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Laboring in the Shadow of Empire
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization ...
Caribbean Men in the Arts
This collection showcases how different forms of manhood perform in artistic spaces. The selections take an in-depth review and exploration of the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who dare to carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance mediums. The pieces demonstrate that Caribbean men are forging more varied and wholesome ways to describe their masculinities, where they are allowed to thrive and engage in the same spaces without violence and exclusionary attitude, just as they can do in the arts. The manuscript also sets up a nucleus that will allow a progression of essential advances in the scholarly scrutiny of Black men and Black masculinities. This book will interest individuals in the arts, gender studies incorporating masculinities and femininities and black studies, and also prove to be useful for students in high schools and colleges/universities.
Whiteness and Nationalism
Naming whiteness is becoming an increasingly pressing issue across a variety of social and political contexts. In this book, an international set of authors discuss how and why this has come to be the case. Studying whiteness, as either a social identity or political ideology, is a relatively recent area of scholarship. Unusually, within the fields of race and ethnicity, it is a concept that sits at an intersection between historical privilege and identity. At the same time, ‘white privilege’ is not universally shared in (or can be distant to) how many white people feel they experience their identities. Whiteness as a site of privilege is therefore not absolute, but rather cross-cut by a...
Remaking a Life
In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women’s transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of “dying from” AIDS to “living with” it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS everyday.
Urban Ethnography
Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioners face today.
Theories of Race and Racism
Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader provides an overview of historical and contemporary debates in this vital and ever-evolving field of scholarship and research. Combining contributions from seminal thinkers, leading scholars and emergent voices, this reader provides a critical reflection on key trends and developments in the field. The contributions to this reader provide an overview of key areas of scholarship and research on questions of race and racism. It provides a novel perspective by bringing together readings on the key theoretical and historical processes in this area, the development of diverse theoretical viewpoints, the analysis of antisemitism, the role of colonialism and po...
Between Us
The perfect introduction to what sociology is and does, presented through powerful essays applying sociological concepts to personal experience The world is a tough place right now. Climate change, income inequality, racist violence, and the erosion of democracy have exposed the vulnerability of our individual and collective futures. But as the sociologists gathered here by Marika Lindholm and Elizabeth Wood show, no matter how helpless we might feel, it’s vital that we discover new paths toward healing and change. The short, accessible, emotionally and intellectually powerful essays in Between Us offer a transformative new way to think about sociology and its ability to fuel personal and ...
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The Sherertz-Sherrod Family, 1714-1984
Arnholtz Scherertz, parents not listed, was born about 1714 in the Palatinate of Rhineland, Prussia. He married Catharina, parents and surname not listed, before 1754. They had 6 children. His family immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1754, settling in York County, Pennsylvania. Arnholtz died in 1786 in York County, Pennsylvania. Catharina died sometime after 1786. Their descendants have lived in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, and other areas in the United States. .
