{"title":"Terrio, Susan J. 2015. Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody. University of California Press.","authors":"Julienne Obadia","doi":"10.1111/NAD.12047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/NAD.12047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/NAD.12047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63462010","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}
{"title":"Leitz, Lisa. 2014. Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement. University of Minnesota Press.","authors":"S. Gardiner","doi":"10.1111/NAD.12048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/NAD.12048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/NAD.12048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63462021","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}
Public discourse narrative positions Detroit's post-bankruptcy revitalization as a rapid process of business and investment descending upon the city. In spite of this narrative, Detroit today remains a city of intense poverty and inequality. Between 2009 and 2013, an estimated 39 percent of Detroit residents were living below the Federal Poverty Line. This figure renders Detroit as statistically the poorest city in the country. In addition to a mythical narrative of rapid-fire investment, popular media representations of Detroit are peppered with racialized references to white business investment. These references position whiteness as “saving” Detroit and center whiteness in the urban process. This racialized narrative is false and divisive in a city that is upwards of 83 percent African American. In this paper, we map the disparity between the racial politics of Detroit and the anti-black public discourse narrative currently surrounding the city. We demonstrate that the public discourse valorization of a profit-driven urban process results in an anti-black prioritization of whiteness in Detroit's post-bankruptcy redevelopment process. This narrative, if unchecked, will have serious consequences in the city's present and future. As such, we propose a re-centering of the blackness of the city and the racial politics of generations that have shaped current conditions, toward a more equitable recovery process.
{"title":"Blackness in Post‐Bankruptcy Detroit: Racial Politics and Public Discourse","authors":"Maya Stovall, Alex B. Hill","doi":"10.1111/NAD.12046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/NAD.12046","url":null,"abstract":"Public discourse narrative positions Detroit's post-bankruptcy revitalization as a rapid process of business and investment descending upon the city. In spite of this narrative, Detroit today remains a city of intense poverty and inequality. Between 2009 and 2013, an estimated 39 percent of Detroit residents were living below the Federal Poverty Line. This figure renders Detroit as statistically the poorest city in the country. In addition to a mythical narrative of rapid-fire investment, popular media representations of Detroit are peppered with racialized references to white business investment. These references position whiteness as “saving” Detroit and center whiteness in the urban process. This racialized narrative is false and divisive in a city that is upwards of 83 percent African American. In this paper, we map the disparity between the racial politics of Detroit and the anti-black public discourse narrative currently surrounding the city. We demonstrate that the public discourse valorization of a profit-driven urban process results in an anti-black prioritization of whiteness in Detroit's post-bankruptcy redevelopment process. This narrative, if unchecked, will have serious consequences in the city's present and future. As such, we propose a re-centering of the blackness of the city and the racial politics of generations that have shaped current conditions, toward a more equitable recovery process.","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/NAD.12046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63462000","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}
The shooting that left 49 people dead and 53 people injured at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida shined an international spotlight on the violent oppression of LGBTQ+ people. The significant loss of human life, the complex intersections of identity, and the horrific details of the crime brought numerous issues affecting the lives of LGBTQ+ people into public discourse. This essay contextualizes the narratives surrounding Pulse with a political economic analysis of the massacre, its antecedents, and its aftermaths. Advancing an anthropological perspective, I position the Pulse massacre at the nexus of militarism, neoliberalism, and multiculturalism and offer a critical lens for understanding the policies, practices, and processes imbricated in shooting. Broadly, this involves addressing issues of U.S. capitalist imperialism in the Middle East, neocolonialism in Puerto Rico, and diversity/inclusion in gay space.
{"title":"The Pulse Nightclub Shooting: Connecting Militarism, Neoliberalism, and Multiculturalism to Understand Violence","authors":"Zachary Blair","doi":"10.1111/NAD.12049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/NAD.12049","url":null,"abstract":"The shooting that left 49 people dead and 53 people injured at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida shined an international spotlight on the violent oppression of LGBTQ+ people. The significant loss of human life, the complex intersections of identity, and the horrific details of the crime brought numerous issues affecting the lives of LGBTQ+ people into public discourse. This essay contextualizes the narratives surrounding Pulse with a political economic analysis of the massacre, its antecedents, and its aftermaths. Advancing an anthropological perspective, I position the Pulse massacre at the nexus of militarism, neoliberalism, and multiculturalism and offer a critical lens for understanding the policies, practices, and processes imbricated in shooting. Broadly, this involves addressing issues of U.S. capitalist imperialism in the Middle East, neocolonialism in Puerto Rico, and diversity/inclusion in gay space.","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/NAD.12049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63462060","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}
How do American Charismatic Evangelicals imagine human difference? Ethnographic fieldwork with the Vineyard, a Southern California originated but now nation-wide Charismatic Evangelical movement, suggests that for many lay American Charismatic Evangelicals, difference is conceptualized in three different modes, involving potentialities, relations, and boundedness. Much like a grammar shapes communication without imposing a single meaning, these forms of conceiving human difference mandate no single intrinsic political position, but do affect the way that American Charismatic evangelicals express and contest notions of human difference.
{"title":"Apocalyptic Diversity, Demonic Anthropology, and the Evangelical Ēthnos: Modes of Imagining Difference among American Charismatic Evangelicals","authors":"Jon Bialecki","doi":"10.1111/NAD.12045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/NAD.12045","url":null,"abstract":"How do American Charismatic Evangelicals imagine human difference? Ethnographic fieldwork with the Vineyard, a Southern California originated but now nation-wide Charismatic Evangelical movement, suggests that for many lay American Charismatic Evangelicals, difference is conceptualized in three different modes, involving potentialities, relations, and boundedness. Much like a grammar shapes communication without imposing a single meaning, these forms of conceiving human difference mandate no single intrinsic political position, but do affect the way that American Charismatic evangelicals express and contest notions of human difference.","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/NAD.12045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63461973","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 : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01022.X
Alina Tănăsescu
Abstract: Despite the lack of systemic examination of the extent and manifestations of informal housing in Canadian cities, there is consistent evidence that it does occur and is tolerated by governments. This paper examines the persistence of illegal housing in Calgary to provide insights into processes that give rise to and motivate state toleration of illegal housing. It also explores the complex interactions between state agents, illegal housing operators, tenants, and communities to comment on how illegality is contested, reinforced, and even ignored by the various actors involved.
{"title":"Informal Housing in the Heart of the New West: An Examination of State Toleration of Illegality in Calgary","authors":"Alina Tănăsescu","doi":"10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01022.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01022.X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Despite the lack of systemic examination of the extent and manifestations of informal housing in Canadian cities, there is consistent evidence that it does occur and is tolerated by governments. This paper examines the persistence of illegal housing in Calgary to provide insights into processes that give rise to and motivate state toleration of illegal housing. It also explores the complex interactions between state agents, illegal housing operators, tenants, and communities to comment on how illegality is contested, reinforced, and even ignored by the various actors involved.","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01022.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63203140","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 : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01023.X
Bridget McDonnell
Abstract: This paper explores the controversy surrounding the proposed settlement of a group of Somali Bantu refugees in Cayce, South Carolina, in 2003. Focusing primarily on letters to the editor of a local newspaper, analysis emphasizes how community members debated and constructed issues of difference, race, culture, citizenship, and belonging.
{"title":"Our “Nation of Immigrants”: Conflict and Citizenship in a Refugee Relocation Program","authors":"Bridget McDonnell","doi":"10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01023.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01023.X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This paper explores the controversy surrounding the proposed settlement of a group of Somali Bantu refugees in Cayce, South Carolina, in 2003. Focusing primarily on letters to the editor of a local newspaper, analysis emphasizes how community members debated and constructed issues of difference, race, culture, citizenship, and belonging.","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/J.1556-4819.2009.01023.X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63202732","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 : 2008-05-01DOI: 10.1097/01.NNN.0000324750.58439.48
E. Stump
{"title":"SCREENING ROOM: Shaken","authors":"E. Stump","doi":"10.1097/01.NNN.0000324750.58439.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NNN.0000324750.58439.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NNN.0000324750.58439.48","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61700933","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 : 2004-01-01DOI: 10.1525/nad.2004.7.1.18.1
Donald Nonini
{"title":"Springtime in North Carolina: SANA 2004 Annual Meeting","authors":"Donald Nonini","doi":"10.1525/nad.2004.7.1.18.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/nad.2004.7.1.18.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/nad.2004.7.1.18.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67483425","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}
{"title":"From Ellis Island To JFK: The Meaning of Race in Two Immigration Eras","authors":"N. Foner","doi":"10.1525/NAD.2002.5.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/NAD.2002.5.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91935,"journal":{"name":"North American dialogue : newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1525/NAD.2002.5.1.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67482041","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}