Jennifer L Hochschild
Biographic Data
| ID | 123906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer L Hochschild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochschild |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHSCHILD J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 50 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Looking Ahead
This chapter looks at racial and ethnic constructions and practices in the United States over the past century. Migration News is a scholarly publication that “summarizes the most important immigration and integration developments.” It is produced by Migration Dialogue, a group at the University of California, Davis, that aspires to provide “timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues.” An Irish Cath…
Political Inequality, “Real” Public Preferences, Historical Comparisons & Axes of Disadvantage
The essays in this issue of Dædalus raise fascinating and urgent questions about inequality, time, and interdisciplinary research. They lead me to ask further questions about the public's commitment to reducing inequality, the importance of political power in explaining and reducing social and economic inequities, and the possible incommensurability of activists’ and policy-makers’ vantage points or job descriptions
Donald Trump and the Politics of Anxiety and Resentment
Left Pessimism and Political Science
I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore subsidiary questions: What is the evidence of social scientists’ left pessimism? Why is left pessimism not the only plausible stance? Why is left pessimism problematic, and surprising? Why does it nonetheless occur? How can social scientists counter left pessimism?My evidence come…
Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work
When Work Disappears" has shaped research agendas on poverty, racial hierarchy, and urban social and economic dynamics. That is a lot for one article, yet two issues warrant more analysis. They are the ways in which socially defined "race" - rather than or in combination with class - explains the impact of sustained joblessness, and the political behaviours that may emerge in response to work's disappearance. I point to evidence showing that both…
Chasing the American Dream
Mark Rank and his colleagues join a long list of authors (truth in advertising: including myself) who have struggled for decades to elucidate the bittersweet meaning and motivational force of the American Dream. The metaphor’s first definer, James Truslow Adams, lauded it in 1931 as the “dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman . . . unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than…
Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics
WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BORN OUTSIDE the United States, so that his presidency and all laws passed under it are unconstitutional? Are two out of every five Americans black? Did the crime rate rise during the first 15 years of the twenty-first century? These are questions of factual information, to which there are correct answers—respectively, no, no, and no. Knowing the right answer to each question is important for making appropriate political …
To Test or Not? Singular or Multiple Heritage
DNA ancestry testing may seem frivolous, but it points to two crucial questions: First, what is the relationship, if any, between biology and race? Second, how much and why do people prefer clear, singular racial identities over blurred, mixed racial self-understandings, or the reverse? We posit that individuals of different racial or ethnic backgrounds will have different levels of support for this new technology. In particular, despite the hist…
Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
The number of publications arguing that the United States is not post-racial despite twice electing Barack Obama to the presidency is many orders of magnitude greater than the number of publications claiming that the United States is post-racial. In fact, it is difficult to find anyone asserting post-raciality beyond one New York Times Magazine article and a few Fox News commentators around the 2008 election. Nevertheless, attacks on the purporte…
Creating a New Racial Order
The American racial order--the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities--is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected. Through revealing narrative and striking research, the authors show that the personal…
Should the Mass Public Follow Elite Opinion? It Depends
John Zaller's finding that members of the public usually follow elites' cues may seem normatively disturbing. If true, it might be taken to obviate the need for democracy or to show that elites are manipulating the public. However, as long as the public sometimes fails to follow elites, we can judge cases of public followership according to independent criteria, such as whether the public's occasional rebellions against elite opinion further libe…
Democracy Remixed
Shades of Difference
Book Review| July 01 2011 Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters. Edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. ix + 299 pp. Graphs, photos, tables, illustrations, notes, and index. $70 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic Hist…
Destabilizing the American Racial Order
Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; rather than trying to adjudicate among them, this essay seeks to identify what is changing in the American racial order, what persists or is becoming even more entrenched, and what is likely to affect the balance between change and…
Including Oneself and Including Others
To be a full member of a country, must one have citizenship, the same ethnic or racial background, or the same religion as most citizens? What do people of different statuses believe about the criteria for inclusion? To answer these questions, the authors analyze the 2003 International Social Survey Programme survey on national identity, focusing on ten wealthy, democratic countries. They find a series of mismatches. A strong sense of being inclu…
Imagining America in 2033
Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice
The Averaged American
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930
Between 1850 and 1930, demographic upheaval in the United States was connected to reorganization of the racial order. Socially and politically recognized boundaries between groups shifted, new groups emerged, others disappeared, and notions of who belonged in which category changed. All recognized racial groups-blacks, whites, Indians, Asians, Mexicans and others-were affected. This article investigates how and why census racial classification po…
Report of the Editor of Perspectives on Politics , 2004–2005
As of December 2005, Perspectives on Politics will have published three complete volumes of four issues each. As former editor of the journal (until June, 2005), I have published two previous reports (see PS , January 2004, 143–149; PS , January 2005, 141–144) this one covers the period from August 1, 2004 through July 31, 2005
Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter
Report of the Editor of Perspectives on Politics , 2003–2004
Perspectives on Politics opened for business on June 1, 2002, and has published two complete volumes of four issues each. My first full report as editor covered submissions and, where possible, their disposition from June 1, 2002, through July 31, 2003. This report covers the succeeding year, ending on July 31, 2004
Looking ahead
Daedalus Winter 2005 In April of 2004, the quarterly newsletter Migration News summarized the most recent data on race and ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau: “In 2000, the racial/ethnic makeup of US residents was: White, 69 percent; Hispanic and Black, 13 percent each; and Asian and other, six percent. By 2050, these percentages are projected to be: 50, 24, 15, and 13.”1For anyone who has been studying racial trends in America these 1⁄2gures …
Apsa Presidents Reflect on Political Science
Several months ago, the editors of Perspectives on Politics invited the 12 most recent presidents of the APSA, the current president, and the president-elect to answer the following questions: What one or two things has the discipline of political science taught us of really lasting political import over roughly the past two decades? What do we now know that we didn't know before, say, 1980 that really matters, whether for scholarship, political …
Introduction and Comments
Running through most, though not all, of the articles in this issue of Perspectives on Politics is the theme of competing interpretations of the same event or activity—a subject all too familiar to those of us with partners, children, or political convictions. Some articles directly address alternative readings; in other cases, competing interpretations appear across articles or between author and commentator(s). There are also surprising substan…
What's fair?
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930
Between 1850 and 1930, demographic upheaval in the United States was connected to reorganization of the racial order. Socially and politically recognized boundaries between groups shifted, new groups emerged, others disappeared, and notions of who belonged in which category changed. All recognized racial groups-blacks, whites, Indians, Asians, Mexicans and others-were affected. This article investigates how and why census racial classification po…
Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics
WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA BORN OUTSIDE the United States, so that his presidency and all laws passed under it are unconstitutional? Are two out of every five Americans black? Did the crime rate rise during the first 15 years of the twenty-first century? These are questions of factual information, to which there are correct answers—respectively, no, no, and no. Knowing the right answer to each question is important for making appropriate political …
Introduction and Observations
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Perspectives on Politics, the new journal sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for all political scientists and others interested in academic analyses of politics. The associate editors and I are thrilled, and a bit daunted, by the challenges of putting together a journal that reaches across and outside our discipline and seeks to draw all of its members, and others, into a conversation …
Social Class in Public Schools
This article shows the pattern of socioeconomic class differences in schooling outcomes and indicates some of the causes for those differences that lie within the public realm. Those causes include “nested inequalities” across boundaries of states, school districts, schools within a district, classes within a school, and sometimes separation within a class. In addition, urban public schools demonstrate a particular set of problems that generate d…
Looking ahead
Daedalus Winter 2005 In April of 2004, the quarterly newsletter Migration News summarized the most recent data on race and ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau: “In 2000, the racial/ethnic makeup of US residents was: White, 69 percent; Hispanic and Black, 13 percent each; and Asian and other, six percent. By 2050, these percentages are projected to be: 50, 24, 15, and 13.”1For anyone who has been studying racial trends in America these 1⁄2gures …
Why the Dog Doesn't Bark
The absence of a strong leftist movement among America's poor has often been the subject of speculation by political scientists. In the essay below Jennifer Hochschild seeks to explain why poor Americans have failed to demand a redistribution of wealth, contrary to expectations based on classical and liberal political theory, psychological theories, empirical observation, and current politics. For purposes of her survey the author has divided low…
Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
The number of publications arguing that the United States is not post-racial despite twice electing Barack Obama to the presidency is many orders of magnitude greater than the number of publications claiming that the United States is post-racial. In fact, it is difficult to find anyone asserting post-raciality beyond one New York Times Magazine article and a few Fox News commentators around the 2008 election. Nevertheless, attacks on the purporte…
Destabilizing the American Racial Order
Are racial disparities in the United States just as deep-rooted as they were before the 2008 presidential election, largely eliminated, or persistent but on the decline? One can easily find all of these pronouncements; rather than trying to adjudicate among them, this essay seeks to identify what is changing in the American racial order, what persists or is becoming even more entrenched, and what is likely to affect the balance between change and…
The Dual Agenda
Journal Article The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Weif are Policies of Civil Rights Organizations. By Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-231-10364-6) Get access Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice
Including Oneself and Including Others
To be a full member of a country, must one have citizenship, the same ethnic or racial background, or the same religion as most citizens? What do people of different statuses believe about the criteria for inclusion? To answer these questions, the authors analyze the 2003 International Social Survey Programme survey on national identity, focusing on ten wealthy, democratic countries. They find a series of mismatches. A strong sense of being inclu…
Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter
To Test or Not? Singular or Multiple Heritage
DNA ancestry testing may seem frivolous, but it points to two crucial questions: First, what is the relationship, if any, between biology and race? Second, how much and why do people prefer clear, singular racial identities over blurred, mixed racial self-understandings, or the reverse? We posit that individuals of different racial or ethnic backgrounds will have different levels of support for this new technology. In particular, despite the hist…
Should the Mass Public Follow Elite Opinion? It Depends
John Zaller's finding that members of the public usually follow elites' cues may seem normatively disturbing. If true, it might be taken to obviate the need for democracy or to show that elites are manipulating the public. However, as long as the public sometimes fails to follow elites, we can judge cases of public followership according to independent criteria, such as whether the public's occasional rebellions against elite opinion further libe…
Apsa Presidents Reflect on Political Science
Several months ago, the editors of Perspectives on Politics invited the 12 most recent presidents of the APSA, the current president, and the president-elect to answer the following questions: What one or two things has the discipline of political science taught us of really lasting political import over roughly the past two decades? What do we now know that we didn't know before, say, 1980 that really matters, whether for scholarship, political …
Introduction and Comments
Running through most, though not all, of the articles in this issue of Perspectives on Politics is the theme of competing interpretations of the same event or activity—a subject all too familiar to those of us with partners, children, or political convictions. Some articles directly address alternative readings; in other cases, competing interpretations appear across articles or between author and commentator(s). There are also surprising substan…
The New American Dilemma
Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor
This article is concerned with people who so lack marketable skills and material resources that they are excluded from mainstream society, and who lack faith that they can succeed through conventional means. They are usually poor, but they are a small subset of the poor and are not necessarily poor throughout their lives. Most are excluded because the American rhetoric of equal opportunity for all is belied by political choices that deny to some …
Left Pessimism and Political Science
I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore subsidiary questions: What is the evidence of social scientists’ left pessimism? Why is left pessimism not the only plausible stance? Why is left pessimism problematic, and surprising? Why does it nonetheless occur? How can social scientists counter left pessimism?My evidence come…
Political Inequality, “Real” Public Preferences, Historical Comparisons & Axes of Disadvantage
The essays in this issue of Dædalus raise fascinating and urgent questions about inequality, time, and interdisciplinary research. They lead me to ask further questions about the public's commitment to reducing inequality, the importance of political power in explaining and reducing social and economic inequities, and the possible incommensurability of activists’ and policy-makers’ vantage points or job descriptions
Donald Trump and the Politics of Anxiety and Resentment
Chasing the American Dream
Mark Rank and his colleagues join a long list of authors (truth in advertising: including myself) who have struggled for decades to elucidate the bittersweet meaning and motivational force of the American Dream. The metaphor’s first definer, James Truslow Adams, lauded it in 1931 as the “dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman . . . unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than…
Three Puzzles in Search of an Answer from Political Scientists (with Apologies to Pirandello)
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Civic Ideals
Journal Article Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History Get access Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers Smith. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997. 719 pp. $35.00. Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 321–322, ht…
Why the Dog Doesn't Bark
The absence of a strong leftist movement among America's poor has often been the subject of speculation by political scientists. In the essay below Jennifer Hochschild seeks to explain why poor Americans have failed to demand a redistribution of wealth, contrary to expectations based on classical and liberal political theory, psychological theories, empirical observation, and current politics. For purposes of her survey the author has divided low…
What's fair?
The New American Dilemma
The New American Dilemma
The New American Dilemma
Readings on Equal Education, Volume 8
Equal Education Under Law
Ain't No Makin' It
Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor
This article is concerned with people who so lack marketable skills and material resources that they are excluded from mainstream society, and who lack faith that they can succeed through conventional means. They are usually poor, but they are a small subset of the poor and are not necessarily poor throughout their lives. Most are excluded because the American rhetoric of equal opportunity for all is belied by political choices that deny to some …
The Politics of the Estranged Poor
Facing Up to the American Dream
Facing Up to the American Dream Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
Social Policy in the United States
Achieving Racial Balance
Practical Politics and Voice and Equality
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The Dual Agenda
Journal Article The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Weif are Policies of Civil Rights Organizations. By Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 335 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-231-10364-6) Get access Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Civic Ideals
Journal Article Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History Get access Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers Smith. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997. 719 pp. $35.00. Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 321–322, ht…
Solidarity, Coalitions, or Division
Pluralism and the Politics of Difference
Journal Article Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective Get access Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective by Ralph Grillo. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. 272 pp. $35.00. Jennifer L. Hochschild Jennifer L. Hochschild Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political S…
American Dream and Public Schools
Why is education policy so contentious? Do conflicts over specific issues in schooling have anything in common? Are there general principles that can help us resolve these disputes? In this book the authors find the source of many debates over schooling in the multiple goals and internal contradictions of the national ideology we call the American dream. They also propose a framework for helping Americans get past acrimonious debates in order to …
Justice at War
The status of civil rights in the United States today is as volatile an issue as ever, with many Americans wondering if new laws, implemented after the events of September 11, restrict more people than they protect. How will efforts to eradicate racism, sexism, and xenophobia be affected by the measures our government takes in the name of protecting its citizens? Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, a…
Social Class in Public Schools
This article shows the pattern of socioeconomic class differences in schooling outcomes and indicates some of the causes for those differences that lie within the public realm. Those causes include “nested inequalities” across boundaries of states, school districts, schools within a district, classes within a school, and sometimes separation within a class. In addition, urban public schools demonstrate a particular set of problems that generate d…
Introduction and Observations
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Perspectives on Politics, the new journal sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for all political scientists and others interested in academic analyses of politics. The associate editors and I are thrilled, and a bit daunted, by the challenges of putting together a journal that reaches across and outside our discipline and seeks to draw all of its members, and others, into a conversation …
Introduction and Comments
Running through most, though not all, of the articles in this issue of Perspectives on Politics is the theme of competing interpretations of the same event or activity—a subject all too familiar to those of us with partners, children, or political convictions. Some articles directly address alternative readings; in other cases, competing interpretations appear across articles or between author and commentator(s). There are also surprising substan…
Report of the Editor of Perspectives on Politics, 2002–2003
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