M Kromidas
Biographic Data
| ID | 16369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kromidas |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kromidas |
| SIGNATURE | KROMIDAS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Paterson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9283-6950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making humans capital
This article demonstrates how motherhood and childhood provide a unique vantage point from which to understand contemporary shifts in capital’s domination of subjectivity in neoliberalism. Under the guises of increasing the odds of children’s ‘success’ in a precarious future, capital stealthily tethers mothers’ care of children to the rule of value through human capital theory. Human capital theory provides capital’s unique form of power – ‘the s…
Mothering and the Racialised Production of School and Property Value in New York City
This article explores middle‐class mothers’ labours associated with relocating for a “good school” in NYC as they navigated the material and ideological structures of scarcity related to its highly unequal school system. Based on ethnographic research with a diverse group of women in a middle‐class area, I document the multiple ongoing labours associated with this “choice”, and trace how the neoliberal education complex (that includes testing and…
“When I was a kid
Agent of Revolutionary Thought”
In “Gorilla, My Love,” Toni Cade Bambara’s Black girl narrator reverses the traditional adult gaze on the child to disrupt our taken-for-granted notions of childhood, adulthood, and their relations. Read through the lens of Sylvia Wynter’s poetics of being and becoming human and Avery Gordon’s utopian margins, this story serves as a counter-narrative to that of the hegemonic child and inspires new narratives as part of enacting liberation. Throug…
Towards the human, after the child of Man
Sylvia Wynter’s wide-ranging intellectual contributions contain a poetics of being and becoming human that serve to counter the hegemony of developmental psychology and its articulation of the child in teacher education. In this article, I use Wynter’s insights to unsettle the universality of this child figure to reveal the child of Man, a genre-specific formulation of the not-yet-fully-human white modal child. In the first part of the article, I…
The 'savage' child and the nature of race
This article intervenes in the scholarship of race by way of the child, demonstrating how childhood is a doubly strategic site in disrupting the ontology of race as natural type or kind. One path involves disentangling children's association with nature, a tragic knot conjoined through a particular conception of the human. This strategy reveals the savage child that apprehends and sorts bodily differences, working to sustain the nature of race. R…
Affiliation or appropriation? Crossing and the politics of race among children in New York City
Based on ethnographic research in a diverse New York City neighborhood, this article examines issues surrounding the practice of crossing from children's perspectives. Crossing refers to the use of language varieties to which one does not have conventional access, practices that could be disparaging or affiliative. The author explores how children distinguished the two types through the principle of authenticity, itself derived by means that went…
Learning War/Learning Race
The tragedy of September 11th produced immense controversy and re-ignited simmering culture wars in the media over the presentation of these events in American schools, or what students should know. The ethnographic research conducted with fourth-grade students in a public school in Brooklyn, New York, side-stepped this debate in order to contribute to it. Specifically, the goal was to capture what children do in fact know through an investigatio…
Towards the human, after the child of Man
Sylvia Wynter’s wide-ranging intellectual contributions contain a poetics of being and becoming human that serve to counter the hegemony of developmental psychology and its articulation of the child in teacher education. In this article, I use Wynter’s insights to unsettle the universality of this child figure to reveal the child of Man, a genre-specific formulation of the not-yet-fully-human white modal child. In the first part of the article, I…
The 'savage' child and the nature of race
This article intervenes in the scholarship of race by way of the child, demonstrating how childhood is a doubly strategic site in disrupting the ontology of race as natural type or kind. One path involves disentangling children's association with nature, a tragic knot conjoined through a particular conception of the human. This strategy reveals the savage child that apprehends and sorts bodily differences, working to sustain the nature of race. R…
Learning War/Learning Race
The tragedy of September 11th produced immense controversy and re-ignited simmering culture wars in the media over the presentation of these events in American schools, or what students should know. The ethnographic research conducted with fourth-grade students in a public school in Brooklyn, New York, side-stepped this debate in order to contribute to it. Specifically, the goal was to capture what children do in fact know through an investigatio…
Affiliation or appropriation? Crossing and the politics of race among children in New York City
Based on ethnographic research in a diverse New York City neighborhood, this article examines issues surrounding the practice of crossing from children's perspectives. Crossing refers to the use of language varieties to which one does not have conventional access, practices that could be disparaging or affiliative. The author explores how children distinguished the two types through the principle of authenticity, itself derived by means that went…
Mothering and the Racialised Production of School and Property Value in New York City
This article explores middle‐class mothers’ labours associated with relocating for a “good school” in NYC as they navigated the material and ideological structures of scarcity related to its highly unequal school system. Based on ethnographic research with a diverse group of women in a middle‐class area, I document the multiple ongoing labours associated with this “choice”, and trace how the neoliberal education complex (that includes testing and…
Learning War/Learning Race
The tragedy of September 11th produced immense controversy and re-ignited simmering culture wars in the media over the presentation of these events in American schools, or what students should know. The ethnographic research conducted with fourth-grade students in a public school in Brooklyn, New York, side-stepped this debate in order to contribute to it. Specifically, the goal was to capture what children do in fact know through an investigatio…
Affiliation or appropriation? Crossing and the politics of race among children in New York City
Based on ethnographic research in a diverse New York City neighborhood, this article examines issues surrounding the practice of crossing from children's perspectives. Crossing refers to the use of language varieties to which one does not have conventional access, practices that could be disparaging or affiliative. The author explores how children distinguished the two types through the principle of authenticity, itself derived by means that went…
The 'savage' child and the nature of race
This article intervenes in the scholarship of race by way of the child, demonstrating how childhood is a doubly strategic site in disrupting the ontology of race as natural type or kind. One path involves disentangling children's association with nature, a tragic knot conjoined through a particular conception of the human. This strategy reveals the savage child that apprehends and sorts bodily differences, working to sustain the nature of race. R…
Agent of Revolutionary Thought”
In “Gorilla, My Love,” Toni Cade Bambara’s Black girl narrator reverses the traditional adult gaze on the child to disrupt our taken-for-granted notions of childhood, adulthood, and their relations. Read through the lens of Sylvia Wynter’s poetics of being and becoming human and Avery Gordon’s utopian margins, this story serves as a counter-narrative to that of the hegemonic child and inspires new narratives as part of enacting liberation. Throug…
Towards the human, after the child of Man
Sylvia Wynter’s wide-ranging intellectual contributions contain a poetics of being and becoming human that serve to counter the hegemony of developmental psychology and its articulation of the child in teacher education. In this article, I use Wynter’s insights to unsettle the universality of this child figure to reveal the child of Man, a genre-specific formulation of the not-yet-fully-human white modal child. In the first part of the article, I…
“When I was a kid
Mothering and the Racialised Production of School and Property Value in New York City
This article explores middle‐class mothers’ labours associated with relocating for a “good school” in NYC as they navigated the material and ideological structures of scarcity related to its highly unequal school system. Based on ethnographic research with a diverse group of women in a middle‐class area, I document the multiple ongoing labours associated with this “choice”, and trace how the neoliberal education complex (that includes testing and…
Making humans capital
This article demonstrates how motherhood and childhood provide a unique vantage point from which to understand contemporary shifts in capital’s domination of subjectivity in neoliberalism. Under the guises of increasing the odds of children’s ‘success’ in a precarious future, capital stealthily tethers mothers’ care of children to the rule of value through human capital theory. Human capital theory provides capital’s unique form of power – ‘the s…
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works)