Urban outcasts in America: caste, class, and state in the dark ghetto
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- "From
Slavery to Mass Incarceration: Rethinking the ‘Race Question’
in the United States." New Left Review, 2nd series,
13 (February 2003): 40-61.
- Reprinted in Patrick Weil et al. (eds.), Living Memory: Slavery,
Colonialism, and the Question of Integration in Europe and the Americas,
New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.
- To be Reprinted in Donaldo Macedo and Panayota Gounari (eds.), The
Globalization of Race, Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.
- French translation: "De l'esclavage à l'emprisonnement de masse:
repenser la 'question raciale' aux Etats-Unis," in Patrick Weil et
al. (eds.), La Mémoire vivante. Esclavage, colonisation et intégration
en Europe et aux Amériques, Paris, Presses Universitaires de
France, 2003.
- German: "Von der Sklaverei zur Masseneinkerkerung. Zur
'Rassenfrage' in den Vereinigten Staaten," Das
Argument (Berlin), 252, Special issue "Amerika
Denken," Fall 2003, pp. 529-545.
- Spanish translation: "De la esclavitud al encarcelamiento masivo,"
New Left Review (Spanish edition, Madrid), 13, March-April 2002, pp.
38-58.
- "The New 'Peculiar Institution': On the Prison as
Surrogate Ghetto" Theoretical Criminology , 4-3,
Special issue on "New Social Studies of the Prison" (2000,
edited by Mary Bosworth and Richard Sparks): 377-389.
- Reprinted in Stanley Cohen and Thomas Blomberg (eds.), Punishment
and Social Control, New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, pp. 471-482.
- Reprinted in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois (eds.),
Violence in War and Peace, Cambridge, Blackwell, 2003, pp 318-323.
- Reprinted in Shaun Gabbidon and Helen Taylor Greene (ed.), Race,
Crime and Justice: A Reader, New York, Routledge, 2005.
- French translation: "La prison comme substitut du ghetto:
la nouvelle 'institution particulière' de l'Amérique,"
Philosophie, Critique, Littérature, 24, October 2000, pp. 17-33
- Portuguese: "A nova 'instituçâo particular': a prisão como subsituto
do gueto," in Loïc Wacquant, Punir os pobres, Rio de Janeiro, Freitas
Bastos Editora, 2001, pp. 99-112.
- Spanish: "La nueva 'institución particular' de los Estados Unidos:
Sobre la prisión como sustituto del ghetto," in Pablo Perel (ed.),
Sociedad multicultural, racismo y democracia, Buenos Aires, Eudeba,
2003. Also as “Sobre la prisión como sustituto del ghetto,”
Potlach. Antropología y semiótica (Buenos
Aires), 2-2, Summer 2005, pp. 157-168.
- Also as "Sobre la prisión como sustituto del ghetto,"
Potlach. Cuaderno de antropología y semiótica (Buenos Aires), 1-2,
December 2004.
- "'A Black City Within the White': Revisiting America's
Dark Ghetto." Black Renaissance - Renaissance Noire 2-1
(Fall-Winter 1998): 141-151.
- Reprinted in The Knowledge Source, New York, SIRS, 1999.
- Brazilian translation: "Uma 'cidade negra dentro da
branca': revisitando o gueto negro da América,"
Polktica & Sociedade (Santa Catarina), 5 October
2004, pp. 261-276.
- French translation (revised and expanded version):
"Une 'ville noire dans la blanche': le ghetto étasunien
revisité," Actes de la recherche en sciences
sociales, 160, December 2005, pp. 22-31.
- "Inside
the Zone: The Social Art of the Hustler in the Black American Ghetto."
Theory, Culture, and Society 15-2 (May 1998): 1-36
- Originally in French as "'The Zone': Le métier de 'hustler'
dans le ghetto noir américain." Actes de la recherche
en sciences sociales 93 (June 1992): 38-58;
- German translation: "The Zone," in Pierre Bourdieu et al., Des
Elend der Welt, Konstanz, UVK Universitäatsverlag Konstanz,1997,
pp. 179-207;
- Spanish translation: "The Zone," in Pierre bourdieu et al., La
Miseria del mundo; Madrid, Eidiciones Akal; Buenos Aires and Mexico,
Fondo de Cultura Economica de Arentina, 1999, pp. 133-150.
- Portuguese translation (abridged): "The Zone," in Daniel
Soares Lins et al., Cultura e subjetividade. Saberes nômades,
Campinas, Papirus, 1997, pp. 49-68;
- full translation as "A Zona," in Pierre Bourdieu et al.,
A miséria do mundo, Petropolis, Editora Vozes, 1997,
pp. 177-201.
- "Negative Social Capital: State Breakdown and Social
Destitution in America's Urban Core." The Netherlands Journal
of the Built Environment (Special issue on "Spatial Segregation,
Concentration, and Ghetto Formation") 13-1 (1998): 25-40.
- "For an Analytic of Racial Domination." Political
Power and Social Theory 11 (Symposium on "Rethinking Race" with
Ann Laura Stoler, Patricia Dominguez, David Roediger, and Uday Singh Mehta),
1997: 221-234.
- German translation: "Für eine Analytik rassischer
Herrschaft," in Anja Weiss, Cornelia Koppetsch, Albert
Scharenberg, and Olivier Schmidtke (eds.), Klasse und
Klassifikation: Die Symbolische Dimension sozialer
Ungleichheit, Wiesbaden, Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001, pp.
61-78.
- "Three
Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto."
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20 (June 1997),
"Events and Debate" (with comments by Janet Abu-Lughod, Michael
Katz, Javier Auyero, Herbert Gans, Kenneth Kusmer, Paul Jargowski, Ceri
Peach and Sharon Zukin): 341-353.
- Reprinted in John M. Hagedorn (ed.), Gangs in the Global City:
Exploring Alternatives to Traditional Criminology , Urbana and
Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2003.
- Shorter version in Portuguese: "Três premissas perniciosas
no estudo do gueto norte-americano," Mana: Estudos de Antropologia
Social (Rio de Janeiro), 2-2, October 1996, pp. 145-161;
- French translation: "Trois tendances pernicieuses dans l'étude
du ghetto américain," M: Mensuel Marxisme Mouvement
(special issue on "Mégalopole USA"), 85-86, November-December
1996, pp. 36-41;
- German translation: "Drei irreführende Prämissen bei der Untersuchung
der amerikanischen Ghettos," in Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Rainer Dollase
and Otto Backes (Hrsg.), Die Krise der Städte: Analysen zu den
Folgen desintegrativer Stadentwicklung für das ethnisch-kulturelle
Zusammenleben, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998, pp. 194-210.
- "Elias
in the Dark Ghetto." Amsterdams Sociologisch Tidjschrift
24, 3/4 (December 1997): 340-348.
- Reprinted in Steven Quilley and Steven Loyal (eds.), Norbert
Elias: A Sociology for the New Century , Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
- Spanish translation: "Elias en al ghetto," Apuntes
de investigacion (Buenos Aires), 1-1, October 1997, pp. 13-21
(with a presentation by Javier Auyero, "Wacquant en la villa,"
pp. 7-12);
- Portuguese translation: "Elias no guetto," Revista
de Sociologia et Política (Curitiba, Brazil), 10-11, Spring 1998,
pp. 213-218.
- French translation: "Elias dans le ghetto noir," Politix:
Revue des sciences sociales du polique, 56, Fall 2001, pp. 209-218.
- "L’‘underclass’ urbaine dans l’imaginaire social et scientifique
américain." Pp. 248-262 in L’Exclusion. L’état des savoirs. Edited by
Serge Paugam. Paris: La
Découverte, 1996.
- Portuguese translation: “A ‘underclass’ urbana no imaginario
social e científico norte-americano,” Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, 31
(Rio de Janeiro), October 1997, pp.
37-50.
- "The New Urban Color Line: The State and Fate of the
Ghetto in Postfordist America." Pp. 231-276 in Social
Theory and the Politics of Identity. Edited by Craig J. Calhoun.
Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1994.
- Also in Craig J. Calhoun and George Ritzer (eds.), Social Problems,
New York, McGraw-Hill/PRIMIS, 1993, pp. 448-475, and idem, Perspectives
on Sociology, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 65-92; John Agnew
(ed.), Political Geography: A Reader, London, Edward Arnold
and New York, John Wiley, 1997, pp. 269-287.
- Italian translation: "La nuova demarcazione urbana di colore: la
condizione del ghetto nero americana oggi," in Paolo Guidicini and
Giovanni Pieretti (eds.), La residualita come valore: Poverta urbane
e dignita umana, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1993, pp. 238-271;
- Portuguese translation: "O estado e o destino do gueto: retraando
a linha de cor urbana na América pós-fordista,"
Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Rio de Janeiro), 26, September 1994,
pp. 99-140.