Colloquia
Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
MONDAYS, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Mandingo, Willie Horton, & the Pretty Boy: How black men’s bodies structure achievement in education, career, romance, and family
This report on preliminary analyses describes data collected during open-ended interviews with middle class black men on their achievement of education, career, and family outcomes. Data from black men who have earned 4-year college degrees or served for more than six years in military, police, or firefighter service occupations indicates at least four ways in which they invoked descriptions of their bodies to explain opportunities and constraints faced over the life course. Such men most often described the reactions others had to their size and complexion when explaining why and how they negotiated for or were constrained from involvement in particular educational, employment, and romantic activities. The report concludes with a discussion of the symbolic role played by racialized and gendered bodies in the reproduction of multiple social hierarchies.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Still Playing by the Rules: Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Constructing the Global Economy