Patricia A Banks
Biographic Data
| ID | 134976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia A Banks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Banks |
| SIGNATURE | BANKS P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8275-361X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Black boundaries: Book Review of The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth , by Derron Wallace, Reviewed by Patricia A. Banks
Consumption in the Black community: Major themes and new developments
No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools
While the educational exclusion of students who wear hairstyles linked to people of African descent has garnered significant media attention, there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Drawing on content analysis of dress codes in Texas public schools, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by conceptually and empirically elaborating how students who wear dreadlocks are stigmatized in schools. Engaging sociological th…
Black Culture, Inc: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America
A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America. Open the brochure for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and you'll see logos for corporations like American Express. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, owe their very existence to large corporate donations from companies like General Motors. And while we can easily make sense of t…
Branding Indigeneity: Corporate Patronage of the Arts
Although corporate giving is an important source of support for initiatives related to indigenous cultures, it is less clear how companies gain advantages from patronage. This paper develops the concept of branding indigeneity to describe how companies benefit from philanthropy and sponsorships related to indigenous cultures. More specifically, I argue that corporate patronage related to indigenous cultures is a practice through which companies s…
Wingfield, A. H. (2019). Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View
Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View looks at the central concerns of consumer culture through the lens of race and ethnicity. Each chapter illustrates the connections between race, ethnicity, and consumption by focusing on a specific theme: identity, crossing cultures, marketing and advertising, neighborhoods, discrimination, and social activism. By exploring issues such as multicultural marketing, cultural appropriation, consum…
High culture, black culture: Strategic assimilation and cultural steering in museum philanthropy
This article provides a case study of race and big-gift cultural patronage, a theoretically and empirically understudied phenomenon, by investigating million-dollar donations to the Smithsonian Institution by black patrons. I find that large donations by black supporters are concentrated at one Smithsonian museum – the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To explain this distinctive pattern of cultural consumption, I draw on e…
Money, museums, and memory: Cultural Patronage by Black Voluntary Associations
While the middle- and upper-class is typically cast as using museum patronage to support narratives that reinforce the position of dominant racial groups, this paper presents an alternative perspective. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data, I conceptually and empirically elaborate how gifts by black middle- and upper-class voluntary organizations to African American museums are enabled by racial uplift ideology and directed at nurturing coun…
The rise of Africa in the contemporary auction market: Myth or reality
Ethnicity, Class and Trusteeship at African-American and Mainstream Museums
While Pierre Bourdieu argues that cultural capital is grounded in distinct aesthetic knowledge and tastes among elites, Francie Ostrower emphasizes that cultural capital grows out of the social organization of elite participation in the arts. This article builds on Ostrower's perspective on cultural capital, as well as Milton Gordon's concept of the ethclass group and Prudence Carter's concept of black cultural capital, to elaborate how culture's…
Mounting frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
After decades of spotty acquisitions, undernourished scholarship and token exhibitions, American museums are rewriting the history of 20th-century art to include black artists in a more visible and
Cultural Socialization in Black Middle-Class Families
While cultural capital is broadly documented as an important mechanism of class reproduction, there is less understanding of cultural capital within black middle-class families. This paper addresses this gap in knowledge by exploring how black middle-class parents approach their children's socialization in the fine arts. Drawing on in-depth interviews with black middle-class parents, I develop a conceptual framework outlining how such parents ado…
Conceptions of Art Ownership as a Form of Wealth Accumulation Among the Black Middle-Class
Black cultural advancement: Racial Identity and Participation in the Arts Among the Black Middle Class
While there are well developed theoretical elaborations of the role of consumption in establishing and solidifying the class boundaries of elites, there is less understanding of the ways that elites draw on cultural participation to assert racial and ethnic membership. I address this gap and explore how middle-class blacks experience art patronage as a collective project of black cultural advancement. Drawing on in-depth interviews with middle-cl…
Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visu…
Black cultural advancement: Racial Identity and Participation in the Arts Among the Black Middle Class
While there are well developed theoretical elaborations of the role of consumption in establishing and solidifying the class boundaries of elites, there is less understanding of the ways that elites draw on cultural participation to assert racial and ethnic membership. I address this gap and explore how middle-class blacks experience art patronage as a collective project of black cultural advancement. Drawing on in-depth interviews with middle-cl…
Cultural Socialization in Black Middle-Class Families
While cultural capital is broadly documented as an important mechanism of class reproduction, there is less understanding of cultural capital within black middle-class families. This paper addresses this gap in knowledge by exploring how black middle-class parents approach their children's socialization in the fine arts. Drawing on in-depth interviews with black middle-class parents, I develop a conceptual framework outlining how such parents ado…
Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visu…
Ethnicity, Class and Trusteeship at African-American and Mainstream Museums
While Pierre Bourdieu argues that cultural capital is grounded in distinct aesthetic knowledge and tastes among elites, Francie Ostrower emphasizes that cultural capital grows out of the social organization of elite participation in the arts. This article builds on Ostrower's perspective on cultural capital, as well as Milton Gordon's concept of the ethclass group and Prudence Carter's concept of black cultural capital, to elaborate how culture's…
Money, museums, and memory: Cultural Patronage by Black Voluntary Associations
While the middle- and upper-class is typically cast as using museum patronage to support narratives that reinforce the position of dominant racial groups, this paper presents an alternative perspective. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data, I conceptually and empirically elaborate how gifts by black middle- and upper-class voluntary organizations to African American museums are enabled by racial uplift ideology and directed at nurturing coun…
Conceptions of Art Ownership as a Form of Wealth Accumulation Among the Black Middle-Class
High culture, black culture: Strategic assimilation and cultural steering in museum philanthropy
This article provides a case study of race and big-gift cultural patronage, a theoretically and empirically understudied phenomenon, by investigating million-dollar donations to the Smithsonian Institution by black patrons. I find that large donations by black supporters are concentrated at one Smithsonian museum – the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To explain this distinctive pattern of cultural consumption, I draw on e…
No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools
While the educational exclusion of students who wear hairstyles linked to people of African descent has garnered significant media attention, there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Drawing on content analysis of dress codes in Texas public schools, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by conceptually and empirically elaborating how students who wear dreadlocks are stigmatized in schools. Engaging sociological th…
The rise of Africa in the contemporary auction market: Myth or reality
Mounting frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
After decades of spotty acquisitions, undernourished scholarship and token exhibitions, American museums are rewriting the history of 20th-century art to include black artists in a more visible and
Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visu…
Conceptions of Art Ownership as a Form of Wealth Accumulation Among the Black Middle-Class
Black cultural advancement: Racial Identity and Participation in the Arts Among the Black Middle Class
While there are well developed theoretical elaborations of the role of consumption in establishing and solidifying the class boundaries of elites, there is less understanding of the ways that elites draw on cultural participation to assert racial and ethnic membership. I address this gap and explore how middle-class blacks experience art patronage as a collective project of black cultural advancement. Drawing on in-depth interviews with middle-cl…
Cultural Socialization in Black Middle-Class Families
While cultural capital is broadly documented as an important mechanism of class reproduction, there is less understanding of cultural capital within black middle-class families. This paper addresses this gap in knowledge by exploring how black middle-class parents approach their children's socialization in the fine arts. Drawing on in-depth interviews with black middle-class parents, I develop a conceptual framework outlining how such parents ado…
Ethnicity, Class and Trusteeship at African-American and Mainstream Museums
While Pierre Bourdieu argues that cultural capital is grounded in distinct aesthetic knowledge and tastes among elites, Francie Ostrower emphasizes that cultural capital grows out of the social organization of elite participation in the arts. This article builds on Ostrower's perspective on cultural capital, as well as Milton Gordon's concept of the ethclass group and Prudence Carter's concept of black cultural capital, to elaborate how culture's…
Mounting frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
After decades of spotty acquisitions, undernourished scholarship and token exhibitions, American museums are rewriting the history of 20th-century art to include black artists in a more visible and
The rise of Africa in the contemporary auction market: Myth or reality
High culture, black culture: Strategic assimilation and cultural steering in museum philanthropy
This article provides a case study of race and big-gift cultural patronage, a theoretically and empirically understudied phenomenon, by investigating million-dollar donations to the Smithsonian Institution by black patrons. I find that large donations by black supporters are concentrated at one Smithsonian museum – the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To explain this distinctive pattern of cultural consumption, I draw on e…
Money, museums, and memory: Cultural Patronage by Black Voluntary Associations
While the middle- and upper-class is typically cast as using museum patronage to support narratives that reinforce the position of dominant racial groups, this paper presents an alternative perspective. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data, I conceptually and empirically elaborate how gifts by black middle- and upper-class voluntary organizations to African American museums are enabled by racial uplift ideology and directed at nurturing coun…
Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View
Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View looks at the central concerns of consumer culture through the lens of race and ethnicity. Each chapter illustrates the connections between race, ethnicity, and consumption by focusing on a specific theme: identity, crossing cultures, marketing and advertising, neighborhoods, discrimination, and social activism. By exploring issues such as multicultural marketing, cultural appropriation, consum…
Branding Indigeneity: Corporate Patronage of the Arts
Although corporate giving is an important source of support for initiatives related to indigenous cultures, it is less clear how companies gain advantages from patronage. This paper develops the concept of branding indigeneity to describe how companies benefit from philanthropy and sponsorships related to indigenous cultures. More specifically, I argue that corporate patronage related to indigenous cultures is a practice through which companies s…
Wingfield, A. H. (2019). Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
Black Culture, Inc: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America
A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America. Open the brochure for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and you'll see logos for corporations like American Express. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, owe their very existence to large corporate donations from companies like General Motors. And while we can easily make sense of t…
Consumption in the Black community: Major themes and new developments
No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools
While the educational exclusion of students who wear hairstyles linked to people of African descent has garnered significant media attention, there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Drawing on content analysis of dress codes in Texas public schools, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by conceptually and empirically elaborating how students who wear dreadlocks are stigmatized in schools. Engaging sociological th…
Black boundaries: Book Review of The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth , by Derron Wallace, Reviewed by Patricia A. Banks
Sociology (12 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (10 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Middle class (5 works)