron Strong at [email protected]) and Matthew Schneider (University 2 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Remarks Newsletter Editors 2019/2020

It is a great pleasure to serve the 2019/2020 term as the editors of Remarks. Already we are finding that this is an especially enjoyable position to hold. Over the past two months, members of SREM have been keeping us in the loop on their many accomplishments. Books and articles have been published. Podcasts have been recorded. Grants, promotions, and new positions have been earned. After only six weeks on the job, it has been a great honor to see the constant good news flowing into our inboxes. SO, our first and most important message to share with you is simply THANK YOU! The news you shared with us and the profiles you wrote about yourselves are what made this newsletter possible. Second, as new editors, we would like to introduce ourselves. We have provided profiles about ourselves below, but you can also treat this as an invitation. We plan to publish two more newsletters this academic year, one in the spring and one in the summer. If you have any questions about or new ideas for the newsletter, feel free to reach out! And of course, please continue to send us your good news to share! Thank you again, Matthew Schneider and Brenda Gambol Remarks Co-Editors

Brenda Gambol Matthew Jerome Schneider CUNY The Graduate Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Brenda Gambol is a Ph.D. candidate in Matthew Jerome Schneider is a Sociology at CUNY The Graduate Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the Center. Her research agenda addresses University of Illinois at Urbana- the need to de-homogenize current Champaign. His research is guided frameworks on Asian Americans by the principles of critical race through her study on a significantly theory and and large, yet woefully understudied considers issues of whiteness, population, Filipino Americans. Her volunteering, and homelessness. His work on nonwhite Filipino dissertation, an ethnography of intermarriage has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies predominantly white volunteers serving a majority black and featured on WBAI’s “War on Immigrants”. She is homeless population in St. Louis, MO, investigates how currently completing her dissertation on Filipino American well-intentioned volunteer groups inadvertently help mobility and will defend Spring 2020. She is an active reproduce marginal urban space, narratives about black member of her community; she served as a board member and homeless “otherness,” and middle-class, white for the Filipino American National Historical Society and dominance. Schneider’s article on volunteer tourists, was invited to attend the White House’s Filipino American “Exotic Place, White Space,” is published in Sociological History month celebration in 2016. She lives in Brooklyn, Forum. He also maintains a number of “passion projects” New York, with her husband and two children. For relating to environmental issues like hydraulic fracturing. questions about the newsletter, she can be contacted via For questions about the newsletter, he can be contacted email at [email protected]. via email at [email protected].

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SREM AWARD WINNERS: Presented at ASA 2019

Founders Award for Scholarship and Service: One letter said “Nazli is commendable not just for Nazli Kibria being an excellent scholar and for the service she has and continues to provide to the profession, but she stands heads above the rest in terms of her From Saher Selod: Nazli commitment to mentorship.” Kibria is an expert on race, immigration, and childhood with a focus on Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award: Asian, South Asian and Freeden Blume Oeur Muslim Americans and has published extensively Black Boys Apart is a on these topics. Kibria has comparative written multiple journal ethnography of two articles as well as four all-boys high schools books including Family targeted to poor Tightrope: The Changing young black men. Lives of Vietnamese The book asks why Americans (Princeton University Press), Becoming Asian schools would want American: Identities of Second Generation Chinese and Korean to separate on the Americans (Johns Hopkins University Press), Muslims basis of gender in in Motion (Rutgers University Press) and most recently neighborhoods that Race and Immigration (Polity Press), some of which have long faced racial have won multiple awards. Her contribution to the and social class sociology of race cannot be understated, bringing segregation. Less than an innovative school reform together immigration and race scholarship. effort, these schools link to an old history of turning In addition to her stellar academic career, Kibria has to various institutions to try and reform the character served the discipline in many ways. Over the years she of black men and boys. Blume Oeur’s current has served on several editorial boards of journals such research includes a collaborative project that provides as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Contemporary Sociology, and a more integrative framework for studying whiteness South Asian Diaspora. She was also the past President and masculinity. His next book project, The Sociological for the Eastern Sociological Society, served on the Dream, uses a fictional friendship between W. E. B. publications committee for the Section of Racial and Du Bois and C. Wright Mills in the early cold war Ethnic Minorities, and chaired the Asia and Asian period to help us reimagine the politics, the promise, Americans for ASA. Furthermore, she has mentored and the propaganda of the sociological imagination. many graduate students and junior faculty of color. In great detail, all of the letters written is support of Kibria for the Founders Award discussed the support and mentorship she has provided to junior scholars. 4 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 Europe; a mixed-methods study of the spatial Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award: structure of income segregation by race, ethnicity, and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn nativity in Houston, TX; and an ongoing project to understand the relationship between the appraisal industry, home values, and racial inequality. Drawing on one year of extensive ethnographic Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award: fieldwork, more than Jennifer C. Mueller 100 in-depth interviews, and supplemental Jennifer C. Mueller is an quantitative data, assistant professor of Korver-Glenn uses sociology and Director of the case of the the Intergroup Relations housing market to make three main contributions to Program at Skidmore the sociology of race. First, she draws attention to the College, a liberal arts college everyday processes that render racial inequality in upstate New York. durable. Specifically, she shows how serially linked Broadly speaking, their work stages of interaction allow racial and focuses on racial to compound, or accumulate. Second, reproduction, examining she explains how this compounding process happens how material, symbolic, and psychic processes for both individuals and neighborhoods, using a intersect to reproduce white domination over time. In relational framework to describe how privilege and one line I target intergenerational mechanisms that advantage accumulate for whites and white connect private, family practices of wealth and capital neighborhoods on the one hand and how exclusion transfer to the deep history of racist exploitation and or costly inclusion accumulate for individuals and redistributive asset policy in the U.S. – documented in neighborhoods of color on the other hand. Third, she my in-progress book, Inheriting the Gap: Wealth, shows how both explicit and colorblind varieties of Capital, and Intergenerational Race-Making in the co-exist in contemporary housing market U.S. Another line directs attention to how cultural interactions and transactions, enabled by ostensibly artifacts, technologies, and ritualized practices bolster race-neutral institutional rules and norms. racial reproduction. Projects here include studies of racist cultural affordances in Halloween costuming, Currently, Korver-Glenn is working on several progressive media, and formal sociological knowledge projects geared towards understanding racial housing production. Their final line tackles racial cognition inequality and segregation. Among these is a mixed- and epistemology, particularly the ways white people methods study of rental property management. Using generate and maintain racial ignorance. Their award ethnographic and interview-based methods, she has winning article, “Producing Colorblindness: Everyday been examining how property managers broker access Mechanisms of White Ignorance” is exemplary of this to rental property and how renters experience work. The article adapts Charles Mills’ concept of an property management in two understudied cities with “epistemology of ignorance” to put agency back into distinct racial histories and current contexts. She is an overly structural version of colorblind racism pairing these analyses with a quantitative analysis of theory. They demonstrate the active ways that white nationally representative restricted Census data to students resist critical racial understanding under determine whether property management practices conditions that should make learning easy; and how vary systematically by neighborhood and metropolitan they logically distort and nullify the practical and area racial characteristics. Other projects include a moral implications of such lessons when they mixed-methods study of immigrant integration in penetrate. Drawing on their analysis of these “white 5 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 epistemic maneuvers,” they then reconstruct theories of white colorblindness. Moving away from the idea James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award, of colorblindness as a structure of static logics that Honorable Mention: whites inherit, they theorize colorblindness, and white Shannon Malone Gonzales, Samantha J. Simon, and racial ignorance more broadly, as a process, and state Katie Kaufman Rogers of mind white people must actively work to achieve.

James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award: Alfredo Huante

Alfredo Huante is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (In)Equality (IRISE) at the University of Denver. “A Lighter Shade of Brown? Racial Formation and Gentrification in Latino Los Angeles,” examines how gentrification functions as a racial project and supports new forms of racialization to maintain uneven development along racial lines. How racial formation processes unfurl at the local scale expands conventional understanding of racial formation theory and practice while, simultaneously, illustrating the centrality of place in race-making. This study finds new race and class formations are Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Samantha J. Simon, and developed by casting the barrio itself and significant Katie Kaufman Rogers are doctoral candidates in portions of the Mexican American population as sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Their “honorary white.” Despite colorblind and post-racial paper, "The Officer: A Comparative ideologies espoused in majority-minority cities like Analysis of the Diversity Solution to Legal Cynicism," Los Angeles, this landscape fostered emerging racial uses interviews with U.S. police officers and black formations alongside gentrification processes which women civilians to investigate how standpoint shapes have increased racial, political, and economic their perspectives on the "diversity solution" to inequality. In addition to developing a book police-community tensions. From police officers’ manuscript on this subject, Huante is at the early standpoint, a race- and gender-integrated police force stages of a comparative research project examining addresses the problem of police-community tensions the impact of light rail development in Latino by encouraging civilians to interpret their interactions communities across three Southwest cities (Los with police more favorably. In contrast, black women Angeles, Denver, and Phoenix). civilians view diversity initiatives as inadequate to address the racist, sexist history and power disparities

in U.S. policing. They see officers, regardless of race and/or gender, as socialized into a “code of blue” that shifts their allegiance to the department, 6 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 mandates surveillance of black persons, and stratifies abortion legislation passed in 2013. This legal black communities. In addition to this work, the infringement on women’s rights and the displacement authors are engaged in their own research. Malone of thousands of black women in Austin make it clear Gonzalez's dissertation on police violence against that reproductive rights have become a field in which black women investigates how their social position in blackness and femaleness are being systematically converging systems of inequality shapes their threatened. Scott’s research revealed black women’s experiences with police and resistance to police comfort level going to an OBGYN, the experiences violence. Simon's dissertation work provides evidence they have with physicians, and their treatment of the organizational practices of law enforcement outcomes are shaped not only by race, gender, and that lead to racist use of force. She turns the attention socioeconomic status, but also through historical away from explanations of police violence that point trauma, mental health, and access to medical to officers’ individual racial , the purported insurance and sex education. These findings highlight necessity of using force in high-crime areas, or the need for a holistic, compassionate approach to inadequate de-escalation training, to instead examine women’s reproductive health care that acknowledges how police hiring and training result in racist violence. the historical traumas black women embody in and Kaufman Rogers’s multi-method dissertation study out of medical atmospheres and the need to educate examines race and gender inequality in the emerging and better equip medical staff to treat women whose multibillion-dollar U.S. legal cannabis industry, by intersectional identities may lead to increased health foregrounding the experiences of women workers, risks. executives, and entrepreneurs. As a recent graduate of Southwestern University, Scott plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology. She Joe Feagin Undergraduate Student Paper Award: intends to continue researching topics of reproductive Savannah Scott justice and how they are affected by the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality. She looks forward to continuing my education and expanding on her Reproductive health current research about this crucial social justice issue. care, historically and currently, is not equal for every woman in the United States. The medical subfield of gynecology was built on the torture of enslaved black women, programs led to the forcible sterilization of thousands of black women until the 1970s, and doctors today are less likely to believe black women’s health concerns. In “Medically Policing Black Female Bodies,” Scott uses nine qualitative interviews with black women recently prescribed birth control to examine the experiences they have seeking birth control from their physicians in Austin, Texas. Austin has seen its black population decline due to rapid gentrification. Texas has also witnessed a swift decline in family planning services in light of anti- 7 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Meet some of the people who have been doing SREM work behind the scenes

Kevin Zevallos, Former Graduate Representative current research focuses on how the representations and criminalization of immigrants and minorities perpetuate inequality. He teaches Racial and Ethnic Kevin Zevallos is a doctoral Relations, Race, Ethnicity, Crime, & Justice, student in Sociology at the Corrections, and Introduction to Criminal Justice. University of Connecticut. Kevin’s master’s thesis studied Ryon J Cobb, Former Social Media Administrator how undocumented Latina/o/x youth activists negotiate and reconcile the consequences of Ryon J. Cobb, PhD strategically deploying a political recently served as identity — the DREAMer — the Social Media that conflicts with their personal Administrator for identity and values. He is looking to expand on his SREM, and is an research by including the perspectives of state Assistant Professor legislators and other state actors to study how claims in the School of for immigrant rights and citizenship shape our current Social Work at The understandings of race and racism. In 2018-2019, University of Texas Zevallos served as the SREM Graduate Student at Arlington. He is Representative and participated in the Joe Feagin engaged in a highly Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award active research program that elucidates the dynamic committee. He has also served as the Managing processes that create and sustain racial/ethnic Editor for the section’s journal, the Sociology of Race inequality across the lifespan. Accordingly, his and Ethnicity, since 2017. research portfolio includes studies on skin tone stratification in cumulative biological and mortality risk, the role of religion in racial stratification, and the Watoii Rabii, Website Administrator psychosocial dimensions of health inequalities among self-identified whites, blacks, and Latinos. Watoii Rabii is the current His research on racial and health inequalities is also website administrator for reaching the broader public, receiving significant SREM, and an Assistant coverage from The Atlantic, The Pacific Standard, Pew Professor of Criminal Research Center, the Smithsonian Institution, and Justice at Oakland other media outlets. Several agencies within and University. His research outside the National Institutes of Health also interests span the areas of recognize his accomplishments and promise as a criminology, race and researcher, including the Ford Foundation, Louisville ethnicity, immigration, Institute, National Institute on Aging, National and urban sociology. His 8 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 Institute on Minority Health Disparities, and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Hadi Khoshneviss, Graduate Student Representative Before matriculating to UTA, Cobb was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Southern My name is Hadi California. He currently teaches graduate and Khoshneviss and I’m undergraduate courses on topics related to racial excited to serve as the inequalities and the social determinants of population SREM graduate health. Cobb was the SREM Social Media student representative Administrator from 2013-2019, together with this year. I did my Yasmiyn Irizarry, Patricia Louie, Rashawn Ray, Ph.D. at the Michelle Robinson, and Abigail Sewell. University of South Florida and now I am a visiting faculty Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, Council Member member at Kenyon College. My research focuses on whiteness studies, migration and mobility, and Sarah Mayorga-Gallo is an colonial history. My doctoral dissertation studied how Assistant Professor of immigrants from South West Asia (the “Middle Sociology at UMass East”) and North became white in the United Boston. This is her third States, and how and why they are the campaigning to year as a council member. create a new ethnic category, called MENA, on the Her main research US Census. I’ve published papers in Mobilities, interests are racial and Ethnicities, and Postcolonial Studies. Currently, I am ethnic inequality, urban serving on the ASA’s Committee on Status of Racial neighborhoods, and and Ethnic Minorities at ASA. Latinx migration. Her first book, Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood, was an in-depth look at the San Juanita Garcia, Council Member social relationships and power dynamics of a “diverse” neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. She has also published research on dogs and racial My name is San boundaries, diversity ideology, and whiteness and Juanita García but I health. Her current book project, under contract with go by Juanita. I’m UNC Press, is about racial capitalism in Cincinnati, the proud daughter Ohio. Using data from two working-class of Mexican migrants neighborhoods, Sarah presents a case for how urban from the states of and race scholars can use racial capitalism to Durango and understand how both race and class matter in shaping Tamaulipas. I was city life at the micro-level, drawing connections born and raised in between various processes of urban change, including Houston, Texas and gentrification, immigration, and segregation. This recently moved to beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. semester, Sarah is enjoying her parental leave after giving birth to her daughter Elina in June. I have been a Council Member for our section since 2018. Thank you to the person that nominated me and to those that voted for me to be in this position! The Section on Race and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) has been one of my homes at the ASA meetings, a place where I am able to reciprocally engage in 9 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 intellectual conversations that are critical and push the needs, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes boundaries of mainstream sociology and a space Research Institute (PCORI). Before my move to where my experiences in the academy feel validated. North Carolina, I was a Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at The Ohio While I am still relatively new to the Council Member State University in the Department of Sociology. I position, I have truly enjoyed learning about the role earned my PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M and impact a Council Member can make toward University and had the privilege of writing my making our section a vibrant and engaging space. I dissertation at UC Merced. I am extremely happy to encourage all members to serve on ASA committees be in beautiful Santa Barbara! as it is a great way to give back to sections while simultaneously shaping the present and future of the section. Jalia L. Joseph, Social Media Administrator I am a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research explores how a Jalia L. Joseph is currently deportation regime and racialization practices serving as SREM’s social embedded in an anti-immigrant climate fuel media administrator and is a discrimination and impact intra-group relations, 3rd-year doctoral student in identity, stress, and the mental health of Mexican- the Department of origin women. My current work explores a concept I Sociology at Texas A&M develop called “vicarious illegality,” to highlight the University. Their master’s stress and mental health impacts on those who paper discusses how race is witness the negative consequences of “illegality,” decentered in social particularly family, romantic partners, and friends of movements literature and the undocumented. provides context as to what the mechanisms of decentering are, especially in the case of black social I previously worked at the University of California, movements. Looking forward, they plan to extend Riverside as an Assistant Professor in the Department their research by incorporating the black feminist of Sociology (2017-2019). I am also a former NRSA imagination into the analysis of social movements Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017) at the literature, moving away from white methods and Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the white logics. Currently, they serve as the Graduate University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, jointly Student Representative for the Texas A&M sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry & Presidential Council on Climate and Diversity and the Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. As a NRSA American Sociological Association Section on Race Postdoctoral Fellow I gained public health and mental and Ethnicity social media administrator. health services training leading to collaboration on a randomized controlled trial (Padres Efectivos) designed to enhance activation skills among Latina mothers with children with mental health service

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PUBLICATION SPOTLIGHT: Select Recent Works by Members of SREM

Recent Books

Hugo Ceron-Anaya. 2019. Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender and Golf in Mexico. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/privilege-at-play-9780190931612?lang=en&cc=us Privilege at Play is a book about social inequalities and privilege in today’s Mexico. Based on ethnographic research conducted in upscale golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, this book reverses the analysis of inequalities by focusing on the privileged. Using rich qualitative data, the book examines how social hierarchies are relations produced through class, racial, and gender dynamics, which manifest in a multitude of everyday practices. The book combines an intersectional approach with a space-sensitive perspective, showing how spatial dynamics deeply influence the reproduction of privilege and power. Paul Lopes. 2019. Art Rebels: Race, Class and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691159492/art-rebels Postwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art. Across the arts, artists rebelled against traditional conventions, embracing a commitment to creative autonomy and personal vision never before witnessed in the United States. Paul Lopes calls this the Heroic Age of American Art, and identifies two artists—Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese—as two of its leading icons. In this compelling book, Lopes tells the story of how a pair of talented and outspoken art rebels defied prevailing conventions to elevate American jazz and film to unimagined critical heights. During the Heroic Age of American Art—where creative independence and the unrelenting pressures of success were constantly at odds—Davis and Scorsese became influential figures with such modern classics as Kind of Blue and Raging Bull. Their careers also reflected the conflicting ideals of, and contentious debates concerning, avant-garde and independent art during this period. In examining their art and public stories, Lopes also shows how their rebellions as artists were intimately linked to their racial and ethnic identities and how both artists adopted hypermasculine ideologies that exposed the problematic intersection of gender with their racial and ethnic identities as iconic art rebels. Art Rebels is the essential account of a new breed of artists who left an indelible mark on American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. It is an unforgettable portrait of two iconic artists who exemplified the complex interplay of the quest for artistic autonomy and the expression of social identity during the Heroic Age of American Art.

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Recent Articles

Tennille Nicole Allen and Antonia Randolph. 2019. “Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649219866470

This article analyzes how four Black musical artists make “quiet,” or the inner life of , legible. Specifically, we consider ways that the quiet found within the lyrics of recent acclaimed albums from two hip-hop artists and two neo-soul artists—Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN (2017) and Rapsody’s Laila’s Wisdom (2017), Solange’s A Seat at the Table (2016) and Maxwell’s blackSUMMERS’night (2016), respectively—offer subtle, quotidian challenges to , , and objectification. We find that quiet occurs as artists describe the use of metaphysical space, or how place is used to make and take space for the self and to find peace, the protection of the interior self, and the gifts of quiet to the struggle for resistance.

These lyrics speak to the interior safe space that Blacks seek as refuge from oppression by the dominant culture and demands from within their community. We contend that Blacks exercise power through their dominion over their interior selves, which in turn expresses their humanity. It is their control of the content of inner life, whatever those contents may be, that is an expression of sovereignty.

Aarón Arredondo and Juan José Bustamante. 2019. “White Space, Brown Place: Racialized Experiences Accessing Public Space in an Arkansas Immigrant Community. Sociological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12273

This article examines the experiences of Latinos in Northwest Arkansas as they partake in community life within the Jones Center as a public setting traditionally dominated by legal and cultural practices intended to maintain white outlooks. We develop a conceptual model of race and space to theoretically frame how the implementation of an entrance fee system in this community setting shapes public space access into a restrictive racialized place. Drawing on ethnography and visual data gathered between fall 2014 and spring 2015, we found that the administration of the Jones Center made no effort to foster a more inclusive environment, creating a social atmosphere wherein participants construct the place as a whitespace. Whereas some challenged the exclusionary dimensions of symbolic white markers through spatial practices of resistance, others remained in what we call racialized subspaces. We argue that this form of restricting access aims to systematically, yet subtly preclude access to specific areas of the setting—i.e., swimming pool and ice rink. Nevertheless, participants in this study also demonstrate how community resiliency enables them to use “non‐restricted” areas within the whitespace as mechanisms to disrupt the meaning of white markers symbolically embedded in areas where access cannot be negotiated by local Latinos.

María Isabel Ayala and Christian Ramirez. 2019. “Coloniality and Latinx College Students’ Experiences.” Equity and Excellence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2019.1635542

Coloniality refers to the patterns of power relations resulting from colonialism that shape racial and ethnic groups’ experiences in diverse ways. Although it is known that coloniality influences higher education’s physical, symbolic, and social spaces, negatively affecting Latinxs’ college attainment, less research has been conducted on the way that Latinx students internalize, adapt to, and/or resist coloniality as they navigate primarily White higher education institutions (primarily White higher education institutions [PWHEIs] are higher education institutions where 50% or more of the students are White). To address this gap, we analyzed interview data from junior- and senior-level Latinx students attending a PWHEI in the United

12 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 States’ Midwest region to examine the numerous ways in which coloniality frames appear in students’ narratives. We end our discussion by making policy recommendations. Alex Manning. 2019. “The Age of Concerted Cultivation: A Racial Analysis of Parental Repertoires, and Childhood Activities.” Du Bois Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X19000080 In this paper I develop a race-centered, intersectional critique of concerted cultivation. First developed by Annette Lareau in Unequal Childhoods to describe the dominant middle-class cultural style of parenting, this powerful concept continues to shape scholarship on parenting and the social reproduction of social inequality through culture and class. I critique and reconstruct this concept based upon: 1) Existing research on racial identity and racial socialization, and racialized parenting techniques, and 2) Alternative readings of selected ethnographic material presented in Unequal Childhoods. First, I argue that concerted cultivation is a racialized parenting practice and that families negotiate and navigate a complex race- and-class-based social context of childrearing. Second, I present a re-reading of excerpts from Unequal Childhoods to show how families of color, and in particular Black families, cultivate racial knowledge and skills in their children. Third, I make a case for the larger sociological usefulness of a layered race and class analysis of parenting culture, and argue that such a framework adds more depth to core arguments made by Lareau. In the last section, I discuss the social tensions that exist within concerted cultivation and intensive parenting culture. I reflect on possible implications for normative parenting culture that matches well with neoliberal market rationality, exists within racial capitalism, but at the same time connects to anti-racist socialization and rejection of hegemonic cultural ideologies. José G. Soto-Márquez. 2019 “‘I’m not Spanish, I’m from Spain’: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218766388 This study counters potentially premature demographic and sociological claims of a large-scale Hispanic transition into mainstream whiteness. Via in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of recently arrived Spanish immigrants in the United States, it presents a distinctive shift in American categorization logic, whereby race and ethnicity switch in order of everyday importance. Despite Spanish immigrants’ direct links to Europe and few structural social boundaries between them and mainstream U.S. whites, their everyday experience is of a largely “symbolic whiteness” that is subservient to the more consequential and essentialist Hispanic panethnic identity. Forced to maneuver this unique “bifurcated ethnicity,” Spaniards highlight a theoretically important deviation from the established ethnic options for European coethnics in the United States. Overall, Spaniards’ ethnoracial adaptations and their identity vary by institutional sites, by social settings, and along gender lines. Their ethnic bifurcation brings into question the overall logic and stability of the U.S. Hispanic/white boundaries. Jason A. Smith and Randy Abreu. 2019. "MOU or an IOU? Latina/os and the Racialization of Media Policy" Ethnic & Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1444187

As media consolidation has led to debates over whether it has been good for communities of colour in the United States, political activism by civic groups regarding media policy has played a role in how regulation has taken shape. Through advocacy efforts over media policy, Latina/os seek inclusion within the media landscape. This article engages in an interpretive policy analysis of the 2011 Comcast/NBCU merger at the FCC and the racialization of media policy. Our article highlights the need to critically engage with the role of racialization regarding media policy, and the ways that representation should be thought of beyond notions of narrowcasting or numerical diversity in the media landscape. Despite efforts by Latina/o groups to participate and gain access to the broader media landscape, their efforts fell short in ensuring increased representation and decision-making power post-merger. 13 ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019

Roberta Spalter-Roth, Jean Shin, Jason A. Smith, Amber C. Kalb, Kyle K. Moore, Ismail Cid-Martinez, and Jermaine Toney. 2019. "'Raced' Organizations and the Academic Success of URM Faculty Members in Sociology.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218807951

The purpose of this research is to determine whether participating in “raced” organizations benefits underrepresented minority (URM) faculty members in their quest for tenure and promotion to associate professor of sociology. Raced organizations such as historically black colleges and universities began as segregated institutions because black students and faculty members were prevented from attending or working at white-dominated institutions. Over time, raced organizations developed within the white- dominated institutions and were often created in opposition to white or “mainstream” sociology. Latina/o organizations (including Hispanic-serving institutions) started years after organizations for black scholars and have followed a similar pattern and purpose. Although historically white institutions no longer legally segregate URM organizations and activities, these organizations and activities often remain marginalized and devalued. The authors examine the relationship of participating in such organizations in contrast to publishing in peer-reviewed journals for climbing the academic ladder at research-extensive and other institutions. The authors find that there is a significant relationship between publishing and being promoted. URM faculty members must follow the “publish or perish” model, following historically white male norms for an “ideal” career in the academic world. The work of black and Latina/o sociologists still appears to be marginalized. Only one type of raced organization or activity, belonging to a URM-oriented section of the American Sociological Association, is significantly related to upward mobility at either research-extensive or non-research-extensive institutions. The authors conclude with a series of policy recommendations for increasing the academic status and well-being of URM faculty members. Şule Yaylaci, Wendy D. Roth, and Kaitlyn Jaffe. 2019. “Measuring Racial Essentialism in the Genomic Era: The Genetic Essentialism Scale for Race (GESR).” Current Psychology https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00311-z Racial essentialism is the belief that races are biologically distinct groups with defining core “essences,” a notion associated with increased social distance and racial . While there are different kinds of racial essentialism, understanding and measuring genetic essentialism – the belief that racial groups and their defining core essences are determined by genes – is increasingly important in the wake of the Human Genome Project and the genomic revolution that it spurred. Many have questioned whether such genomic advances will reinforce genetic essentialist beliefs about race, but scholarly research is limited by measures that do not specify the role of genes in these beliefs or allow for distinct theoretical sub- components. In this paper, we develop and validate the Genetic Essentialism Scale for Race (GESR) using a sequential transformative mixed methods approach. Data for analysis come from an original survey-based study with a sample of 1069 White native-born Americans. We employ both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory analysis to derive and confirm a three-factor model of genetic essentialism (category determinism, core determinism, and polygenism). Due to the high correlation between these factors, we also test for a second-order measurement model with three first-order factors. After conducting additional reliability, validity, and construct validity testing, we propose the GESR— a second-order construct with three first-order dimensions— as a reliable measure of genetic essentialism. The GESR will allow researchers to determine the impact of new genetic developments like race-based medicines and genetic ancestry testing on genetic essentialist beliefs about race.

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#CITEBLACKWOMEN: Sociologists Making (Sound) Waves on the Cite Black Women Podcast

Featuring Whitney N.L. Pirtle, Christen Smith, Crystal Marie Fleming, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Kakiya Luna. “Centering and Celebrating Black Women in Sociology.” 2019. Cite Black Women. https://soundcloud.com/user-211649525/s1e9-centering-and-celebrating This episode features the recorded audio from the panel “Cite Black Women: Centering and Celebrating Black Women in Sociology,” that took place at the American Sociological Association Meeting in 2019: What started out as a small idea on twitter turned out to be a mini-movement in Philly. On the Saturday of 2018 ASA conference, scores of sociologists were seen donning t-shirts adorned only with simple writing #CITEBLACKWOMEN and the message was clear. It was a call out to cite black women as a tool to fight the intellectual and positional erasure of black women and their merits in the academy. This panel seeks to ensure that the 2018 moment might transition to a larger movement that centers and celebrates black women sociologists. Questions the panelist will address include: Who belongs in the cannon of black women sociologists and who are the contemporary innovators? Who is even included (or who is excluded) when we say, black women? What guides our gatekeeping practices in publishing and how can we make them more inclusive and equitable? What might we lose if we don’t listen to black women today? How might we make this symbolic gesture of #citeblackwomen into something more praxis oriented? Beyond citing black women, how can we further support black women in our discipline and the academy. Featuring Vilna Treitler. “Dr. Vilna Treitler on Trauma, Resilience, Memoir and Artistic Vision.” 2019. Cite Black Women. https://soundcloud.com/user-211649525/s1e10-dr-vilna-treitler-on-trauma-resilience-memoir-and-artistic- vision At the American Sociological Meeting 2019, [Christen Smith] had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Vilna Treitler. In this conversation, she discusses her experiences with trauma and resilience, mentorship, her work as a visual artist and her newest project: her memoir. Vilna Bashi Treitler is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, a sociologist, and an artist. Her scholarship theorizes about international migration, race and ethnicity and the dynamics of hierarchical socioeconomic structures, and she has earned distinctions for expertise in qualitative methods. Bashi Treitler is the author of The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions, a comparative historical analysis of US ethnic groups’ racialization and the antiblackness it produces, and Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World, a study of the help immigrants get from the transnational aid networks they create for themselves. She is also editor of the book Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption, on the racialization of children made available domestically and internationally by displacement and misfortune, and a monograph issue of Current Sociology entitled Dynamics of Inequality in a Global Perspective. She has served as Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society, and as Vice Chair of the UN NGO Committee on the Elimination of Racism, Afrophobia, and Colorism. Her art centers on oil painting and glasswork, and she cares deeply about social justice and , so she moves in and out of activism as much as her other obligations allow. 15

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CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION: Dissertations Defended, New Hires, and Promotions

Promotions New Positions

Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, University of Oregon, has Jean Beaman joined the faculty in the sociology been promoted to full professor. department at the University of California-Santa Barbara in Fall 2019. She was previously on the faculty at Purdue University. Dissertations Defended

Angela M. Simms, University of Pennsylvania, Jason A. Smith started as a Senior Analyst with successfully defended her dissertation, “Power, Kaiser Permanente's National Market Research team Privilege, and Peril: Governing in a Suburban in the Mid-Atlantic Region this summer. Majority Black Middle Class County – A Regional Perspective,” this past spring. Awards and Grants

Jason A. Smith, George Mason University, Zakiya Luna has been named as a Changemaker by successfully defended his dissertation, “Deliberating the Society of Family Planning & SFP Research Fund. Diversity: Race and Gender in the Federal The grant is approximately $65,000. Communications Commission’s ‘Ownership

Debates,’” this past spring.

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CALL FOR EDITORS Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Deadline: May 1, 2020

Individual and team applications are invited for the position of editor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, a journal of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (SRE) brings together the highest quality sociological research on race and ethnicity. It is published quarterly each year. SRE has steadily witnessed increased submissions since its founding, receiving approximately 200 submissions each year, and is on track to surpass that mark in the current year. The editors are expected to secure timely and appropriate reviews and make the final decision on manuscripts, informing both the author(s) and reviewers of the final disposition. The editors are also responsible for maintaining the high standards of ASA journals, ensuring that issues are filled within the annual page allotments, and preventing a long backlog of articles for either review or publication. The editor must show openness to communicating with scholars about diverse ideas, openness to a diverse range of methodologies, and eagerness to continue building the journal’s reputation. The official term for the new editors will begin in January 2022. The editorial transition will begin in 2021. The editors’ term is for three years (2022-2024), with a possible extension of up to an additional two years. Candidates must be members of both the ASA and the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and hold a tenured position or equivalent in an academic or a non-academic setting. Section bylaws specify that the editor must have been a member of SREM for 5 of the last 10 years before taking over the editorship and should be a contributing member to the Section. We especially encourage applications from editorial teams that include members of underrepresented groups. The actual costs associated with editing the journal are covered by the publisher, a dedicated portion of section dues, and the editors’ university (or universities). Applicants will provide a letter from the administration of their institution assuring a suitable level of financial and in-kind support for the editor(s), a managing editor (often a graduate student from the editor(s)’s institution or another institution where the editor(s) can illustrate the potential for a successful collaboration), and the editorial office. Selection Process: Applications will be reviewed by the SREM Publications Committee beginning on May 1, 2020. Anonymized candidate vision statements will be circulated to the SREM membership for advisory comments and feedback. The SREM Publications Committee, in consultation with the SREM Council and Chair, will review and rank the candidates and submit a recommendation for editor(s) to the SREM membership by August 31, 2020. The SREM membership will vote on the recommendation presented to them by the Publications Committee in September 2020. By December 1, 2020 the results of the vote and other materials required for review of the journal will be forwarded to ASA’s Publications Committee, which will review the selection and forward the recommendation to ASA Council. The new editors will work with the current editors in 2021 to ensure a smooth transition on January 1, 2022. Applications: The application packets should include the following materials:

• Vision Statement: Set forth your goals and plans for the content of the journal. This may include an assessment of the current strengths, weaknesses, or gaps that you plan to address and how you will carry out your plan. 17

ASA SECTION NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019 • Editor/Co-Editors Background Information: the name, affiliation, and other important information about the potential editor(s). Describe the qualifications and experience of each person that supports their inclusion. Please do not include names of individuals that you would like to include on the larger editorial board. If you wish to include names of nominees for Pedagogy and Book Review editors, you may; these individuals will be nominated by the editorial team after they are selected, so you are not required to include them in your application. See the SREM bylaws for details. • Institutional Support: It is important for candidates to examine the feasibility of serving as editor in light of the resources provided by the publisher, the section, and the home university. We request a preliminary letter of support from a dean or other appropriate institutional official. This letter must be included for the application to be considered. • CVs: for all potential editors (and if applicable associate editors).

In accordance with ASA’s mission to publish high quality scholarship, the following criteria are considered in selecting editors: (1) established record of scholarship; (2) evidence of understanding the mission of the journal and its operation, indicated by experience with the journal across any of a wide variety of activities (submission, reviewing, editorial board experience); (3) assessment of the present state of the journal, its strengths and challenges, and a vision for the journal’s future; (4) openness to different methods, theories, and approaches to sociology; (5) record of responsible service to scholarly publishing; and (5) evidence of organizational skill and intellectual leadership. For questions and further information about the application process, please contact: W. Carson Byrd, Chair of SREM Publications Committee ([email protected]). We encourage anyone who is considering an application and wants to discuss ideas or ask questions about any topic, including the resources necessary to support the journal, to get in touch. The SREM bylaws are available here. A brief note indicating interest in applying should be sent to [email protected] by April 1, 2020. The application packet should be no more than five (5) pages (excluding CVs), and must be received by May 1, 2020. Applications should be addressed to the SREM Publications Committee and emailed to W. Carson Byrd ([email protected]).

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