30464 - Speculations

Description

This panel invites papers that are critical speculations in their broadest meaning. We seek papers that take risks, ask provocative questions, deploy unorthodox methodologies, think creatively with their sources, and draw on heretical frameworks which exceed the typical boundaries of social scientific research on race, gender, and class. Rather than adding to the mountains of existing data on marginalization and inequality, we invite panelists who yearn for new ways of carrying out the work we do: who seek not merely to document dying but presence and ways of living, who pursue wonder in the face of cynicism, who are experimenting creatively with scientific experiments, and who are eager to undiscipline sociology's strict disciplinarity.

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Speculations

Presider

• Jalia L. Joseph, James Madison University

Individual Presentations

• Beauty Politics and Poetic Analysis: Embodied Empowerment through Poetry - Brittney Miles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Unspoken Racial Dynamics: The Racial Identity Formation of Black African Immigrant-Origin Youth in South Korea - Jiwon Choi, University at Albany, SUNY

• We Built a Life: A palimpsest of Black worlds in Staten Island - Shavaun Sutton, Northeastern University

• Performative Irruptions: Nicki Minaj and Her Use of the Word Epilepsy in “We Go Up.” - Rachel Leah Jack, Princeton University; Jorie Hofstra, Princeton University

Discussant

• Jalia L. Joseph, James Madison University

Session Organizer

• Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University