Sarah Leiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 101193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Leiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Leiter |
| SIGNATURE | LEITER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7154-3403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans
Amidst a contemporary global political climate in which "Arab" and "Jew" are so often assumed to be antonyms, how do some people identify as both simultaneously?And when their identification practices encompass yet more socially perceived contradictions, like being both "Jewish" and "Mexican," how do they assert the validity of claiming all of these identities together and at once?How do these identification practices occur through and become app…
Addressing Criminal Legal System Health Inequities Through Redirection
The criminal legal system and youth delinquent systems (CL/DS) are increasingly recognized as a primary sources of racial/ethnic inequity (REI) in health. Research funding institutions are beginning to focus on the CL/DS as a social determinant of health, some CL/DS officials are centering equity as a core concern, and some problematic CL/DS practices are being rolled back. However, the impact of such efforts may be limited because they typically…
Spanish by Another Name? Racializing Sephardic Identity in Contemporary New Mexico
Racialization, the process of creating and populating racial categories, most often is a divisive and disparaging practice that artificially bounds and hierarchizes groups of people. But can racialization also be a socially productive practice? This article explores this question in the context of contemporary New Mexico, where some Hispanic residents recently discovered their Sephardic, or Iberian Jewish, ancestry and, as a result, are beginning…
“I Was the Only Goyim There”
This article explores linguistic imitation as a strategy of socialization. It focuses on the ethnographic context of New Mexico’s Jewish community, which some Hispanic New Mexicans are beginning to join after discovering their Sephardic, or Iberian Jewish, ancestry. Although several are choosing to formally ‘return,’ or convert, to Judaism, they often feel unwelcome in the community and, therefore, do not always have interlocutors who might help …
Brazilian but Jewish
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Brazilian but Jewish
“I Was the Only Goyim There”
This article explores linguistic imitation as a strategy of socialization. It focuses on the ethnographic context of New Mexico’s Jewish community, which some Hispanic New Mexicans are beginning to join after discovering their Sephardic, or Iberian Jewish, ancestry. Although several are choosing to formally ‘return,’ or convert, to Judaism, they often feel unwelcome in the community and, therefore, do not always have interlocutors who might help …
Spanish by Another Name? Racializing Sephardic Identity in Contemporary New Mexico
Racialization, the process of creating and populating racial categories, most often is a divisive and disparaging practice that artificially bounds and hierarchizes groups of people. But can racialization also be a socially productive practice? This article explores this question in the context of contemporary New Mexico, where some Hispanic residents recently discovered their Sephardic, or Iberian Jewish, ancestry and, as a result, are beginning…
Addressing Criminal Legal System Health Inequities Through Redirection
The criminal legal system and youth delinquent systems (CL/DS) are increasingly recognized as a primary sources of racial/ethnic inequity (REI) in health. Research funding institutions are beginning to focus on the CL/DS as a social determinant of health, some CL/DS officials are centering equity as a core concern, and some problematic CL/DS practices are being rolled back. However, the impact of such efforts may be limited because they typically…
Coming of Age as Syrian Jewish Mexicans
Amidst a contemporary global political climate in which "Arab" and "Jew" are so often assumed to be antonyms, how do some people identify as both simultaneously?And when their identification practices encompass yet more socially perceived contradictions, like being both "Jewish" and "Mexican," how do they assert the validity of claiming all of these identities together and at once?How do these identification practices occur through and become app…
Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Hispanic-African Historical Relations (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)