467 - Regular Session. New Directions in the Study of the Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Conflict

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

For some time, sociologists have argued that race and ethnicity are complex and internally variable social phenomena that are constructed in particular socio-historical contexts, not immutable social categories. This understanding has opened new analytic opportunities for the study of racial and ethnic conflict, but also poses difficult challenges of identifying and tracing such conflicts in specific interactional and social contexts. The four papers in this session provide innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the dynamics of racial and ethnic conflict.

Sub Unit

• Ethnic Conflict

Session Organizer

• Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh

Presider

• David Cunningham, Brandeis University

Individual Presentations

• Double Legitimacy Crises and Dynamics of Contention in Ethnic Democracies - Gregory Maney, Hofstra University

• Emergence of Armed Resistance against Insurgent Violence during Civil War - Daniel Blocq, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Lynch Victims as Marginal Men? Community Characteristics, Outsider Status, and Vulnerability to Mob Violence - Amy Kate Bailey, University of Illinois-Chicago; Stewart E. Tolnay, University of Washington

• The Production of Local Race Relations: Race, Crime, and Politics in Multiracial Neighborhoods - Jan Doering, University of Chicago

Discussant

• Rory M. McVeigh, University of Notre Dame