3412 - Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016) by Michele Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog, and Elisa Reis

Session Submission Type: Author Meets Critics Session

Description

Lamont et al. examine the experiences of discrimination and stigmatization--meaning disrespect or affronts to dignity, honor, relative status, or sense of self--reported by members of five groups in three countries: African Americans; black Brazilians; and in Israel, Arab/Palestinians, Ethiopian and Mizrahi Jews. Importantly, the authors also explore interviewees’ responses to these experiences, and identify five approaches: confrontation, self-management, nonresponse, focus on demonstrating competence, and self-isolation. To understand these results, Lamont et al. analyze the “microphenomena” of individual experiences of discrimination and stigmatization within two broader frameworks. One is a macrocomparative scheme that calls attention to historical, political and social differences between the national cases of Israel, Brazil, and the U.S.; the other is a meso-level lens that focuses on how cultural repertoires, institutions, and understandings of "groupness" contribute to the quest for "getting respect."

Sub Unit

• Author Meets Critics

Session Organizer

• Ann J. Morning, New York University

Authors

• Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

• Graziella Moraes D. Silva, Graduate Institute in Geneva - IHEID

• Jessica Welburn Paige, University of Iowa

• Josh Guetzkow, Hebrew University

• Nissim Mizrachi, Tel Aviv University

• Hanna Herzog, Tel-Aviv University

• Elisa P. Reis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Presider

• Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University

Critics

• Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced

• Iddo Tavory, NYU

• Tianna S. Paschel, University of California - Berkeley