Denise A Segura
Biographic Data
| ID | 145821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise A Segura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise A |
| FAMILY NAME | Segura |
| SIGNATURE | SEGURA D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8358-5148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Equivalence and theory expansion
This paper presents a novel framework for understanding theoretical equivalence that reconciles two familiar approaches to the problem: formal and content-based. Formal approaches are based on the logical and syntactical features of theories, while content-based approaches focus on their content as construed in various metaphysical approaches to semantics. I argue that these approaches are complementary and that a deeper view of equivalence emerg…
Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies
Mexican American Faculty in Research Universities
Mexican Americans represent the largest Latina/o subpopulation and have the lowest levels of educational attainment in the United States. Mexican Americans are underrepresented in all professional fields, including academia, and thus warrant attention. The purposes of this study are to describe the experiences of early and mid-career Mexican American faculty, emphasizing key sources of inspiration, support, and mentoring, perceived discrimination…
Stratification in the Labor Market
In advanced capitalist nations like the United States, the labor market is organized hierarchically stratified by race‐ethnicity, gender, and class. Historically, societal beliefs concerning marginalized groups including racial/ethnic groups, immigrants, women, and poor people, have fueled inequalities in the labor market. Dual labor market segmentation theories argue that workers from marginalized and oppressed groups disproportionately occupy l…
From Affirmative Action to Diversity
This article explores the contradictory results of the shift from a race‐conscious affirmative action discourse to a broader “diversity embrace” that advocates tolerance, equality, and respect for cultural differences on university campuses. Drawing on critical race theory and research on the practice of affirmative action in organizations, we argue that the diversity embrace subsumes recognition of racialized histories, social relations, and pra…
Aztlán and the Quest for Social Justice in the Borderlands
Perspective/Opinion| April 01 2010 Aztlán and the Quest for Social Justice in the Borderlands Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura, a professor in the Department of Sociology and an affiliated professor in the respective Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, publishes on Chicana feminisms, education, and employment. With Patricia Zavella, she co-edited Women and Migrati…
Adelante Mujer
Latino Los Angeles, Transformations, Communities, and Activism
Navigating between Two Worlds
Undergirded by a theoretical framework, which focuses on the important role of social context, this article focuses primarily on the cultural, institutional, and individual factors explaining how Chicanas fare in academia. To what extent are the experiences of Chicanas exemplary in suggesting similar issues for African-American, Asian, and American Indian women? What strategies have Chicanas employed to help them negotiate the new and ever-changi…
Challenging the Chicano Text
Chicana Political Consciousness
Essay| October 01 1999 Chicana Political Consciousness: Re-negotiating Culture, Class, and Gender with Oppositional Practices Denise A. Segura, Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura, associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has published numerous articles on Chicanas in the labor market, and Chicana feminism and political consciousness. With Beatriz M. Pesquera, …
Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality
Walking on Eggshells
Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs
Using the theoretical perspective originally developed by West and Zimmerman (1987)-wherein gender is viewed as a dynamic, interactional accomplishment rather than a categorical status, this article explores how both gender and race-ethnicity are reinforced and affirmed among 152 selected Chicana white-collar workers in a major public university. Based on results from a 1989-1990 mail survey and in-depth interviews with 35 randomly-selected respo…
Ambivalence or Continuity
Research Article| November 01 1991 Ambivalence or Continuity?: Motherhood and Employment among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women Workers Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura University of California, Sanfa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1991) 20 (1-2): 119–150. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1991.20.1-2.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Pee…
Beyond Indifference and Antipathy
Research Article| November 01 1990 Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse Denise A. Segura, Denise A. Segura University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Beatriz M. Pesquera Beatriz M. Pesquera University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1990) 19 (2): 69–92. http…
Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women at Work
This article explores the process and meaning of occupational mobility among a selected sample of 40 immigrant and nonimmigrant women of Mexican descent in the San Francisco Bay Area who entered the secondary labor market of semiskilled clerical, service, and operative jobs in 1978-1979 and 1980-1981. This labor market was segmented along race and gender lines with few promotional ladders available as the work force became more nonwhite and femal…
Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women at Work
This article explores the process and meaning of occupational mobility among a selected sample of 40 immigrant and nonimmigrant women of Mexican descent in the San Francisco Bay Area who entered the secondary labor market of semiskilled clerical, service, and operative jobs in 1978-1979 and 1980-1981. This labor market was segmented along race and gender lines with few promotional ladders available as the work force became more nonwhite and femal…
Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality
Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs
Using the theoretical perspective originally developed by West and Zimmerman (1987)-wherein gender is viewed as a dynamic, interactional accomplishment rather than a categorical status, this article explores how both gender and race-ethnicity are reinforced and affirmed among 152 selected Chicana white-collar workers in a major public university. Based on results from a 1989-1990 mail survey and in-depth interviews with 35 randomly-selected respo…
Navigating between Two Worlds
Undergirded by a theoretical framework, which focuses on the important role of social context, this article focuses primarily on the cultural, institutional, and individual factors explaining how Chicanas fare in academia. To what extent are the experiences of Chicanas exemplary in suggesting similar issues for African-American, Asian, and American Indian women? What strategies have Chicanas employed to help them negotiate the new and ever-changi…
Beyond Indifference and Antipathy
Research Article| November 01 1990 Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse Denise A. Segura, Denise A. Segura University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Beatriz M. Pesquera Beatriz M. Pesquera University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1990) 19 (2): 69–92. http…
Mexican American Faculty in Research Universities
Mexican Americans represent the largest Latina/o subpopulation and have the lowest levels of educational attainment in the United States. Mexican Americans are underrepresented in all professional fields, including academia, and thus warrant attention. The purposes of this study are to describe the experiences of early and mid-career Mexican American faculty, emphasizing key sources of inspiration, support, and mentoring, perceived discrimination…
From Affirmative Action to Diversity
This article explores the contradictory results of the shift from a race‐conscious affirmative action discourse to a broader “diversity embrace” that advocates tolerance, equality, and respect for cultural differences on university campuses. Drawing on critical race theory and research on the practice of affirmative action in organizations, we argue that the diversity embrace subsumes recognition of racialized histories, social relations, and pra…
Challenging the Chicano Text
Chicana Political Consciousness
Essay| October 01 1999 Chicana Political Consciousness: Re-negotiating Culture, Class, and Gender with Oppositional Practices Denise A. Segura, Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura, associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has published numerous articles on Chicanas in the labor market, and Chicana feminism and political consciousness. With Beatriz M. Pesquera, …
Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women at Work
This article explores the process and meaning of occupational mobility among a selected sample of 40 immigrant and nonimmigrant women of Mexican descent in the San Francisco Bay Area who entered the secondary labor market of semiskilled clerical, service, and operative jobs in 1978-1979 and 1980-1981. This labor market was segmented along race and gender lines with few promotional ladders available as the work force became more nonwhite and femal…
Beyond Indifference and Antipathy
Research Article| November 01 1990 Beyond Indifference and Antipathy: The Chicana Movement and Chicana Feminist Discourse Denise A. Segura, Denise A. Segura University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Beatriz M. Pesquera Beatriz M. Pesquera University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1990) 19 (2): 69–92. http…
Ambivalence or Continuity
Research Article| November 01 1991 Ambivalence or Continuity?: Motherhood and Employment among Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Women Workers Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura University of California, Sanfa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1991) 20 (1-2): 119–150. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1991.20.1-2.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Pee…
Walking on Eggshells
Chicanas in White-Collar Jobs
Using the theoretical perspective originally developed by West and Zimmerman (1987)-wherein gender is viewed as a dynamic, interactional accomplishment rather than a categorical status, this article explores how both gender and race-ethnicity are reinforced and affirmed among 152 selected Chicana white-collar workers in a major public university. Based on results from a 1989-1990 mail survey and in-depth interviews with 35 randomly-selected respo…
Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality
Chicana Political Consciousness
Essay| October 01 1999 Chicana Political Consciousness: Re-negotiating Culture, Class, and Gender with Oppositional Practices Denise A. Segura, Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura, associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has published numerous articles on Chicanas in the labor market, and Chicana feminism and political consciousness. With Beatriz M. Pesquera, …
Challenging the Chicano Text
Navigating between Two Worlds
Undergirded by a theoretical framework, which focuses on the important role of social context, this article focuses primarily on the cultural, institutional, and individual factors explaining how Chicanas fare in academia. To what extent are the experiences of Chicanas exemplary in suggesting similar issues for African-American, Asian, and American Indian women? What strategies have Chicanas employed to help them negotiate the new and ever-changi…
Latino Los Angeles, Transformations, Communities, and Activism
Adelante Mujer
Aztlán and the Quest for Social Justice in the Borderlands
Perspective/Opinion| April 01 2010 Aztlán and the Quest for Social Justice in the Borderlands Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura Denise A. Segura, a professor in the Department of Sociology and an affiliated professor in the respective Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, publishes on Chicana feminisms, education, and employment. With Patricia Zavella, she co-edited Women and Migrati…
From Affirmative Action to Diversity
This article explores the contradictory results of the shift from a race‐conscious affirmative action discourse to a broader “diversity embrace” that advocates tolerance, equality, and respect for cultural differences on university campuses. Drawing on critical race theory and research on the practice of affirmative action in organizations, we argue that the diversity embrace subsumes recognition of racialized histories, social relations, and pra…
Stratification in the Labor Market
In advanced capitalist nations like the United States, the labor market is organized hierarchically stratified by race‐ethnicity, gender, and class. Historically, societal beliefs concerning marginalized groups including racial/ethnic groups, immigrants, women, and poor people, have fueled inequalities in the labor market. Dual labor market segmentation theories argue that workers from marginalized and oppressed groups disproportionately occupy l…
Mexican American Faculty in Research Universities
Mexican Americans represent the largest Latina/o subpopulation and have the lowest levels of educational attainment in the United States. Mexican Americans are underrepresented in all professional fields, including academia, and thus warrant attention. The purposes of this study are to describe the experiences of early and mid-career Mexican American faculty, emphasizing key sources of inspiration, support, and mentoring, perceived discrimination…
Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies
Equivalence and theory expansion
This paper presents a novel framework for understanding theoretical equivalence that reconciles two familiar approaches to the problem: formal and content-based. Formal approaches are based on the logical and syntactical features of theories, while content-based approaches focus on their content as construed in various metaphysical approaches to semantics. I argue that these approaches are complementary and that a deeper view of equivalence emerg…
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