4147 - Global and Transnational Approaches to Culture and Power (Co-sponsored with the Section on Global and Transnational Sociology)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Both members of dominant and marginalized populations must negotiate, contest, or reproduce the social boundaries that lead to inequality around the world. At the heart of this is how people make meaning of these processes, whether through the use of cultural repertoires, framing issues for their constituencies, or story-telling, among others. For this panel, we will examine these social phenomena, whether from members of marginalized or dominant peoples, to have a better grasp of how social actors navigate unequal societies globally. This panel will especially provide a critical approach to racial, ethnic, gender, religious, and class boundaries or any combination of these social categories in global or transnational contexts. Overall, it will illustrate the link between this meaning-making and building particular strategies of action, including everything from silencing undesired voices to starting or engaging social movements, whether locally or globally.

Sub Unit

• Section on the Sociology of Culture / Global and Transnational Approaches to Culture and Power (Cosponsored with the Section on Global and Transnational Sociology)

Session Organizer

• Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers University-Camden

Presider

• Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers University-Camden

Individual Presentations

• In America, I’m Just Black: Black American Experiences with Privilege and Oppression in Paris - Sonita Moss, University of Pennsylvania

• Inclusion and Alterity: An analysis of American flag hijab discourse - Deniz Uyan, Boston College

• In the Shadow of Hollywood: The Racial Politics of Independent Filmmakers of Color in Los Angeles - Michael Tuan Tran, UCLA

• Race-ing Across the Border: Comparative Constructions of Race and Inequality in Mexico and the U.S. - Sylvia Zamora, Loyola Marymount University

• The Dark Side of a Golden Ticket by Imoagene and Jacobs - Onoso Ikphemi Imoagene, New York University Abu Dhabi; Elizabeth Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania