davidVery excited to say that this paper is finally out in PNAS!
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2120288120 1/9
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2120288120 1/9
Mireia
- 175 Followers
- 52 Following
- 14 Posts
call me \mi-rɛ'-jə\ PhD student in sociology at Columbia. my typos do not discriminate based on language
pengzell.bsky.socialThe Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) invite applications for visiting researchers. Spend 2-8 weeks doing research on the theme "Policies to Fight Inequality" using LIS data.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/files/LIS(2)ER-Call-Research-Stays.pdf
Winter MasonWe're hiring an intern! If you know a grad student interested in racial equity issues in the context of social media, with good data analysis and coding skills, let me know and/or apply here: https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/626644789205654/
Ea Hoppe BlaabækWouldn't you love to do a postdoc about which lifestyle you have to have to impress others?
Mads Jæger is hiring a 2 y. postdoc to collect (experimental) survey data and study lifestyles, cultural hierarchies and social distinction.
As bonus Mads is an awsome and supportive PI plus you get to live in lovely Copenhagen and work with the great people at the sociology department at the University of Copenhagen!
https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=158141
Valentina Di Stasio📢📢 POSTDOC JOB!!!
Come work with me as #postdoc at Utrecht University on the #HorizonEU project EQUALSTRENGTH.
We apply experimental designs to capture how ethnic #discrimination cumulates across settings. Join an international team of scholars from 9 countries.
@UtrechtUniversiteit
@sociology @sociologists_list
@academicchatter @socialpsych
MIBantaHey, Wordle & Spelling Bee fans. The NYTimes Guild is asking readers not to engage at all with the NYT tomorrow, Thursday, as they do their walkout. I'm not going to cross that digital picket line. If you support the workers at the NYT, stay off the site tomorrow, from midnight -> 11:59 pm. No news, no games, no nothin'.
The case of the Spanish erasure of “race” also shows how racial classifcatory systems respond and adapt to social and politcal moments. At a time when European integration was a high political goal and immigration was dramatically increasing in Spain, the resulting “cultural” classificatory system proved to be more flexible and better equipped at classifying Spaniards within a larger “European culture” while drawing harsher boundaries between Spaniards and non-European immigrants.
A revealing exception to the removal of racial vocabulary from the textbooks is the continuation of the use of the category Black. The persistence of “Blackness” creates a process of “asymetric racialization”, by which Black populations continue to be racialized, while white people in Europe can symbolically remove themselves from the racial hierarchy in a way that makes racial inequality seem an issue of only those who are racialized.
I find that while biological race is at face value being directly challenged in Spanish textbooks, the turn to culture as a classificatory system only satisfies the most superficial goal of abandoning biological race science: that of removing its vocabulary.
Culture paradoxically legitimizes and enables the belief in naturally different people, differences that are innate and essential, cannot be overcome and that are visible and recognizable in phenotypical markers.
Using the unique case of Spain, where racial vocabulary was prevalent in social science textbooks until the 1990s and was then abruptly removed from them, I trace the ways race continues to structure the social world presented in the books through the vocabulary of culture.
Analyzing 82 textbooks in Spain from 1975 till 2017, I suggest that we can’t understand current conceptions of culture-based classification systems in Europe without understanding in what ways they are rooted in racial ones.