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Springer eBooks, 2018
By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study c... more By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study contributes to our understanding of racial formation. The study analyzes the organizational and representational practices of this voluntary desegregation tool—a partial-site magnet program for “gifted” students—and its impact on students inside and outside the program. In doing so, the study reveals how, in contrast to its stated mission, this form of voluntary desegregation actually constitutes a form of resegregation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research reveals a series of practices that have produced exclusionary access to the gifted program, limited the interaction between magnet and non-magnet students, and instituted an apparently color-blind discourse of the gifted as in need of protection, all contributing to a widespread though complex and contradictory notion of whiteness as giftedness. Such notions run counter to the original intent of the desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Revealing the processes by which a desegregation instrument facilitates such contradictory outcomes provides critical insights into the dynamic nature of racial formation.
Begabung und Gesellschaft, 2018
By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study c... more By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study contributes to our understanding of racial formation. The study analyzes the organizational and representational practices of this voluntary desegregation tool—a partial-site magnet program for “gifted” students—and its impact on students inside and outside the program. In doing so, the study reveals how, in contrast to its stated mission, this form of voluntary desegregation actually constitutes a form of resegregation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research reveals a series of practices that have produced exclusionary access to the gifted program, limited the interaction between magnet and non-magnet students, and instituted an apparently color-blind discourse of the gifted as in need of protection, all contributing to a widespread though complex and contradictory notion of whiteness as giftedness. Such notions run counter to the original intent of the desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Revealing the processes by which a desegregation instrument facilitates such contradictory outcomes provides critical insights into the dynamic nature of racial formation.
This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe... more This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe pimps and the influence they have in the brothel and in their lives. Over the last years, scholars, activists, and lawmakers working on prostitution have looked critically to Germany—which legalized prostitution in 2002—and to what extent this improved the working conditions and lives of sex workers there. The brothel under study is one of the many new upscale sauna clubs that have sprung up all over Germany. In contrast to the club’s claims as a model for legal prostitution, sex workers, clients, and even a substantial number of employees often talked about the sex workers who were working for pimps, about pimps’ mingling among customers, about their attempts to recruit new girls as well as their surveillance and the stress that caused. Even though this study relies on statements about pimps, the preponderance of this subject and prostitution insiders’ pervasive concern with them sugge...
Third Party Sex Work and Pimps in the Age of Anti-trafficking, 2017
This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe... more This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe pimps and the influence they have in the brothel and in their lives. Over the last years, scholars, activists, and lawmakers working on prostitution have looked critically to Germany—which legalized prostitution in 2002—and to what extent this improved the working conditions and lives of sex workers there. The brothel under study is one of the many new upscale sauna clubs that have sprung up all over Germany. In contrast to the club’s claims as a model for legal prostitution, sex workers, clients, and even a substantial number of employees often talked about the sex workers who were working for pimps, about pimps’ mingling among customers, about their attempts to recruit new girls as well as their surveillance and the stress that caused. Even though this study relies on statements about pimps, the preponderance of this subject and prostitution insiders’ pervasive concern with them suggest that they play a significant role even in legal and upscale prostitution.
Symbolic Interaction, 2005
Paedagogica Historica, 2005
Anthropological Quarterly
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10665680590910860, Aug 15, 2006
Social Problems, 2004
... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... more ... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... programs because their parents pushed them, not because they were gifted; and Latinos ... But more common than explicit references naturalizing white giftedness were what Perry (2001 ...
Social Problems, 2004
... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... more ... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... programs because their parents pushed them, not because they were gifted; and Latinos ... But more common than explicit references naturalizing white giftedness were what Perry (2001 ...
Paedagogica Historica, 2005
Symbolic Interaction, 2005
Equity & Excellence in Education, 2005
Vocational educational has long struggled with a reputation as a lower track and dead end for soc... more Vocational educational has long struggled with a reputation as a lower track and dead end for socially disadvantaged populations. Since the alarm call in the 1980s about the “forgotten half,” significant efforts have been expended to develop reform programs that provide disadvantaged populations viable options that would enhance their academic and economic prospects. However, considering the fact that such reform programs consist of a disproportionate numbers of Latinos and African Americans, how do we know that such reforms are not reproducing structures of racial domination? This article, an ethnographic study of a promising vocational education reform, examines race-making in the institutional organization, the representational practices, and the perspectives of students and teachers inside and outside this reform program. I argue that although the academy was a success story to some extent, it encountered negative stereotypes from its host school, while indirectly producing conditions that racially stigmatized its population. This poses questions about racial equity and the role of the institutional culture of the host school in implementing vocational reform programs.
Springer eBooks, 2018
By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study c... more By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study contributes to our understanding of racial formation. The study analyzes the organizational and representational practices of this voluntary desegregation tool—a partial-site magnet program for “gifted” students—and its impact on students inside and outside the program. In doing so, the study reveals how, in contrast to its stated mission, this form of voluntary desegregation actually constitutes a form of resegregation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research reveals a series of practices that have produced exclusionary access to the gifted program, limited the interaction between magnet and non-magnet students, and instituted an apparently color-blind discourse of the gifted as in need of protection, all contributing to a widespread though complex and contradictory notion of whiteness as giftedness. Such notions run counter to the original intent of the desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Revealing the processes by which a desegregation instrument facilitates such contradictory outcomes provides critical insights into the dynamic nature of racial formation.
Begabung und Gesellschaft, 2018
By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study c... more By examining a gifted magnet of an urban California high school as a racial project, this study contributes to our understanding of racial formation. The study analyzes the organizational and representational practices of this voluntary desegregation tool—a partial-site magnet program for “gifted” students—and its impact on students inside and outside the program. In doing so, the study reveals how, in contrast to its stated mission, this form of voluntary desegregation actually constitutes a form of resegregation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research reveals a series of practices that have produced exclusionary access to the gifted program, limited the interaction between magnet and non-magnet students, and instituted an apparently color-blind discourse of the gifted as in need of protection, all contributing to a widespread though complex and contradictory notion of whiteness as giftedness. Such notions run counter to the original intent of the desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Revealing the processes by which a desegregation instrument facilitates such contradictory outcomes provides critical insights into the dynamic nature of racial formation.
This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe... more This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe pimps and the influence they have in the brothel and in their lives. Over the last years, scholars, activists, and lawmakers working on prostitution have looked critically to Germany—which legalized prostitution in 2002—and to what extent this improved the working conditions and lives of sex workers there. The brothel under study is one of the many new upscale sauna clubs that have sprung up all over Germany. In contrast to the club’s claims as a model for legal prostitution, sex workers, clients, and even a substantial number of employees often talked about the sex workers who were working for pimps, about pimps’ mingling among customers, about their attempts to recruit new girls as well as their surveillance and the stress that caused. Even though this study relies on statements about pimps, the preponderance of this subject and prostitution insiders’ pervasive concern with them sugge...
Third Party Sex Work and Pimps in the Age of Anti-trafficking, 2017
This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe... more This paper examines how different actors in an upscale brothel in Germany experience and describe pimps and the influence they have in the brothel and in their lives. Over the last years, scholars, activists, and lawmakers working on prostitution have looked critically to Germany—which legalized prostitution in 2002—and to what extent this improved the working conditions and lives of sex workers there. The brothel under study is one of the many new upscale sauna clubs that have sprung up all over Germany. In contrast to the club’s claims as a model for legal prostitution, sex workers, clients, and even a substantial number of employees often talked about the sex workers who were working for pimps, about pimps’ mingling among customers, about their attempts to recruit new girls as well as their surveillance and the stress that caused. Even though this study relies on statements about pimps, the preponderance of this subject and prostitution insiders’ pervasive concern with them suggest that they play a significant role even in legal and upscale prostitution.
Symbolic Interaction, 2005
Paedagogica Historica, 2005
Anthropological Quarterly
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 10665680590910860, Aug 15, 2006
Social Problems, 2004
... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... more ... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... programs because their parents pushed them, not because they were gifted; and Latinos ... But more common than explicit references naturalizing white giftedness were what Perry (2001 ...
Social Problems, 2004
... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... more ... informed about gifted programs and teachers less perceptive of exceptional talent in African ... programs because their parents pushed them, not because they were gifted; and Latinos ... But more common than explicit references naturalizing white giftedness were what Perry (2001 ...
Paedagogica Historica, 2005
Symbolic Interaction, 2005
Equity & Excellence in Education, 2005
Vocational educational has long struggled with a reputation as a lower track and dead end for soc... more Vocational educational has long struggled with a reputation as a lower track and dead end for socially disadvantaged populations. Since the alarm call in the 1980s about the “forgotten half,” significant efforts have been expended to develop reform programs that provide disadvantaged populations viable options that would enhance their academic and economic prospects. However, considering the fact that such reform programs consist of a disproportionate numbers of Latinos and African Americans, how do we know that such reforms are not reproducing structures of racial domination? This article, an ethnographic study of a promising vocational education reform, examines race-making in the institutional organization, the representational practices, and the perspectives of students and teachers inside and outside this reform program. I argue that although the academy was a success story to some extent, it encountered negative stereotypes from its host school, while indirectly producing conditions that racially stigmatized its population. This poses questions about racial equity and the role of the institutional culture of the host school in implementing vocational reform programs.