4344 - Culture, Racialization and Intersectionality (Co-sponsored with the Section on Race, Gender, and Class)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

As the gospel of intersectionality spreads among sociologists and lay audiences, many observers lament a shift in focus and slippage in meaning. Crenshaw's initial theory of intersectionality emphasized structural and legal realities, and the harm caused by interlocking race, gender, and class oppression. More recent invocations of intersectionality occasionally focus on identity at the expense of institutional power. Cultural sociologists are especially well equipped to bridge this gap, as we investigate relationships between institutions and the people who work, play, and create meaning within them. This session will highlight cultural sociology approaches to intersectionality as an essential consideration in the study of racialization. We invite papers with new and inventive applications of intersectionality to topics including, but not limited to, processes of identity and group formation, cultural production, and value/belief systems. Historical and contemporary studies are welcome, as are multidisciplinary approaches to the study of culture and racialization.

Sub Unit

• Section on the Sociology of Culture / Culture, Racialization and Intersectionality (Cosponsored with the Section on Race, Gender, and Class)

Session Organizer

• Michael Jeffries, Wellesley College

Presider

• Michael Jeffries, Wellesley College

Individual Presentations

• Gender and the Face of Multiraciality - Jiayi Janet Xu, Princeton University; Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University; Ann J. Morning, New York University; Sarah Iverson, New York University

• “Nasty men &Ghetto Girls”: Blackness, Indianness, and Sexual Visibility Politics in New York's Party Scene - Anjanette Marie Chan Tack, University of Chicago

• Patienthood as Identity and the Intersectional Failings of the Clinic - Jennifer Elyse James, University of California, San Francisco

• Why Desire Asians? Gendered Racialized Attraction Among Whites Intermarried to Asians in the US - Louise Ly, University of California, Berkeley