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RGC Newsletter Thanks to Outgoing Council Members Melanie Editor Section on Race, Gender, & Class American Sociological Association Volume 2, Issue 1 JUNE, 2008 See you in Boston! For detailed information about the Section Events at this year’s Annual Meeting, please go to page 2 photo credit: “Boston Night” by multimdesai Message from the Chair, Joane Nagel This past year has a been a great time to serve as Chair of the Race, Gender & Class section. Our subject of inquiry has continued to develop theoretically and empirically, and we have seen matters of race, gender, and class become increasingly defined as integral dimensions of sociological research questions. We may not quite yet see race, gender, and class completely routinized dimensions of all research, but when the ASA convenes in Boston, our section will present to our colleagues an impressive set of sessions that challenge all of us to identify and understand the racialized, gendered, and classed dimensions of identity, inequality, culture, and social change. In addition to our six RGC sessions listed below, please note that this year we are reinstituting the Race, Gender & Class Refereed Roundtables, so we can include in the program a broad array of topics of interest to our members. My thanks to our outgoing Chair, Anthony Lemelle, for his service to the section and his help in my transition from chair-elect to chair. I am very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with a great set of section offi- cers, Council members, and committee chairs and members. (continued on page 3) 2008 Election Results Here are the results of the 2008 elections. Congratulations to our newly elected officers, and thanks to everyone who Hereshowed are their the resultscommitment of the to 2008 the section elections. by vol Congratulationsunteering to run to for our this newly year’s elec election.ted officers, and thanks to everyone who showed their commitment to the section By volunteering to run for this year’s election. Chair-Elect: Chair-Elect: Maxine Craig, California State University-EastMaxine Craig, Bay California State University-East Bay Secretary - Treasurer: Secretary - Treasurer: Mary Kelly, University of Central Missouri Mary Kelly, University of Central Missouri Council Members: Council Members: Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College, Columbia University Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College Antonia Randolph, University of Delaware Columbia University and Antonia Randolph, University of Delaware VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 PAGE 2 Section Sessions at the Annual Meeting 1. Race, Gender, and Class: Environmental Jus- - Global Capitalism, Global Knowledge: The tice & Global Climate Change. Monday, Aug Case of Socially Responsible Coffee, Nicki Lisa 4th. 8:30-10:10am (Hilton Hilton Boston Back Cole (University of California-Santa Barbara) Bay, Room TBA). -Group Affiliation and Market Embeddedness in - Session Organizer: Joane Nagel (University of American Enterprise, Zulema Valdez (Texas Kansas) A&M University) - Climate Change Lessons from the Environ- -Southern Rock Musicians’ Construction of White mental Justice Movement, Robert D. Bullard Trash, Jason T. Eastman (Coastal Carolina Uni- (Clark Atlanta University) versity) and Doug Schrock (Florida State Univer- - Double Jeopardy: Urban Heat Islands and sity) Global Warming, Sharon L. Harlan (Arizona - Spatial Transversals: Gender, Race, Class, and State University) Tourism in Cape Town, South Africa, Jill Renee - Say What?! Gender and Climate Change, Joane Williams (University of Colorado) Nagel (University of Kansas) 3. Roundtables, Monday August 4th. 10:30am- - Coping with Climate Change: Dimensions of 11:30 am (Hilton Boston Back Bay, Room TBA) Injustice, J. Timmons Roberts (College of Wil- Culture and Social Interactions liam & Mary) Education - Race, Place, and the Environment in the After- Gender and Society I math of Katrina, Beverly Lillian Wright (Xavier Gender and Society II University) Labor and Organizations 2. Race, Gender, Class & Capitalism. Monday, Race and Ethnicity, and Identity August 4th. 2:30pm-4:10pm. (Hilton Boston Back Social Movements and Globalization Bay, Room TBA) Stratification Session Organizer: Fred L. Pincus (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) and Natalie J. Soko- loff (City University of New York) Section Reception! The Race, Class & Gender Section will be co-hosting a reception with the Environment & Technology Section. The reception will take place from 6pm to 8:30pm on Sunday, August 3 at Tapeo Restaurant at 266 Newberry Street--two blocks from the Bos- ton Marriott Copley Plaza Hotel. We hope to see you there! VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 PAGE 3 Message from the Section Chair (Continued from page 1) ergies with colleagues from another section. This second boundary is one that is not often crossed by Thanks to Celine-Marie Pascale, Chair of the Out- the membership of either section, but is a border- standing Article Award Committee, Erica Chito land in which fruitful collaboration is possible. Is- Childs, Chair of the Outstanding Graduate Student sues of environmental justice, social inequality di- Paper Award Committee, and Carla Brailey, Chair mensions of environmental change and disasters, of the Outstanding Book Award Committee. The the impact of climate change in the global North- demanding work of these committees is very im- South, and the race, gender, and class dimensions portant to the professional lives of the award nomi- of climate policy all offer opportunities for our nees and winners and to the vitality of the section. members to speak to one another. One of our sec- Special thanks to Annee Roschelle, RGC Secretary- tion sessions, “Race/Gender/Class, Environmental Treasurer. This is Annee’s last year as Secretary- Justice & Global Climate Change,” will spotlight Treasurer, and I want to recognize her for this im- the work of our colleagues on some of these issues. portant section work. I know that she’s especially We have two very generous section members to looking forward to passing on our requests for re- thank for arranging this alternative reception loca- imbursements to our new Secretary-Treasurer, tion: Carol Wright and Natalia Sarkisian pounded Mary E. Kelly. It also has been my pleasure to the pavement around the hotels in Boston to find work with our Chair-Elect, France Winddance this very exciting venue for our reception. Tapeo is Twine, who chaired this year’s Nominations Com- just three blocks from the meeting hotels (check out mittee. That committee’s successful work has re- their website at: http://www.tapeo.com/home/ ); sulted not only in a new Secretary-Treasurer. we’ll have a cash bar and a fine array of tapas for Maxine Craig has been elected our incoming Chair- you to sample and share, so please plan on attend- Elect and Elizabeth Bernstein and Antonia ing. Randolph are our new Council members. Con- gratulations Maxine, Mary, Elizabeth, and Antonia! Please note: We are looking for a RGC Newsletter Thanks to outgoing Council members Melanie Editor. Please consider nominating yourself or Bush and Celine-Marie Pascale and to student rep- someone else for this important position. The ASA resentative, Alexandra Murphy, and thanks also to provides support in producing the newsletter (thank continuing Council members Carla Brailey, Rodney you Diego de los Rios!), so it’s a less onerous task Coates, Erica Chito Childs, and Milagros Pena and than it has been in the past, and it’s a great opportu- student representative, Siobhan Brooks. nity to network and find out what’s going on in the section. We’ll be soliciting nominations at the We are trying something new with our reception Business meeting or send me your nominations this year! We’ll take a short stroll from the meeting anytime before the August meeting. The Race, hotels to Tapeo Restaurant (266 Newberry Street) Gender & Class section Business Meeting is on where we will co-host a joint reception with the Monday, August 4, 11:30-12:10 pm. Please check Environment and Technology section on Sunday, the program for the room and hotel. See you in August 3 from 6:00-8:30 pm. We will be crossing Boston! two boundaries with this one event—leaving the confines of the hotel and mixing our ideas and en- VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 PAGE 4 Articles and Books Written by Section Members !" “Contact and the Continuum of White Women’s Racial Awareness” by Katheryn A. Sweeney in Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2008): http:// repositories.cdlib.org/ucsb_ed/spaces/vol1/iss1/art5 !" "'And the Last Shall Be First': The Master-Slave Dialectic in Hegel, Nietzsche and Fanon" by Judith Rollins in Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Vol. V, Summer (2007). !" “Indigenous Movements and Globalization: What is Different? What is the Same?” by Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon. Globalizations 5:1 (March, 2008):1-11. !" “Locking up Hope: Immigration, Gender, and the Prison System” by Natalie J. Sokoloff and Susan C. Pearce. Scholar and Feminist Online, 6(3) (2008). !" “The Intersectional Paradigm and Alternative Visions to Stopping Domestic Violence: What Poor Women, Women of Color, and Immigrant Women Are Teaching Us about Violence in the Family” by Natalie J. Sokoloff. International Journal of Sociology of the Family (2008). !" "Expanding the Intersectional Paradigm to Better Understand Domestic Violence in Immigrant Com- munities" by Natalie J. Sokoloff. Critical Criminology (2008). !" Intimate Partner Violence by Angela J. Hattery. Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. !" Race, Human Rights, and Inequality by Angela J. Hattery, David G. Embrick,
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