The Racialized Gendered State: Constructions of Citizenship in the United States

Boris, Eileen

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“…Here the lines were clearly drawn in which the Roma formed the bulk of perceived non-deserving poor and poverty was identified as a Roma problem attributed to their character flaws and their poor attitude toward work (Szalai, 2003;2014a). As was true in the American welfare system, deservedness was constructed in terms of types of entitlements (Boris, 1995;Fraser and Gordon, 1994), pensions and social security and benefits were the legitimate channel for state expenditures; welfare, became a derogatory term for those on the dole, viewed as freeloaders, intertwined with race.…”

Section: Recognition Struggles In Historical Socio-political Contextmentioning

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Revisiting Recognition and Redistribution and Extending the Borders

Hobson¹

2018

Intersections

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This article revisits the recognition and redistribution debates emerging from Nancy Fraser's 1995 agenda article underscoring the dangers in the rise of identity politics and displacement of economic justice in postsocialist age. Júlia Szalai has been a crucial actor in reshaping the research on recognition struggles, and I will focus on the important contribution of her research on the Roma. Looking beyond dichotomy in recognition and redistribution, Szalai's research has highlighted the interplay and overlapping configurations in recognition struggles: their institutional and historical embeddedness and their emphasis on political agency and voice. Her analysis of the multiple and interacting processes of exclusion of the Roma in Central Europe, including the spatial, educational and employment dimensions and the lack of political representation, reflect a near congruence in misrecognition and malredistribution. Her research highlights shifts in the discourse from the cultural wars to the redistributional wars in neo-liberal market economies between those who have lost status and income in the dominant population and the most vulnerable (minority and migrant populations). Finally, Szalai's research and writings have extended the theoretical and empirical borders on recognition struggles, engaging with the frameworks of intersectionalities and capabilities both of which offer lenses for revealing complex inequalities and the tensions within the paradigms for social justice that have inspired my own research.

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Revisiting Recognition and Redistribution and Extending the Borders

Hobson¹

2018

Intersections

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“…Additional recent works that cite the racial state, in passing or in depth, cover topics of great range, many of which could be fruitfully reconsidered from an empire-state approach to the US racial state and all of which is compatible with it: census (Haney-López 2005), education (McCarthy 2008(McCarthy , 2009), environment (Kurtz 2009), Hurricane Katrina (Camp 2009;Giroux 2006), intersectionality with gender and sexuality (Alexander-Floyd 2007;Boris 1995;Reddy 2011;Glenn 2002;Kandaswamy 2012), miscegenation (Pascoe 2010), subprime mortgages (Wyly 2010), transnational racial ideology in Korea and Korean America (Kim 2006), and Vietnamese refugees (Espiritu 2006). Beyond engaging and adding to the foregoing literatures, the pressing task for sociology is to incorporate their insights and rework the generative theories of Omi and Winant and others toward a more effective analysis and critique of the US racial state.…”

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Theorizing the US Racial State: Sociology Since Racial Formation

Jung

Kwon

2013

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews theoretical developments in the sociology of the US racial state since the publication of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's groundbreaking Racial Formation in the United States. After briefly outlining their theory, it surveys the still diminutive literature and concludes by pointing to promising future directions, drawing on insights from other disciplines and incipient stirrings from within sociology. Destabilizing the unquestioned assumption that the United States is and has been a nation‐state, the article reconceptualizes it as an empire‐state. This turn establishes a firmer footing for the claim that the United States is intrinsically a racial state and yields a generative framework for reconsidering and stimulating scholarship toward more effective analysis and critique.

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“…See, e.g., Bellingham and Mathis 1994;Boris 1995;Gal 1994;Goodwin 1997;Gordon 1994;Hobson 1993;Koven and Michel 1990;Lake 1994;Mink 1998;Roberts 1995;Skocpol 1992;Valverde 1992-all work that was first presented in these SSHA "miniconferences" in the 1990s, which also featured work reflecting the cultural turn, e.g., Bannerji 2001;Stoler 2002. The SSHA program cochairs Jennifer Mittelstadt and Kimberly Morgan have contributed to the scholarship on gender and welfare in the 2000s (see Mittelstadt 2005;Morgan 2006).…”

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Remaking Power and Politics

Orloff¹

2012

Social Science History

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The Racialized Gendered State: Constructions of Citizenship in the United States

Cited by 70 publications

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Revisiting Recognition and Redistribution and Extending the Borders

Revisiting Recognition and Redistribution and Extending the Borders

Theorizing the US Racial State: Sociology Since Racial Formation

Remaking Power and Politics

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