Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race最新文献

Miscegenation Madness: Interracial Intimacy and the Politics of ‘Purity’ in Twentieth-Century South Africa 疯狂混血：二十世纪南非的种族间亲密关系与 "纯洁 "政治

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000080

Sebastian Jackson

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Four More Years! or So What?: The Mental Health Significance of Barack Obama’s 2012 Presidential Re-Election among Black Adults 再干四年！又如何？奥巴马 2012 年连任总统对黑人成年人心理健康的意义

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000043

Tony N. Brown, Quintin Gorman Jr., Julian Culver, Asia Bento

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Principle-Policy and Principle-Personal Gaps in Americans’ Diversity Attitudes 美国人多元化态度中的原则-政策差距和原则-个人差距

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000079

Neeraj Rajasekar, Evan Stewart, Douglas Hartmann

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Royalty, Racism, and Risk: An Analysis of Du Bois’s Thesis on Black Masculinity Among Young Black People with Diverse Sexual Identities 王权、种族主义与风险：杜波依斯关于具有不同性特征的黑人青年中的黑人男性气质的论文分析

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000055

Sandra L. Barnes

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Foreshadowing Du Bois: James McCune Smith and the Shaping of Nineteenth Century Black Social Scientists 杜波依斯的先驱：詹姆斯-麦库内-史密斯与十九世纪黑人社会科学家的塑造

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000067

Kelly Harris

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Sex Matters: The Impact of Skin Tone on Perceived Levels of Attraction 性别问题：肤色对感知吸引力水平的影响

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000031

Callie Vitro, Talisa J. Carter

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Oppressive Even As It Inspires: Approaching Black American Centrality in the Age of the Black European Renaissance 压迫性的灵感：在欧洲黑人文艺复兴时代走近美国黑人的中心地位

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x2400002x

Laura Visser-Maessen, Jorrit Van den Berk

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How American Am I?: Comparing American Identity among U.S. Black Muslims 我有多美国？美国黑人穆斯林的美国身份比较

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x24000018

Jauhara Ferguson

{"title":"How American Am I?: Comparing American Identity among U.S. Black Muslims","authors":"Jauhara Ferguson","doi":"10.1017/s1742058x24000018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x24000018","url":null,"abstract":"Much sociological attention has focused on Black identity within the United States. Less attention, however, has been given to understanding how immigrant and native-born streams of U.S. Black Muslims articulate American identity. In this study I ask: how do second-generation Black American Muslims and indigenous Black American Muslims compare in the ways they narrate connections among race, American identity, and Islam? Using data from thirty-one in-depth interviews with Black Muslims living in Houston, TX, I find that racial double-consciousness complicates American identity for respondents. While indigenous Black American respondents critique racist U.S. histories and structural inequities, I argue that in certain spaces Muslim identity reinforces American identity. For second-generation respondents, however, American identity is reinforced through embracing immigrant status. This study extends Du Boisian double-consciousness by making a case for “layered double-consciousness.” I argue that layered double-consciousness better explains how Black Muslims perceive their racial, religious, and national identities across macro levels within the context of the United States and meso levels within the Muslim American community.","PeriodicalId":47158,"journal":{"name":"Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139925650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mitigating Unemployment Stigma: Racialized Differences in Impression Management among Urban and Suburban Jobseekers 减轻失业耻辱：城市和郊区求职者在印象管理方面的种族差异

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x23000218

Allen Heffner

{"title":"Mitigating Unemployment Stigma: Racialized Differences in Impression Management among Urban and Suburban Jobseekers","authors":"Allen Heffner","doi":"10.1017/s1742058x23000218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x23000218","url":null,"abstract":"The stigma faced by unemployed Americans places a toll on their wellbeing and decreases their life chances. While all unemployed Americans are subject to stigmatization, the stigma levied on Black Americans may be particularly potent due to racializing stereotypes that associate Blackness with the undeserving poor, including the inability to obtain employment. Given the social and economic challenges Black people face, research elucidating the racial complexities of unemployment stigma is needed. Through in-depth open format face-to-face interviews of unemployed individuals residing in urban and suburban areas, this study produces an alternative perspective on how impression management techniques are connected to both internalization and mitigation of unemployment stigma. This study contributes to employment, race, and stigma literature by providing a theoretical frame that synthesizes Du Boisian and dramaturgical concepts to conceptualize an “unemployed worker-self.” Through this framing, I find variations across race and community type in impression management techniques executed by unemployed people. I conclude with suggestions for future research and potential applications for the theoretical frame developed in this study.","PeriodicalId":47158,"journal":{"name":"Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139649395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Quantitative Inquiry in the Early Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois 杜波依斯早期社会学中的定量研究

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Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s1742058x23000206

Jordan A. Conwell, Kevin Loughran

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