EA Viruell-Fuentes, PY Miranda, S Abdulrahim - Social science & medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
Explanations for immigrant health outcomes often invoke culture through the use of the concept of acculturation. The over reliance on cultural explanations for immigrant health …
Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and …
In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain …
M Lamont - American Sociological Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This Presidential Address offers elements for a systematic and cumulative study of destigmatization, or the process by which low-status groups gain recognition and worth …
“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it.”–Esperanza Over two million of the nation's eleven million …
This book examines how ordinary people understand stigma and discrimination, and how they respond to such experiences. We conducted more than 400 in-depth interviews with …
The project behind this book started shortly after Gender and Nation (1997, Sage) was published, although it took quite a few years before it was crystallized into this format. In a …
M Lamont, V Molnár - Annual review of sociology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and …
L Chavez - The Latino Threat, 2013 - degruyter.com
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying …