Matt Wray
Biographic Data
| ID | 206194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Wray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Wray |
| SIGNATURE | WRAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Whiteness and American Literature
This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present – Whiteness and American Literature considers how a broad spectrum of novels, movies, short stories, television shows, poems, songs, and other works de…
White Trash: Race and Class in America
White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media
It&s;s tempting to say that Planet of the Apes is a white racist&s;s nightmare, \nbut white racial self-representation is far from simply racist. To analyze representations of whiteness like those in Planet of the Apes, one needs to ask \ntwo basic questions about them: how do they reflect the ways non-whites \nview whites, and how do they reflect the way whites view themselves? These \nare the same questions, in reduced and simplified form, that…
White Trash: Race and Class in America
Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy
Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy." The Social Science Journal, 50(2), pp. 270–271
The Role of Medicolegal Systems in Producing Geographic Variation in Suicide Rates
Objectives In this analysis, we ask whether there is systematic variation in the reporting of suicide by medicolegal system and if so whether this biases estimated effects of social correlates on suicide. Methods With cause of death records (1999–2002) and 2000 Census data, we use negative binomial regression to analyze the effects of medicolegal system on suicide and nonsuicide mortality aggregated at county of occurrence. Results We find that e…
Beyond social control: Prevalence research and the uses of expert knowledge
Given the predominance of the “psy” sciences in the gambling studies field, more theorizing of the kind that Young (2012, in this issue) has done is sorely needed. Importantly, Young points to the
Estimating visitor suicide risk in destination cities: A reply to Zarkowski and Nguyen
Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege
MAKING THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: RURAL LANDSCAPES, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND WHITE PRIVILEGE." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2212–2213
The Sociology of Suicide
Since Durkheim's classic work on suicide, sociological attention to understanding the roots of self-destruction has been inconsistent. In this review, we use three historical periods of interest (pre-Durkheim, Durkheim, post-Durkheim) to organize basic findings in the body of sociological knowledge regarding suicide. Much of the twentieth-century research focused on issues of integration and regulation, imitation, and the social construction of s…
Leaving Las Vegas: Exposure to Las Vegas and risk of suicide
Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations
Book Review| July 01 2007 Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations, Monica McDermott. Matt Wray Matt Wray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543216 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matt Wray;…
Legal Gambling and Problem Gambling as Mechanisms of Social Domination? Some Considerations for Future Research
Sociological attention to gambling has been long-standing but sporadic and limited both methodologically and theoretically. This article argues that recent changes in attitudes and laws about gambling and new efforts to measure and remediate the psychosocial costs and effects of problem gambling have combined with contemporary forms of wealth redistribution and racial and class oppression to produce a new mechanism of social domination. This mech…
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
A Blast from the Past: Preserving and Interpreting the Atomic Age
The Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project, Las Vegas, Nevada The Nevada Testing Archive, Las Vegas, Nevada Has anything been as controversial or consequential in global politics and history as atomic weapons and nuclear technology? In America, proponents have argued that atomic weapons were necessary to end the cycle of world wars that marred the first half of the twentieth century and that, if properl…
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
This collection of essays had its origins in an era of political outrage and sorrow for antiracists in California. In 1992 three police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted by an all-white jury. The next several years saw rising agitation against undocumented workers. In 1996 Proposition 209 ended affirmative action programs in all state agencies, including the University of California system. A reading group of University of California g…
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
Bringing together essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organisers, and anti-racist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the 'second wave' of whiteness studies who collectively aim to combat the historical legacies …
The Sociology of Suicide
Since Durkheim's classic work on suicide, sociological attention to understanding the roots of self-destruction has been inconsistent. In this review, we use three historical periods of interest (pre-Durkheim, Durkheim, post-Durkheim) to organize basic findings in the body of sociological knowledge regarding suicide. Much of the twentieth-century research focused on issues of integration and regulation, imitation, and the social construction of s…
Leaving Las Vegas: Exposure to Las Vegas and risk of suicide
Legal Gambling and Problem Gambling as Mechanisms of Social Domination? Some Considerations for Future Research
Sociological attention to gambling has been long-standing but sporadic and limited both methodologically and theoretically. This article argues that recent changes in attitudes and laws about gambling and new efforts to measure and remediate the psychosocial costs and effects of problem gambling have combined with contemporary forms of wealth redistribution and racial and class oppression to produce a new mechanism of social domination. This mech…
A Blast from the Past: Preserving and Interpreting the Atomic Age
The Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project, Las Vegas, Nevada The Nevada Testing Archive, Las Vegas, Nevada Has anything been as controversial or consequential in global politics and history as atomic weapons and nuclear technology? In America, proponents have argued that atomic weapons were necessary to end the cycle of world wars that marred the first half of the twentieth century and that, if properl…
The Role of Medicolegal Systems in Producing Geographic Variation in Suicide Rates
Objectives In this analysis, we ask whether there is systematic variation in the reporting of suicide by medicolegal system and if so whether this biases estimated effects of social correlates on suicide. Methods With cause of death records (1999–2002) and 2000 Census data, we use negative binomial regression to analyze the effects of medicolegal system on suicide and nonsuicide mortality aggregated at county of occurrence. Results We find that e…
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
This collection of essays had its origins in an era of political outrage and sorrow for antiracists in California. In 1992 three police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted by an all-white jury. The next several years saw rising agitation against undocumented workers. In 1996 Proposition 209 ended affirmative action programs in all state agencies, including the University of California system. A reading group of University of California g…
Estimating visitor suicide risk in destination cities: A reply to Zarkowski and Nguyen
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
Bringing together essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organisers, and anti-racist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the 'second wave' of whiteness studies who collectively aim to combat the historical legacies …
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
This collection of essays had its origins in an era of political outrage and sorrow for antiracists in California. In 1992 three police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted by an all-white jury. The next several years saw rising agitation against undocumented workers. In 1996 Proposition 209 ended affirmative action programs in all state agencies, including the University of California system. A reading group of University of California g…
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
A Blast from the Past: Preserving and Interpreting the Atomic Age
The Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project, Las Vegas, Nevada The Nevada Testing Archive, Las Vegas, Nevada Has anything been as controversial or consequential in global politics and history as atomic weapons and nuclear technology? In America, proponents have argued that atomic weapons were necessary to end the cycle of world wars that marred the first half of the twentieth century and that, if properl…
Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations
Book Review| July 01 2007 Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations, Monica McDermott. Matt Wray Matt Wray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (4): 111–113. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543216 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Matt Wray;…
Legal Gambling and Problem Gambling as Mechanisms of Social Domination? Some Considerations for Future Research
Sociological attention to gambling has been long-standing but sporadic and limited both methodologically and theoretically. This article argues that recent changes in attitudes and laws about gambling and new efforts to measure and remediate the psychosocial costs and effects of problem gambling have combined with contemporary forms of wealth redistribution and racial and class oppression to produce a new mechanism of social domination. This mech…
Leaving Las Vegas: Exposure to Las Vegas and risk of suicide
Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege
MAKING THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY: RURAL LANDSCAPES, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND WHITE PRIVILEGE." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2212–2213
The Sociology of Suicide
Since Durkheim's classic work on suicide, sociological attention to understanding the roots of self-destruction has been inconsistent. In this review, we use three historical periods of interest (pre-Durkheim, Durkheim, post-Durkheim) to organize basic findings in the body of sociological knowledge regarding suicide. Much of the twentieth-century research focused on issues of integration and regulation, imitation, and the social construction of s…
Beyond social control: Prevalence research and the uses of expert knowledge
Given the predominance of the “psy” sciences in the gambling studies field, more theorizing of the kind that Young (2012, in this issue) has done is sorely needed. Importantly, Young points to the
Estimating visitor suicide risk in destination cities: A reply to Zarkowski and Nguyen
White Trash: Race and Class in America
White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media
It&s;s tempting to say that Planet of the Apes is a white racist&s;s nightmare, \nbut white racial self-representation is far from simply racist. To analyze representations of whiteness like those in Planet of the Apes, one needs to ask \ntwo basic questions about them: how do they reflect the ways non-whites \nview whites, and how do they reflect the way whites view themselves? These \nare the same questions, in reduced and simplified form, that…
White Trash: Race and Class in America
Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy
Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy." The Social Science Journal, 50(2), pp. 270–271
The Role of Medicolegal Systems in Producing Geographic Variation in Suicide Rates
Objectives In this analysis, we ask whether there is systematic variation in the reporting of suicide by medicolegal system and if so whether this biases estimated effects of social correlates on suicide. Methods With cause of death records (1999–2002) and 2000 Census data, we use negative binomial regression to analyze the effects of medicolegal system on suicide and nonsuicide mortality aggregated at county of occurrence. Results We find that e…
Whiteness and American Literature
This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present – Whiteness and American Literature considers how a broad spectrum of novels, movies, short stories, television shows, poems, songs, and other works de…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Race identity (4 works) · Social classes (4 works)