Tamara K Nopper
Biographic Data
| ID | 258121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara K Nopper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara K |
| FAMILY NAME | Nopper |
| SIGNATURE | NOPPER T K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7154-656X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bringing Our Small, Imperfect Stones to the Pile”: The Everyday Work of Building a More Just World
In this conversation between Brittany Pearl Battle and Tamara K. Nopper (facilitated by Antonia Randolph), two sociologists who have been involved in a variety of social justice struggles (e.g. prison abolition, worker’s rights, Asian American rights), describe the everyday practices that make up struggles for social justice. They identify a spectrum of practices that individuals can do to bring about a more just world, while arguing that all pra…
On Inheritances
In this presentation for the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tamara K. Nopper analyzes the emergent discourses of "anti-Asian violence" and "Black-Asian solidarity" within historical and sociological contexts. She begins with a discussion of the importance of the 1980s and 1990s as formative moments in terms of post-Asian American Movement organizational infrastructure. She then discusses interracial violence, the coeval growth of hate crime da…
On Race and Money
Mary Pattillo's Sociology of the Black Middle Class
On Teaching as Activism
This essay explores the relationship between teaching and activism by interrogating if teaching in higher education should be considered activism. Through a discussion of my commitment to data literacy and how participatory democracy, as practiced by Black Freedom Movement organizer Ella Baker, informs my pedagogy, I interrogate if activism and academic labor should be conflated. In the process I examine how my assessment is informed by my relati…
Revisiting “Black–Korean Conflict” and the “Myth of Special Assistance”: Korean Banks, US Government Agencies, and the Capitalization of Korean Immigrant Small Business in the United States
A major source of contention fueling “Black–Korean conflict” is the claim put forth by many African Americans that Korean immigrants receive special support from banks and the American government to open their businesses. In response, scholars argue that this claim is a myth, that Koreans are disadvantaged in terms of access to resources from banks and government institutions, and that they must therefore rely on co-ethnic resources. Yet the preo…
The Wages of Non-Blackness: Contemporary Immigrant Rights and Discourses of Character, Productivity, and Value
Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois’ concept of the psychological wage of whiteness, this article explores how contemporary rhetoric promoted by immigrant rights advocates in the United States valorizes non-white immigrant workers in relationship to African Americans. Specifically, I examine moralized claims regarding immigrants’ character, productivity, and value as well as their contributions to the U.S. and global economy. I emphasize how this discour…
Minority, Black and Non-Black People of Color: New' Color-Blind Racism and the US Small Business Administration's Approach to Minority Business Lending in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This study examines the current approach of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to minority lending and considers the implications for minority business development in the post-civil rights era. Interviews with SBA employees in Los Angeles and New York reveal that the SBA takes a 'new' color-blind approach that emphasizes race and minority status but fails to address racial stratification. I analyze the SBA's conceptualization of minority,…
Where to Look: A Response to Min and Park Regarding Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Disadvantage Thesis, and Colorblind Racism
Colorblind Racism and Institutional Actors' Explanations of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship
This article critically interrogates how colorblind racial ideology and the disadvantage thesis, a common explanation for immigrant entrepreneurship, rhetorically inform one another. I interview 81 representatives of Korean banks and seven US federal government institutions to determine how they explain the concentration of Korean immigrants in USA-based entrepreneurship. Consistent with the sociological literature, I find that respondents cite d…
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction Tamara K. Nopper (bio) Riots, Narrative, and Fiction It is difficult to read any lengthy reflection of race relations written by an Asian American without coming across some mention of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The desire to tell the story of the riots and their actual (re)telling has helped to produce a core narrative that is consistently found in acco…
Colorblind Racism and Institutional Actors' Explanations of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship
This article critically interrogates how colorblind racial ideology and the disadvantage thesis, a common explanation for immigrant entrepreneurship, rhetorically inform one another. I interview 81 representatives of Korean banks and seven US federal government institutions to determine how they explain the concentration of Korean immigrants in USA-based entrepreneurship. Consistent with the sociological literature, I find that respondents cite d…
Minority, Black and Non-Black People of Color: New' Color-Blind Racism and the US Small Business Administration's Approach to Minority Business Lending in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This study examines the current approach of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to minority lending and considers the implications for minority business development in the post-civil rights era. Interviews with SBA employees in Los Angeles and New York reveal that the SBA takes a 'new' color-blind approach that emphasizes race and minority status but fails to address racial stratification. I analyze the SBA's conceptualization of minority,…
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction Tamara K. Nopper (bio) Riots, Narrative, and Fiction It is difficult to read any lengthy reflection of race relations written by an Asian American without coming across some mention of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The desire to tell the story of the riots and their actual (re)telling has helped to produce a core narrative that is consistently found in acco…
On Teaching as Activism
This essay explores the relationship between teaching and activism by interrogating if teaching in higher education should be considered activism. Through a discussion of my commitment to data literacy and how participatory democracy, as practiced by Black Freedom Movement organizer Ella Baker, informs my pedagogy, I interrogate if activism and academic labor should be conflated. In the process I examine how my assessment is informed by my relati…
On Inheritances
In this presentation for the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tamara K. Nopper analyzes the emergent discourses of "anti-Asian violence" and "Black-Asian solidarity" within historical and sociological contexts. She begins with a discussion of the importance of the 1980s and 1990s as formative moments in terms of post-Asian American Movement organizational infrastructure. She then discusses interracial violence, the coeval growth of hate crime da…
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction Tamara K. Nopper (bio) Riots, Narrative, and Fiction It is difficult to read any lengthy reflection of race relations written by an Asian American without coming across some mention of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The desire to tell the story of the riots and their actual (re)telling has helped to produce a core narrative that is consistently found in acco…
Where to Look: A Response to Min and Park Regarding Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship, the Disadvantage Thesis, and Colorblind Racism
Colorblind Racism and Institutional Actors' Explanations of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship
This article critically interrogates how colorblind racial ideology and the disadvantage thesis, a common explanation for immigrant entrepreneurship, rhetorically inform one another. I interview 81 representatives of Korean banks and seven US federal government institutions to determine how they explain the concentration of Korean immigrants in USA-based entrepreneurship. Consistent with the sociological literature, I find that respondents cite d…
The Wages of Non-Blackness: Contemporary Immigrant Rights and Discourses of Character, Productivity, and Value
Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois’ concept of the psychological wage of whiteness, this article explores how contemporary rhetoric promoted by immigrant rights advocates in the United States valorizes non-white immigrant workers in relationship to African Americans. Specifically, I examine moralized claims regarding immigrants’ character, productivity, and value as well as their contributions to the U.S. and global economy. I emphasize how this discour…
Minority, Black and Non-Black People of Color: New' Color-Blind Racism and the US Small Business Administration's Approach to Minority Business Lending in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This study examines the current approach of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to minority lending and considers the implications for minority business development in the post-civil rights era. Interviews with SBA employees in Los Angeles and New York reveal that the SBA takes a 'new' color-blind approach that emphasizes race and minority status but fails to address racial stratification. I analyze the SBA's conceptualization of minority,…
Revisiting “Black–Korean Conflict” and the “Myth of Special Assistance”: Korean Banks, US Government Agencies, and the Capitalization of Korean Immigrant Small Business in the United States
A major source of contention fueling “Black–Korean conflict” is the claim put forth by many African Americans that Korean immigrants receive special support from banks and the American government to open their businesses. In response, scholars argue that this claim is a myth, that Koreans are disadvantaged in terms of access to resources from banks and government institutions, and that they must therefore rely on co-ethnic resources. Yet the preo…
On Teaching as Activism
This essay explores the relationship between teaching and activism by interrogating if teaching in higher education should be considered activism. Through a discussion of my commitment to data literacy and how participatory democracy, as practiced by Black Freedom Movement organizer Ella Baker, informs my pedagogy, I interrogate if activism and academic labor should be conflated. In the process I examine how my assessment is informed by my relati…
On Inheritances
In this presentation for the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tamara K. Nopper analyzes the emergent discourses of "anti-Asian violence" and "Black-Asian solidarity" within historical and sociological contexts. She begins with a discussion of the importance of the 1980s and 1990s as formative moments in terms of post-Asian American Movement organizational infrastructure. She then discusses interracial violence, the coeval growth of hate crime da…
On Race and Money
Mary Pattillo's Sociology of the Black Middle Class
Bringing Our Small, Imperfect Stones to the Pile”: The Everyday Work of Building a More Just World
In this conversation between Brittany Pearl Battle and Tamara K. Nopper (facilitated by Antonia Randolph), two sociologists who have been involved in a variety of social justice struggles (e.g. prison abolition, worker’s rights, Asian American rights), describe the everyday practices that make up struggles for social justice. They identify a spectrum of practices that individuals can do to bring about a more just world, while arguing that all pra…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)