Past research observing differences in environmental attitudes across racial and ethnic groups often mischaracterized those differences as deficits, casting environmental concern as a predominately White issue. Our study contributes to current work correcting this account by mapping substantive differences in the structure of climate attitudes across racial and ethnic groups. We use belief network analysis on 14 years of survey data from the Climate Change in the American Mind (CCAM) survey ( n = 20,396), and we find substantive differences in the climate belief networks of White, Black, and Hispanic survey respondents. These differences are not primarily about the strength or weakness of associations between attitudes, as theorized by deficit accounts. Instead, we find different attitudes are most central to these respective belief networks. We argue research on the social construction of race and ethnicity can better measure substantive variation in climate attitudes among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) respondents by attending to how racialized experiences with climate change may produce aggregated belief networks with different profiles of salient issues and different interpretive frameworks.
{"title":"Mapping Racial and Ethnic Variation in Climate Belief Networks","authors":"Evan Stewart, Katsyris Rivera-Kientz, Timothy Dacey","doi":"10.1177/23326492241259404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241259404","url":null,"abstract":"Past research observing differences in environmental attitudes across racial and ethnic groups often mischaracterized those differences as deficits, casting environmental concern as a predominately White issue. Our study contributes to current work correcting this account by mapping substantive differences in the structure of climate attitudes across racial and ethnic groups. We use belief network analysis on 14 years of survey data from the Climate Change in the American Mind (CCAM) survey ( n = 20,396), and we find substantive differences in the climate belief networks of White, Black, and Hispanic survey respondents. These differences are not primarily about the strength or weakness of associations between attitudes, as theorized by deficit accounts. Instead, we find different attitudes are most central to these respective belief networks. We argue research on the social construction of race and ethnicity can better measure substantive variation in climate attitudes among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) respondents by attending to how racialized experiences with climate change may produce aggregated belief networks with different profiles of salient issues and different interpretive frameworks.","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"50 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141345746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1177/23326492241247774
Marcus Bell
{"title":"Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life","authors":"Marcus Bell","doi":"10.1177/23326492241247774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241247774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141375034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1177/23326492241238945
Cecilia Menjívar, Andrea Gómez Cervantes
Central Americans historically have been denied U.S. asylum. From the moment they arrive, they become entangled in a punitive system that criminalizes them through an intricate network of social control sustained by state and private companies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in rural Kansas between 2016 and 2020 and interviews with Maya Guatemalan women and men asylum seekers, we examine the race and gender power dynamics reproduced through the asylum process that mimics the penal system. We examine three encounters with the asylum system: (1) the credible fear interview, (2) cash bonds, and (3) alternatives to detention programs. The asylum process (re)produces a continuum of state control that reflects the punishing tactics of the carceral state, leaving women and men embedded in the system and perpetually indebted. Maya Guatemalan women’s and men’s experiences navigating the asylum process underscore the intersecting mechanisms of race and gender at the center of the carceral state within the asylum system. Given the expansion of the punitive U.S. asylum bureaucracy, our findings will be relevant beyond our case study.
{"title":"Maya Guatemalans Seeking Asylum: Race and Gender in a Continuum of State Control","authors":"Cecilia Menjívar, Andrea Gómez Cervantes","doi":"10.1177/23326492241238945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241238945","url":null,"abstract":"Central Americans historically have been denied U.S. asylum. From the moment they arrive, they become entangled in a punitive system that criminalizes them through an intricate network of social control sustained by state and private companies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in rural Kansas between 2016 and 2020 and interviews with Maya Guatemalan women and men asylum seekers, we examine the race and gender power dynamics reproduced through the asylum process that mimics the penal system. We examine three encounters with the asylum system: (1) the credible fear interview, (2) cash bonds, and (3) alternatives to detention programs. The asylum process (re)produces a continuum of state control that reflects the punishing tactics of the carceral state, leaving women and men embedded in the system and perpetually indebted. Maya Guatemalan women’s and men’s experiences navigating the asylum process underscore the intersecting mechanisms of race and gender at the center of the carceral state within the asylum system. Given the expansion of the punitive U.S. asylum bureaucracy, our findings will be relevant beyond our case study.","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"37 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140374007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1177/23326492241236169
Jessica Stallone
{"title":"Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics","authors":"Jessica Stallone","doi":"10.1177/23326492241236169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241236169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"65 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140077978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/23326492241228794
Amaka Okechukwu
{"title":"Political Struggles over Black Memory","authors":"Amaka Okechukwu","doi":"10.1177/23326492241228794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241228794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"62 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139779889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/23326492241228787
Marbella Eboni Hill
{"title":"The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class","authors":"Marbella Eboni Hill","doi":"10.1177/23326492241228787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241228787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"48 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139841888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/23326492241228787
Marbella Eboni Hill
{"title":"The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class","authors":"Marbella Eboni Hill","doi":"10.1177/23326492241228787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241228787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139781888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/23326492241231580
Pamela Zabala Ortiz
{"title":"The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil","authors":"Pamela Zabala Ortiz","doi":"10.1177/23326492241231580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241231580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"12 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139779531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/23326492241228775
Karolina Staros
{"title":"Children of the Revolution: Violence, Inequality, and Hope in Nicaraguan Migration","authors":"Karolina Staros","doi":"10.1177/23326492241228775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241228775","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"45 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/23326492241231580
Pamela Zabala Ortiz
{"title":"The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil","authors":"Pamela Zabala Ortiz","doi":"10.1177/23326492241231580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241231580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":508679,"journal":{"name":"Sociology of Race and Ethnicity","volume":"67 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139839400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}