Patricia Zavella

White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness.

Traditional debates concerning racially hierarchical societies have tended to focus on the experience of being black. White Women, Race Matters breaks with this tradition by focusing on the particular ecperiences of white women in a racially hierarchical society. By considering the ways in which their experience not only contributes to but challenges the reproduction of racism, the work offers a rigorous examination of existing methodologies, practices and assumptions concerning racism and gender relations. Supported by extracts from in-depth life history interviews, White Women, Race Matters provides valuable course material.

Sunbelt working mothers : reconciling family and factory

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Introduction: Gendered Borderlands

With Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa burst onto the feminist conceptual scene offering new ways of exploring relationships of power and domination, resistance and agency, among women and men hitherto cast as marginalized “others.” Anzaldúa acknowledges the pain and anguish of otherness and seeks to reclaim its latent power by exploring how disempowered subjects labeled as “other” express their identities and resistance. She coins the term mestiza consciousness to reflect border subjects’ expressions of agency that incorporate spiritual transformations and psychic processes of exclusion and identification—of feeling “in between” cultures, languages, or places. Anzaldúa also delves into the origins and conditions that construct and reinforce otherness. Her theoretical formulation of “borderlands” expounds on the dynamics within material and discursive spaces that transcend geopolitical border areas, where women, men, and youth, straight and queer, adapt, resist, and develop new strategies to negotiate social inequalities. Anzaldúa’s creative reflections about fluid borders and borderlands have influenced many fields. Until recently these concepts, borders and borderlands, have not been problematized or operationalized in sociological research (Martinez 2002). All too often “borderlands” is used as a catchall that signifies, among other things, uncharted territory or subjects whose identities are outside the mainstream. This uncritical use of borderlands as a proxy for analyses of complex relationships between structure and agency that are not situated regionally or historically is problematic. Understanding the intersections of historically specific regional dynamics, institutional configurations, and cultural expressions would generate exciting theoretical and empirical work on gender and borderlands. There are

Latinos in the USA: Changing socio-economic patterns

This paper aims to provide an overview of socio-economic inequality experienced by Latinas and Latinos, suggesting that the increase in numbers and their dispersal throughout the country disrupts the traditional black–white paradigm used in race relations theory. Instead, I argue that the particular historical and geographical experiences of Latinas/os portend complex changes within labour markets and neighbourhoods and across families, ultimately challenging how we think about race relations in the USA.

Beyond the Screams: Latino Punkeros Contest Nativist Discourses

In debates about migration from Mexico, popular culture, especially music, can be an important political space for expressing feelings and thoughts about nativist discourses. Ann Cvetkovich’s notion of “archives of feelings” is helpful for understanding political texts that address the plight of Mexicans in music. Performances become reflexive spaces that foster agency by allowing for a critique of politics from outside of and within Latino communities. Interviews with participants in the Latino punk scene and an interpretation of the documentary film Beyond the Screams/Más allá de los gritos show how punk lyrics, musical performances, and representations become interpretive sites when performed in public. The texts and performances discussed here create powerful transnational archives of feelings that contest official stories about the subordination of Mexicans and all Latinos. En los debates sobre la migración mexicana, la cultura popular, especialmente la música, puede convertirse en un importante espacio político para expresar sentimientos y pensamientos acerca de los discursos nativistas. La noción de “archivos de sentimientos” (archives of feelings) propuesta por Ann Cvetkovich resulta útil para entender los textos políticos que se ocupan, musicalmente, de la difícil situación de los mexicanos. Las actuaciones se convierten en espacios de reflexión que promueven la agencia al presentar una crítica política desde fuera y dentro de las comunidades latinas. Entrevistas con los participantes en la escena punk latina y una interpretación de la película documental Beyond the Screams/Más allá de los gritos muestran cómo las letras de canciones punk, las actuaciones musicales y sus representaciones se convierten en sitios de interpretación cuando se realizan públicamente. Los textos y actuaciones aquí discutidos crean archivos transnacionales de sentimiento que refutan las historias oficiales sobre la subordinación de los mexicanos y todos los latinos.

Intersectional Praxis in the Movement for Reproductive Justice: The Respect ABQ Women Campaign

Intersectionality has been a capacious theoretical framework for understanding and enacting political praxis. Activists using an intersectional approach must cultivate flexibility and negotiate dynamics of difference and solidarity in relation to axes of power in local movement contexts. Recent scholarship on intersectional activisms raises questions about how intersectionality works in contemporary political struggles and whether there are particular strategies activists use to negotiate the dynamics of solidarity and difference in coalitions. This article contributes to the scholarship on intersectionality and political praxis through a case study of the Respect ABQ Women campaign against a municipal ballot initiative that would have banned abortions after twenty weeks in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I argue that constructing a campaign that shifted the narrative about abortion from pro-choice versus pro-life to one using a reproductive justice frame was key to defeating this ballot measure. Reproductive justice advocates used an innovative strengths-based, cross-sectoral approach that focused on mobilizing those who do not vote or who have reservations about abortion, especially Latino voters, and used storytelling as a methodology for communicating their electoral messages and engaging voters. My analysis is based on twelve interviews with participants in the Respect ABQ Women campaign and a review of campaign materials. The article concludes that the work by reproductive justice activists in the Respect ABQ Women campaign illustrates the praxis of intersectionality by engaging with those outside of traditional feminist politics and articulating the politics of place.

A Latino patient-centered, evidence-based approach to diabetes prevention:

Introduction: Cultural tailoring of evidence-based diabetes prevention program (DPP) interventions is needed to effectively address obesity and its related chronic diseases among Latinos in primary care. This article describes the patient-centered process used to adapt the DPP and reports cultural adaptations. Methods: We used a 2-stage formative research process to culturally adapt an evidence-based DPP intervention in the context of primary care. The first stage involved 5 focus groups of Latino patients and interviews with 5 stakeholders (3 with primary care physicians and 2 with medical directors) to inform a first round of adaptations. The second stage included pretesting the stage I-adapted intervention with a Latino patient advisory board to complete a second round of adaptations. Results: Key stakeholders involved in this 2-stage adaptation process included 34 Latino patients who participated in 5 focus groups and 5 physicians and medical directors who participated in key informant interviews during stage I and 11 patients who attended the 16 advisory board meetings and their family members who attended 1 of the meetings during stage II. Using this patient-centered stakeholder-engaged approach, we found the original intervention was largely congruent with the cultural values of the study population. To further strengthen the cultural relevance of the intervention, salient cultural values emphasized by patients and stakeholders underscored the importance of family and community support for behavior change. Accordingly, key adaptations were made to (1) invite family members to the orientation session and at 2 other key timepoints to facilitate family support, (2) provide participants support from the coach and each other via smartphone applications, and (3) provide healthy, easy, low-cost culturally appropriate meals at each group session. Conclusions: The 2-stage approach actively engaging patients, family members, providers, and health care system leaders reinforced the cultural congruence of the existing intervention while further strengthening it with adaptations promoting Latino family and community support.