Abby L Ferber
Biographic Data
| ID | 116830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abby L Ferber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abby L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferber |
| SIGNATURE | FERBER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Colorado Springs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Privilege: A Reader
"Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male?as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a range of contributors make clear in this timely anthology. In an era when?diversity? is too often shorthand for?of color? and/or?female,? the personal and analytical essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and religion interact to create nuan…
Are You Willing to Die for This Work?' Public Targeted Online Harassment in Higher Education: SWS Presidential Address
This address examines a growing problem in academia: the public targeted online harassment of faculty. This harassment, organized and carried out by the alt-right and supported by other sectors of the right wing across the spectrum from mainstream to extreme, are intended to silence faculty and censor the curriculum. I examine a range of contextual factors that have facilitated this phenomenon, and discuss the experiences of seven other people, a…
Faculty Under Attack
Privilege: A Reader
Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male-as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a range of contributors make clear in this timely anthology. In an era when "diversity" is too often shorthand for "of color" and/or "female, " the personal and analytical essays in this collection explore the multifaceted nature of social location and consider how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and religion interact to create n…
Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice
The Culture of Privilege: Color‐blindness, Postfeminism, and Christonormativity
This article argues that the ideology of color‐blind racism is part of a broader, overarching ideology of “oppression blindness.” Using an intersectional framework for understanding white privilege, color‐blind racism is seen not as a distinct ideology, but one which overlaps with and reinforces other systems of inequality. This article specifically examines the interconnections and similarities among color‐blindness, postfeminism, and christonor…
Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood
The Gendered Face of Terrorism
What does sociology have to contribute to our understanding of terrorism? As scholars of gender and the Far Right, we believe that we have much to offer the current debates. In this article, we focus both on contemporary cases of terrorism, the attacks of September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, and terrorist movements as gendered: as enactments of masculinity. In particular, we focus on the contemporary white supremacist movement, the most da…
Whiteness Studies and the Erasure of Gender
In recent years, the study of race and ethnicity has expanded, and there is now a growing field of research that examines whiteness and racial privilege. This article provides an overview of theories of privilege and whiteness studies, and argues that these analyses should incorporate an intersectional approach. Intersectional theories argue that race and gender are intertwined, and neither can be fully comprehended on its own. An intersectional …
The Matrix of Oppression and Privilege: Theory and Practice for the New Millennium
This article discusses a creative, collaborative model the authors have developed between the Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies programs on their campus that provides a paradigm that other universities around the country might learn from. After situating the program within a historical and national context, this article examines the specific challenges faced within the university setting and offers a range of institutional strategies that have p…
The Construction of Black Masculinity: White Supremacy Now and Then
How can a White supremacist nation, which subjects Black men to ongoing racism and demonization, at the same time admire and worship Black men as athletes? The author argues that key elements of White supremacy and the new racism are reinforced by popular representations of Black male athletes. In viewing far-Right White supremacist and sports cultures, two sites representing seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum of contemporary racism, the aut…
Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the "Color Blind" Era
The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and in the process changing the cultural fabric of the nation. Exploring this new reality, the authors of Mixed Messages examine what we know about multiracial identities—and the implications of those identities for fundamental issues of justice and equality.
White Men on Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness
Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism
Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out
Students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The book is a user-friendly guide. The first section focuses on the voices of students of color and draws on the power of personal narratives to reveal alternate perspectives that illuminat…
Mongrel Monstrosities
A Commentary on Aguirre: Taking Narrative Seriously
I explore the incorporation of the narrative approach in sociology, the role of sociologist as narrator, and why this approach is unsettling to traditional sociology, where tension exists between the postmodern implications of a narrative approach and our empiricist assumptions. A narrative approach represents an epistemological shift and should force us to interrogate the crucial role played by narrative in the construction of reality. Affirmati…
Reading Right: The Western Tradition in White Supremacist Discourse
Our paper explores the white supremacist movement's reliance upon the western genre to construct white masculinity. We argue that white supremacist discourse rearticulates both the narrative form and content of the classic western. We first examine the formal and substantive themes of the classic western, and then analyze the publications of a wide variety of contemporary white supremacist organizations, including Klan, neo-Nazi, and Christian Id…
Racial Warriors and Weekend Warriors: The Construction of Masculinity in Mythopoetic and White Supremacist Discourse
This article explores contemporary white male backlash by comparing the discourses of two movements usually assumed to have little in common: the mythopoetic men's movement and the contemporary white supremacist movement. While there are clear differences, the author argues that they are similar in important ways, and with consequences. These two discourses reinforce broader reactionary discourses about gender and share a number of common assumpt…
White Men Are This Nation: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity
The appearance of right-wing militias was a much-discussed phenomenon during the past decade. Commentators rightly pointed out their rural origins, their lower-middle-class and middle-class composition, and their ideology rooted in racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia, but few, if any, have commented on the most salient aspect of all: that these are movements of men, who use narratives about masculinity as an analytic prism through which…
White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy
Ferber's provocative critique examines white supremacists' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their attempts to assert white male power
Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
Preface. Introduction. Staying Tuned. Hearts and Minds. The Long March. All Things to All People. Family Matters. As If It Were Murder. The Antigay Agenda. BY the Book. The End Is Near. Coming to Terms. Conclusion
Race Pride and the American Identity
At the close of the 20th century, American society is more diverse and tolerant than ever, yet haunted by the threat of ethnic fragmentation. This book describes the rise of multiculturalism in America, identifying the political forces which in the last 30 years have created a country that is both pluralistic and factionalized. In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, minority activists challenged universities, museums, and other institutions to…
White man falling: Race, gender, and White supremacy
Constructing whiteness: The intersections of race and gender in US white supremacist discourse
This research explores the intertwined construction of race and gender in a wide variety of white supremacist newsletters and periodicals published between 1969 and 1993. While traditional accounts of the white supremacist movement treat it as a movement concerned with race relations, I read this discourse as a site of the construction of race. Additionally, I argue that race and gender are inextricably linked. Exploring how meaning works in whit…
The Construction of Black Masculinity: White Supremacy Now and Then
How can a White supremacist nation, which subjects Black men to ongoing racism and demonization, at the same time admire and worship Black men as athletes? The author argues that key elements of White supremacy and the new racism are reinforced by popular representations of Black male athletes. In viewing far-Right White supremacist and sports cultures, two sites representing seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum of contemporary racism, the aut…
White Men Are This Nation: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity
The appearance of right-wing militias was a much-discussed phenomenon during the past decade. Commentators rightly pointed out their rural origins, their lower-middle-class and middle-class composition, and their ideology rooted in racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia, but few, if any, have commented on the most salient aspect of all: that these are movements of men, who use narratives about masculinity as an analytic prism through which…
Constructing whiteness: The intersections of race and gender in US white supremacist discourse
This research explores the intertwined construction of race and gender in a wide variety of white supremacist newsletters and periodicals published between 1969 and 1993. While traditional accounts of the white supremacist movement treat it as a movement concerned with race relations, I read this discourse as a site of the construction of race. Additionally, I argue that race and gender are inextricably linked. Exploring how meaning works in whit…
The Culture of Privilege: Color‐blindness, Postfeminism, and Christonormativity
This article argues that the ideology of color‐blind racism is part of a broader, overarching ideology of “oppression blindness.” Using an intersectional framework for understanding white privilege, color‐blind racism is seen not as a distinct ideology, but one which overlaps with and reinforces other systems of inequality. This article specifically examines the interconnections and similarities among color‐blindness, postfeminism, and christonor…
White Men on Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness
Racial Warriors and Weekend Warriors: The Construction of Masculinity in Mythopoetic and White Supremacist Discourse
This article explores contemporary white male backlash by comparing the discourses of two movements usually assumed to have little in common: the mythopoetic men's movement and the contemporary white supremacist movement. While there are clear differences, the author argues that they are similar in important ways, and with consequences. These two discourses reinforce broader reactionary discourses about gender and share a number of common assumpt…
Whiteness Studies and the Erasure of Gender
In recent years, the study of race and ethnicity has expanded, and there is now a growing field of research that examines whiteness and racial privilege. This article provides an overview of theories of privilege and whiteness studies, and argues that these analyses should incorporate an intersectional approach. Intersectional theories argue that race and gender are intertwined, and neither can be fully comprehended on its own. An intersectional …
Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood
The Gendered Face of Terrorism
What does sociology have to contribute to our understanding of terrorism? As scholars of gender and the Far Right, we believe that we have much to offer the current debates. In this article, we focus both on contemporary cases of terrorism, the attacks of September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, and terrorist movements as gendered: as enactments of masculinity. In particular, we focus on the contemporary white supremacist movement, the most da…
Reading Right: The Western Tradition in White Supremacist Discourse
Our paper explores the white supremacist movement's reliance upon the western genre to construct white masculinity. We argue that white supremacist discourse rearticulates both the narrative form and content of the classic western. We first examine the formal and substantive themes of the classic western, and then analyze the publications of a wide variety of contemporary white supremacist organizations, including Klan, neo-Nazi, and Christian Id…
Are You Willing to Die for This Work?' Public Targeted Online Harassment in Higher Education: SWS Presidential Address
This address examines a growing problem in academia: the public targeted online harassment of faculty. This harassment, organized and carried out by the alt-right and supported by other sectors of the right wing across the spectrum from mainstream to extreme, are intended to silence faculty and censor the curriculum. I examine a range of contextual factors that have facilitated this phenomenon, and discuss the experiences of seven other people, a…
The Matrix of Oppression and Privilege: Theory and Practice for the New Millennium
This article discusses a creative, collaborative model the authors have developed between the Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies programs on their campus that provides a paradigm that other universities around the country might learn from. After situating the program within a historical and national context, this article examines the specific challenges faced within the university setting and offers a range of institutional strategies that have p…
Of Mongrels and Jews: The Deconstruction of Racialised Identities in White Supremacist Discourse
This research explores the construction of race and mixed race identities in a wide variety of white supremacist newsletters and periodicals published between 1969 and 1993. While traditional accounts of the white supremacist movement treat it as a movement concerned with race relations, I read this discourse as a site of the construction of race. In white supremacist discourse, interracial sexuality is defined as the ultimate abomination, and mi…
Faculty Under Attack
"Congratulations! You Have Just Been Appointed Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court!" Thinking Critically about Equality and Affirmative Action
Debbie Storrs, Abby Ferber, "Congratulations! You Have Just Been Appointed Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court!" Thinking Critically about Equality and Affirmative Action, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 4, Gifts: 20 Great Ideas for Teaching Sociology (Oct., 1992), pp. 340-343
A Commentary on Aguirre: Taking Narrative Seriously
I explore the incorporation of the narrative approach in sociology, the role of sociologist as narrator, and why this approach is unsettling to traditional sociology, where tension exists between the postmodern implications of a narrative approach and our empiricist assumptions. A narrative approach represents an epistemological shift and should force us to interrogate the crucial role played by narrative in the construction of reality. Affirmati…
"Congratulations! You Have Just Been Appointed Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court!" Thinking Critically about Equality and Affirmative Action
Debbie Storrs, Abby Ferber, "Congratulations! You Have Just Been Appointed Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court!" Thinking Critically about Equality and Affirmative Action, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 4, Gifts: 20 Great Ideas for Teaching Sociology (Oct., 1992), pp. 340-343
Race,' Gender and the Education of Teachers
Part 1 Setting the scene: reproduction or reconstruction? gender and teacher education racial equality and effective teacher education equal opportunities - teacher education and Europe. Part 2 Black and female student experience: issues and concerns for black women teachers in training one of the boys? - gender identities in physical education initial teacher education the heart of the matter - student teachers' experiences in school. Part 3 Pol…
Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States
This work traces the development of four types of right-wing movement over the last four years - the anticommunist conservative movement, the racist right, the Christian right, and the neoconservatives
Of Mongrels and Jews: The Deconstruction of Racialised Identities in White Supremacist Discourse
This research explores the construction of race and mixed race identities in a wide variety of white supremacist newsletters and periodicals published between 1969 and 1993. While traditional accounts of the white supremacist movement treat it as a movement concerned with race relations, I read this discourse as a site of the construction of race. In white supremacist discourse, interracial sexuality is defined as the ultimate abomination, and mi…
White man falling: Race, gender, and White supremacy
Constructing whiteness: The intersections of race and gender in US white supremacist discourse
This research explores the intertwined construction of race and gender in a wide variety of white supremacist newsletters and periodicals published between 1969 and 1993. While traditional accounts of the white supremacist movement treat it as a movement concerned with race relations, I read this discourse as a site of the construction of race. Additionally, I argue that race and gender are inextricably linked. Exploring how meaning works in whit…
White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy
Ferber's provocative critique examines white supremacists' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their attempts to assert white male power
Not by Politics Alone: The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
Preface. Introduction. Staying Tuned. Hearts and Minds. The Long March. All Things to All People. Family Matters. As If It Were Murder. The Antigay Agenda. BY the Book. The End Is Near. Coming to Terms. Conclusion
Race Pride and the American Identity
At the close of the 20th century, American society is more diverse and tolerant than ever, yet haunted by the threat of ethnic fragmentation. This book describes the rise of multiculturalism in America, identifying the political forces which in the last 30 years have created a country that is both pluralistic and factionalized. In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, minority activists challenged universities, museums, and other institutions to…
Mongrel Monstrosities
A Commentary on Aguirre: Taking Narrative Seriously
I explore the incorporation of the narrative approach in sociology, the role of sociologist as narrator, and why this approach is unsettling to traditional sociology, where tension exists between the postmodern implications of a narrative approach and our empiricist assumptions. A narrative approach represents an epistemological shift and should force us to interrogate the crucial role played by narrative in the construction of reality. Affirmati…
Reading Right: The Western Tradition in White Supremacist Discourse
Our paper explores the white supremacist movement's reliance upon the western genre to construct white masculinity. We argue that white supremacist discourse rearticulates both the narrative form and content of the classic western. We first examine the formal and substantive themes of the classic western, and then analyze the publications of a wide variety of contemporary white supremacist organizations, including Klan, neo-Nazi, and Christian Id…
Racial Warriors and Weekend Warriors: The Construction of Masculinity in Mythopoetic and White Supremacist Discourse
This article explores contemporary white male backlash by comparing the discourses of two movements usually assumed to have little in common: the mythopoetic men's movement and the contemporary white supremacist movement. While there are clear differences, the author argues that they are similar in important ways, and with consequences. These two discourses reinforce broader reactionary discourses about gender and share a number of common assumpt…
White Men Are This Nation: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity
The appearance of right-wing militias was a much-discussed phenomenon during the past decade. Commentators rightly pointed out their rural origins, their lower-middle-class and middle-class composition, and their ideology rooted in racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia, but few, if any, have commented on the most salient aspect of all: that these are movements of men, who use narratives about masculinity as an analytic prism through which…
Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out
Students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The book is a user-friendly guide. The first section focuses on the voices of students of color and draws on the power of personal narratives to reveal alternate perspectives that illuminat…
Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism
White Men on Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness
Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the "Color Blind" Era
The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and in the process changing the cultural fabric of the nation. Exploring this new reality, the authors of Mixed Messages examine what we know about multiracial identities—and the implications of those identities for fundamental issues of justice and equality.
Whiteness Studies and the Erasure of Gender
In recent years, the study of race and ethnicity has expanded, and there is now a growing field of research that examines whiteness and racial privilege. This article provides an overview of theories of privilege and whiteness studies, and argues that these analyses should incorporate an intersectional approach. Intersectional theories argue that race and gender are intertwined, and neither can be fully comprehended on its own. An intersectional …
The Matrix of Oppression and Privilege: Theory and Practice for the New Millennium
This article discusses a creative, collaborative model the authors have developed between the Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies programs on their campus that provides a paradigm that other universities around the country might learn from. After situating the program within a historical and national context, this article examines the specific challenges faced within the university setting and offers a range of institutional strategies that have p…
The Construction of Black Masculinity: White Supremacy Now and Then
How can a White supremacist nation, which subjects Black men to ongoing racism and demonization, at the same time admire and worship Black men as athletes? The author argues that key elements of White supremacy and the new racism are reinforced by popular representations of Black male athletes. In viewing far-Right White supremacist and sports cultures, two sites representing seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum of contemporary racism, the aut…
The Gendered Face of Terrorism
What does sociology have to contribute to our understanding of terrorism? As scholars of gender and the Far Right, we believe that we have much to offer the current debates. In this article, we focus both on contemporary cases of terrorism, the attacks of September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing, and terrorist movements as gendered: as enactments of masculinity. In particular, we focus on the contemporary white supremacist movement, the most da…
Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood
The Culture of Privilege: Color‐blindness, Postfeminism, and Christonormativity
This article argues that the ideology of color‐blind racism is part of a broader, overarching ideology of “oppression blindness.” Using an intersectional framework for understanding white privilege, color‐blind racism is seen not as a distinct ideology, but one which overlaps with and reinforces other systems of inequality. This article specifically examines the interconnections and similarities among color‐blindness, postfeminism, and christonor…
Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice
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