Vilna Bashi Treitler
Biographic Data
| ID | 211202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vilna Bashi Treitler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vilna Bashi |
| FAMILY NAME | Treitler |
| SIGNATURE | TREITLER V B |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5692-1077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience: Lessons From a Critical Synergy
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of the book's contents, author Vilna Bashi focuses on the promise that synergy might contribute to new insights in sociological theory. Here, she agrees with Meghi, that sociologists approach theory in our work by tending toward synthesis, where synergy will…
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking
Sociologists agree that teaching critical thinking is a key pedagogical goal, and we seem to think of ourselves as critical thinkers. But what does that mean? I see no clear disciplinary consensus defining critical thinking, nor what it means specifically for sociology. While I think it is an important part of our writing, speaking, and teaching, my own ideas on critical thinking simply do not seem to be included in the general definitional frame…
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies
Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi
Is Compromise Possible
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
Outsider Scholars and Outsider Sociologists
If we take the time to look at the academy writ large and sociology as a discipline specifically, we can readily find the evidence to confirm a long‐standing exclusion of certain scholars from the academic mainstream. This exclusion is especially evident in the case of scholars of color, but also includes women, nonelites (e.g., college and graduate students who lack academic social capital from elders who have been through it and could help), an…
O Estado Racial Da União: Compreendendo raça e desigualdade racial nos Estados Unidos da América
Este artigo investiga o papel da raça e do racismo nos Estados Unidos da América. Ele trata de raça como conceito, explorando, primordialmente, o motivo da existência de categorias raciais e da desigualdade racial. Também, nele, examinamos a atual situação da raça nos Estados Unidos ao expor suas manifestações sociais, econômicas e políticas. Após explorar a magnitude da desigualdade racial nos Estados Unidos, trabalhamos para desvendar os mecani…
Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America
This article offers a template for understanding and analyzing racialization as a paradigm. Further, this template is applied to the North American case - an important one because it has endured and spread across the globe despite the enormous weight of scientific evidence against it. The fallacy of race (and in particular the North American Anglo-origin variant) endures for two reasons. First, social agents seeking to gain or maintain power and …
Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective: An introduction
The contribution in this introduction, and in this monograph issue of Current Sociology itself, is to explain how patterns of inequality associated with global capital have been reconfigured in different contexts and have historically produced varied results. The definition of global inequality used here transcends Euro- and US-centric models of linear development and comparisons of national income and its distribution to explain how complex soci…
Hierarchy, Racial
Races are categories of human groups that loosely relate to phenotype. Humans are assigned to racial categories by onlookers who draw upon some racial common sense that describes the criteria for assignment, and also ranks the categories hierarchically. Racial hierarchy exists in order to afford the members of each race certain privileges or certain demerits—this inequality is the very definition of racism, which is structural as well as interper…
Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration Studies
Assimilation scholarship is rooted in the race relations framework that has been critiqued for providing legitimacy to the prevailing racial order, not least because it credits ethno-racial group agency as the mechanism that causes inequities among groups' socioeconomic outcomes and the degrees to which they are socially accepted. To explain socioeconomic inequities, alternative frames centering on racialization and structural racism look to whit…
Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration among Europeans in Post-War Britain
Globalized anti-blackness: Transnationalizing Western immigration law, policy, and practice
The racial category "black" is not merely an excluded category in a history of documented Western preference for "white" immigrants. Comparative historical evidence shows clear strategies to keep black persons out of First World nations, except as temporary labour. In this climate, black migration occurs partly because each nation has an ambivalent relationship to the black labourers, soldiers and seamen who offer their service expecting membersh…
Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century
Racial categories matter because racial hierarchies matter: A Commentary
New racial categories emerge with the progress of history, as new names reinterpret the existence and chronicle the insertion of demographic subgroups into a population. The analysis of categorical change is hardly unimportant work. However, we as researchers would be lax in our analyses if we did not understand that as racial categories change, so do racial hierarchies. To know what a group calls itself is only part of the story. Knowing the cul…
A Theory of Immigration And Racial Stratification
Racial systems must have mechanisms for determining who is in which race for that determines where people families and other groups fit into the racial hierarchy. In the United States immigration has played an important role in shaping that hierarchy. Immigrants enter the United States and are assimilated into the dominant social organization and this process includes assimilation into the system of racial stratification.... We will focus on this…
Globalization and Residential Segregation by Race
The United States has long been characterized by racial segregation in residence. As the country moves into a period of increasing global interaction, these questions might be posed: Will globalization effect change in U.S. residence patterns by race? If so, how? If not, why not? To consider these questions, we briefly review segregation in the United States and present data for eight metropolitan areas to illustrate the extent of residential seg…
Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903. Shamoon Zamir
Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration Studies
Assimilation scholarship is rooted in the race relations framework that has been critiqued for providing legitimacy to the prevailing racial order, not least because it credits ethno-racial group agency as the mechanism that causes inequities among groups' socioeconomic outcomes and the degrees to which they are socially accepted. To explain socioeconomic inequities, alternative frames centering on racialization and structural racism look to whit…
Globalized anti-blackness: Transnationalizing Western immigration law, policy, and practice
The racial category "black" is not merely an excluded category in a history of documented Western preference for "white" immigrants. Comparative historical evidence shows clear strategies to keep black persons out of First World nations, except as temporary labour. In this climate, black migration occurs partly because each nation has an ambivalent relationship to the black labourers, soldiers and seamen who offer their service expecting membersh…
Racial categories matter because racial hierarchies matter: A Commentary
New racial categories emerge with the progress of history, as new names reinterpret the existence and chronicle the insertion of demographic subgroups into a population. The analysis of categorical change is hardly unimportant work. However, we as researchers would be lax in our analyses if we did not understand that as racial categories change, so do racial hierarchies. To know what a group calls itself is only part of the story. Knowing the cul…
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies
Outsider Scholars and Outsider Sociologists
If we take the time to look at the academy writ large and sociology as a discipline specifically, we can readily find the evidence to confirm a long‐standing exclusion of certain scholars from the academic mainstream. This exclusion is especially evident in the case of scholars of color, but also includes women, nonelites (e.g., college and graduate students who lack academic social capital from elders who have been through it and could help), an…
Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective: An introduction
The contribution in this introduction, and in this monograph issue of Current Sociology itself, is to explain how patterns of inequality associated with global capital have been reconfigured in different contexts and have historically produced varied results. The definition of global inequality used here transcends Euro- and US-centric models of linear development and comparisons of national income and its distribution to explain how complex soci…
Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience: Lessons From a Critical Synergy
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of the book's contents, author Vilna Bashi focuses on the promise that synergy might contribute to new insights in sociological theory. Here, she agrees with Meghi, that sociologists approach theory in our work by tending toward synthesis, where synergy will…
Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America
This article offers a template for understanding and analyzing racialization as a paradigm. Further, this template is applied to the North American case - an important one because it has endured and spread across the globe despite the enormous weight of scientific evidence against it. The fallacy of race (and in particular the North American Anglo-origin variant) endures for two reasons. First, social agents seeking to gain or maintain power and …
Globalization and Residential Segregation by Race
The United States has long been characterized by racial segregation in residence. As the country moves into a period of increasing global interaction, these questions might be posed: Will globalization effect change in U.S. residence patterns by race? If so, how? If not, why not? To consider these questions, we briefly review segregation in the United States and present data for eight metropolitan areas to illustrate the extent of residential seg…
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking
Sociologists agree that teaching critical thinking is a key pedagogical goal, and we seem to think of ourselves as critical thinkers. But what does that mean? I see no clear disciplinary consensus defining critical thinking, nor what it means specifically for sociology. While I think it is an important part of our writing, speaking, and teaching, my own ideas on critical thinking simply do not seem to be included in the general definitional frame…
O Estado Racial Da União: Compreendendo raça e desigualdade racial nos Estados Unidos da América
Este artigo investiga o papel da raça e do racismo nos Estados Unidos da América. Ele trata de raça como conceito, explorando, primordialmente, o motivo da existência de categorias raciais e da desigualdade racial. Também, nele, examinamos a atual situação da raça nos Estados Unidos ao expor suas manifestações sociais, econômicas e políticas. Após explorar a magnitude da desigualdade racial nos Estados Unidos, trabalhamos para desvendar os mecani…
Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903. Shamoon Zamir
Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903. Shamoon Zamir
A Theory of Immigration And Racial Stratification
Racial systems must have mechanisms for determining who is in which race for that determines where people families and other groups fit into the racial hierarchy. In the United States immigration has played an important role in shaping that hierarchy. Immigrants enter the United States and are assimilated into the dominant social organization and this process includes assimilation into the system of racial stratification.... We will focus on this…
Globalization and Residential Segregation by Race
The United States has long been characterized by racial segregation in residence. As the country moves into a period of increasing global interaction, these questions might be posed: Will globalization effect change in U.S. residence patterns by race? If so, how? If not, why not? To consider these questions, we briefly review segregation in the United States and present data for eight metropolitan areas to illustrate the extent of residential seg…
Racial categories matter because racial hierarchies matter: A Commentary
New racial categories emerge with the progress of history, as new names reinterpret the existence and chronicle the insertion of demographic subgroups into a population. The analysis of categorical change is hardly unimportant work. However, we as researchers would be lax in our analyses if we did not understand that as racial categories change, so do racial hierarchies. To know what a group calls itself is only part of the story. Knowing the cul…
Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean Women in the Twentieth Century
Globalized anti-blackness: Transnationalizing Western immigration law, policy, and practice
The racial category "black" is not merely an excluded category in a history of documented Western preference for "white" immigrants. Comparative historical evidence shows clear strategies to keep black persons out of First World nations, except as temporary labour. In this climate, black migration occurs partly because each nation has an ambivalent relationship to the black labourers, soldiers and seamen who offer their service expecting membersh…
Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration among Europeans in Post-War Britain
The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
Hierarchy, Racial
Races are categories of human groups that loosely relate to phenotype. Humans are assigned to racial categories by onlookers who draw upon some racial common sense that describes the criteria for assignment, and also ranks the categories hierarchically. Racial hierarchy exists in order to afford the members of each race certain privileges or certain demerits—this inequality is the very definition of racism, which is structural as well as interper…
Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration Studies
Assimilation scholarship is rooted in the race relations framework that has been critiqued for providing legitimacy to the prevailing racial order, not least because it credits ethno-racial group agency as the mechanism that causes inequities among groups' socioeconomic outcomes and the degrees to which they are socially accepted. To explain socioeconomic inequities, alternative frames centering on racialization and structural racism look to whit…
Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America
This article offers a template for understanding and analyzing racialization as a paradigm. Further, this template is applied to the North American case - an important one because it has endured and spread across the globe despite the enormous weight of scientific evidence against it. The fallacy of race (and in particular the North American Anglo-origin variant) endures for two reasons. First, social agents seeking to gain or maintain power and …
Dynamics of inequalities in a global perspective: An introduction
The contribution in this introduction, and in this monograph issue of Current Sociology itself, is to explain how patterns of inequality associated with global capital have been reconfigured in different contexts and have historically produced varied results. The definition of global inequality used here transcends Euro- and US-centric models of linear development and comparisons of national income and its distribution to explain how complex soci…
Outsider Scholars and Outsider Sociologists
If we take the time to look at the academy writ large and sociology as a discipline specifically, we can readily find the evidence to confirm a long‐standing exclusion of certain scholars from the academic mainstream. This exclusion is especially evident in the case of scholars of color, but also includes women, nonelites (e.g., college and graduate students who lack academic social capital from elders who have been through it and could help), an…
O Estado Racial Da União: Compreendendo raça e desigualdade racial nos Estados Unidos da América
Este artigo investiga o papel da raça e do racismo nos Estados Unidos da América. Ele trata de raça como conceito, explorando, primordialmente, o motivo da existência de categorias raciais e da desigualdade racial. Também, nele, examinamos a atual situação da raça nos Estados Unidos ao expor suas manifestações sociais, econômicas e políticas. Após explorar a magnitude da desigualdade racial nos Estados Unidos, trabalhamos para desvendar os mecani…
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
Is Compromise Possible
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking
Sociologists agree that teaching critical thinking is a key pedagogical goal, and we seem to think of ourselves as critical thinkers. But what does that mean? I see no clear disciplinary consensus defining critical thinking, nor what it means specifically for sociology. While I think it is an important part of our writing, speaking, and teaching, my own ideas on critical thinking simply do not seem to be included in the general definitional frame…
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies
Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi
Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience: Lessons From a Critical Synergy
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of the book's contents, author Vilna Bashi focuses on the promise that synergy might contribute to new insights in sociological theory. Here, she agrees with Meghi, that sociologists approach theory in our work by tending toward synthesis, where synergy will…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Racism (5 works)