I Browne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Browne |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Browne |
| SIGNATURE | BROWNE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9042-4090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 651 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Precarious Privilege
Precarious Privilege demonstrates how social class permeates all aspects of the racialization of illegality in Atlanta today, from the stigmatized image of the “typical Latino” as a working-class undocumented Mexican to the political and media elites that construct this image to the heritage belief systems, identities, and markers of prestige that middle-class Latino immigrants deploy to resist such stigmatization. As the intensifying state-spons…
Race, State Surveillance, and Policy Spillover
This paper investigates whether restrictive immigration policy affects earnings among White, African-American, and Latinx US citizens. Incorporating sociological theories of race that point to state surveillance of Black and Latinx bodies as a linchpin of racial inequality, we ask: Do immigration policies that expand the reach of law enforcement spill over to lower or to raise earnings of employed US citizens? If so, are the effects of these poli…
Immigration Coverage in the Black Press and the General Audience Press
This paper has two aims. First, we apply Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate media discourse on race and immigration, demonstrating how features of news organizations influence news content. Second, we compare contemporary natural language processing (NLP) techniques with qualitative hand-coding. Extending a previous study, we compare newspaper articles from the mainstream and black press in Atlanta. We find significant differences in both wor…
An intersectional burden
Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens
This paper investigates the question of whether and how restrictive immigration policies affect the earnings of Latinxs who are not the target of these policies-that is, Latinx citizens. Focusing on policies at the state (E-Verify) and county (287(g)) level, we investigate possible spillover on Latinx citizen earnings from 2006 through 2016. We use multiple sources of data, merging policy and census data with two national probability samples of L…
Presumed Mexican Until Proven Otherwise
Non-Latino natives often conflate 'Latino' with 'Mexican,' treating Mexican as a stigmatized group. Latinos often engage in 'identity work' to neutralize this stigmatized identity. We link these micro processes of identity work with macro structures of stratification through 'intersectional typicality.' We argue that the selection of which positive traits immigrants highlight to avoid stigma is systematic and tied to intersecting dimensions of ra…
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press
The best of both worlds
Race Relations, Black Elites, and Immigration Politics
This paper investigates the question of whether and how race and race relations affect state legislators’ support for restrictive immigration policy. Focusing on the nine new immigration destinations in the US Southeast, we compare the roll call votes cast by African American and White Democratic state legislators on 196 restrictive immigration measures proposed between 2005 and 2012. Overall, the majority of Black Democratic legislators support …
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
Different Game, Different Frame
This article compares the discourse on immigration found in Atlanta's African-American press (Atlanta Daily World) to that found in Atlanta's mainstream press (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). The Daily World's black counterdiscourse situates immigration within a racial frame, discussing Latinos and immigrants interchangeably and casting African Americans as deserving yet excluded citizens. Immigrants appear in the Daily World as either allies in t…
Constructing citizenship
We show how conceptions of ‘market citizenship’ hold a central place in three distinct arenas: political theory; mainstream cultural narratives, and the views expressed by middle class Latino immigrants. Our analyses of both print media coverage and interviews with middle class Latino immigrants demonstrate that the narrative of market citizenship has heavily influenced the collective US understanding of state membership. This project not only fi…
"Juan Crow" in the Nuevo South
In this paper, we apply Omi and Winant's theory of racial formation to understand how a new racial category of "Latino" is being created within Atlanta, a city firmly entrenched in a Black/White binary of race. Comparing Dominicans and Guatemalans in the Atlanta metro area, we show how two processes are "racializing" Latinos: 1) the homogenization of Latinos into a single "race" through state laws and policies and 2) the diversified understanding…
Sexual Needs, Control, and Refusal
The poor are disproportionately affected by unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We know relatively little, however, about the sexual processes behind these disparities. Despite studies of gender enactment's influence on sexual behaviors, few analyses examine the sexual "doing" of social class. We conducted sexual history interviews with 36 women and men, half middle class and half poor and working class. Most responde…
Race, Ethnicity, and Wage Inequality Among Women
This article examines trends in Black-White and Latina-White wage inequality among women from 1989 to 2003. Building on Bound and Dresser's conclusion that the Black-White earnings gap widened in the 1980s, the authors find that in the 1990s and early 21st century, the Black-White earnings differential remained fairly constant and that education plays a pivotal role in the Latina-White earnings gap. In every year, Latinas show larger wage differe…
The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market
This review investigates scholarship on the intersection of race and gender, with a particular focus on the U.S. labor market. We ask the following questions: What assumptions underlie intersectional perspectives in sociology? Is there any evidence to demonstrate that race and gender intersect in the labor market? We begin by discussing the core assumptions within Black and multiracial feminist theories, which represent the most fully articulated…
Why Does Job Segregation Lead To Wage Inequality among African Americans? Person, Place, Sector, or Skills
Opportunities Lost? Race, Industrial Restructuring, and Employment among Young Women Heading Households
Among young household heads, black women are employed at lower rates than white women, following a pattern found among young men. The current article investigates whether theories of industrial restructuring account for the lower employment rates among young black women heading households. In particular, I investigate whether processes involving deindustrialization, spatial mismatch, and skills mismatch lead to different employment outcomes for w…
Social Isolation of the Urban Poor
We focus on the effects of race, class, and neighborhood on social isolation. Using data from households in Atlanta, Georgia, we compare poor and nonpoor African Americans to nonpoor whites on two types of social ties and the social resources inherent in those ties. We find that poverty has an important influence on the social resources available to African Americans in and outside of their household. Poor blacks are less likely than other blacks…
Explaining the Black-White Gap in Labor Force Participation among Women Heading Households
For the first time in this century, Black women are participating in the labor force at lower rates than are White women. The Black-White gap in female labor force participation is driven by those in the severest need of income-women heading households. I compare three explanations of the Black-White gap in labor force participation among female household heads-lack of human capital, lack of opportunities resulting from industrial restructuring, …
The Baby Boom and Trends in Poverty, 1967-1987
The theory of cohort competition developed by Easterlin suggests that individuals born during the baby boom are more likely to be poor than those born before or after them. This article investigates this claim by addressing two questions: Is there any effect of cohort on poverty, and, if so, does this effect follow the pattern predicted by Easterlies theory? A decomposition of poverty by age, period, cohort, and household type shows that among wh…
Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunities
Three fundamental mismatches in labor markets are being played out in the cities: the skills mismatch between the young people emerging from urban school systems and high-paying jobs in the growth sectors of the economy; the spatial mismatch between unemployed workers in the inner cities and the new jobs being generated in the suburbs; and the social mismatch between employers unwilling to take risks in hiring and city youth who from a young age …
Trends in Women's Economic Status
We consider trends over the last several decades in the economic status of women relative to men. Trends in the proportion of women employed outside the home, occupational sex segregation, the sex gap in earnings, and poverty are reviewed. A review of research that provides explanations for these gender inequalities is presented
The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market
This review investigates scholarship on the intersection of race and gender, with a particular focus on the U.S. labor market. We ask the following questions: What assumptions underlie intersectional perspectives in sociology? Is there any evidence to demonstrate that race and gender intersect in the labor market? We begin by discussing the core assumptions within Black and multiracial feminist theories, which represent the most fully articulated…
Social Isolation of the Urban Poor
We focus on the effects of race, class, and neighborhood on social isolation. Using data from households in Atlanta, Georgia, we compare poor and nonpoor African Americans to nonpoor whites on two types of social ties and the social resources inherent in those ties. We find that poverty has an important influence on the social resources available to African Americans in and outside of their household. Poor blacks are less likely than other blacks…
Explaining the Black-White Gap in Labor Force Participation among Women Heading Households
For the first time in this century, Black women are participating in the labor force at lower rates than are White women. The Black-White gap in female labor force participation is driven by those in the severest need of income-women heading households. I compare three explanations of the Black-White gap in labor force participation among female household heads-lack of human capital, lack of opportunities resulting from industrial restructuring, …
"Juan Crow" in the Nuevo South
In this paper, we apply Omi and Winant's theory of racial formation to understand how a new racial category of "Latino" is being created within Atlanta, a city firmly entrenched in a Black/White binary of race. Comparing Dominicans and Guatemalans in the Atlanta metro area, we show how two processes are "racializing" Latinos: 1) the homogenization of Latinos into a single "race" through state laws and policies and 2) the diversified understanding…
Trends in Women's Economic Status
We consider trends over the last several decades in the economic status of women relative to men. Trends in the proportion of women employed outside the home, occupational sex segregation, the sex gap in earnings, and poverty are reviewed. A review of research that provides explanations for these gender inequalities is presented
Sexual Needs, Control, and Refusal
The poor are disproportionately affected by unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We know relatively little, however, about the sexual processes behind these disparities. Despite studies of gender enactment's influence on sexual behaviors, few analyses examine the sexual "doing" of social class. We conducted sexual history interviews with 36 women and men, half middle class and half poor and working class. Most responde…
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press
Race, Ethnicity, and Wage Inequality Among Women
This article examines trends in Black-White and Latina-White wage inequality among women from 1989 to 2003. Building on Bound and Dresser's conclusion that the Black-White earnings gap widened in the 1980s, the authors find that in the 1990s and early 21st century, the Black-White earnings differential remained fairly constant and that education plays a pivotal role in the Latina-White earnings gap. In every year, Latinas show larger wage differe…
Why Does Job Segregation Lead To Wage Inequality among African Americans? Person, Place, Sector, or Skills
Presumed Mexican Until Proven Otherwise
Non-Latino natives often conflate 'Latino' with 'Mexican,' treating Mexican as a stigmatized group. Latinos often engage in 'identity work' to neutralize this stigmatized identity. We link these micro processes of identity work with macro structures of stratification through 'intersectional typicality.' We argue that the selection of which positive traits immigrants highlight to avoid stigma is systematic and tied to intersecting dimensions of ra…
Opportunities Lost? Race, Industrial Restructuring, and Employment among Young Women Heading Households
Among young household heads, black women are employed at lower rates than white women, following a pattern found among young men. The current article investigates whether theories of industrial restructuring account for the lower employment rates among young black women heading households. In particular, I investigate whether processes involving deindustrialization, spatial mismatch, and skills mismatch lead to different employment outcomes for w…
An intersectional burden
The best of both worlds
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
Constructing citizenship
We show how conceptions of ‘market citizenship’ hold a central place in three distinct arenas: political theory; mainstream cultural narratives, and the views expressed by middle class Latino immigrants. Our analyses of both print media coverage and interviews with middle class Latino immigrants demonstrate that the narrative of market citizenship has heavily influenced the collective US understanding of state membership. This project not only fi…
The Baby Boom and Trends in Poverty, 1967-1987
The theory of cohort competition developed by Easterlin suggests that individuals born during the baby boom are more likely to be poor than those born before or after them. This article investigates this claim by addressing two questions: Is there any effect of cohort on poverty, and, if so, does this effect follow the pattern predicted by Easterlies theory? A decomposition of poverty by age, period, cohort, and household type shows that among wh…
Trends in Women's Economic Status
We consider trends over the last several decades in the economic status of women relative to men. Trends in the proportion of women employed outside the home, occupational sex segregation, the sex gap in earnings, and poverty are reviewed. A review of research that provides explanations for these gender inequalities is presented
Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunities
Three fundamental mismatches in labor markets are being played out in the cities: the skills mismatch between the young people emerging from urban school systems and high-paying jobs in the growth sectors of the economy; the spatial mismatch between unemployed workers in the inner cities and the new jobs being generated in the suburbs; and the social mismatch between employers unwilling to take risks in hiring and city youth who from a young age …
The Baby Boom and Trends in Poverty, 1967-1987
The theory of cohort competition developed by Easterlin suggests that individuals born during the baby boom are more likely to be poor than those born before or after them. This article investigates this claim by addressing two questions: Is there any effect of cohort on poverty, and, if so, does this effect follow the pattern predicted by Easterlies theory? A decomposition of poverty by age, period, cohort, and household type shows that among wh…
Explaining the Black-White Gap in Labor Force Participation among Women Heading Households
For the first time in this century, Black women are participating in the labor force at lower rates than are White women. The Black-White gap in female labor force participation is driven by those in the severest need of income-women heading households. I compare three explanations of the Black-White gap in labor force participation among female household heads-lack of human capital, lack of opportunities resulting from industrial restructuring, …
Social Isolation of the Urban Poor
We focus on the effects of race, class, and neighborhood on social isolation. Using data from households in Atlanta, Georgia, we compare poor and nonpoor African Americans to nonpoor whites on two types of social ties and the social resources inherent in those ties. We find that poverty has an important influence on the social resources available to African Americans in and outside of their household. Poor blacks are less likely than other blacks…
Opportunities Lost? Race, Industrial Restructuring, and Employment among Young Women Heading Households
Among young household heads, black women are employed at lower rates than white women, following a pattern found among young men. The current article investigates whether theories of industrial restructuring account for the lower employment rates among young black women heading households. In particular, I investigate whether processes involving deindustrialization, spatial mismatch, and skills mismatch lead to different employment outcomes for w…
Why Does Job Segregation Lead To Wage Inequality among African Americans? Person, Place, Sector, or Skills
The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market
This review investigates scholarship on the intersection of race and gender, with a particular focus on the U.S. labor market. We ask the following questions: What assumptions underlie intersectional perspectives in sociology? Is there any evidence to demonstrate that race and gender intersect in the labor market? We begin by discussing the core assumptions within Black and multiracial feminist theories, which represent the most fully articulated…
Race, Ethnicity, and Wage Inequality Among Women
This article examines trends in Black-White and Latina-White wage inequality among women from 1989 to 2003. Building on Bound and Dresser's conclusion that the Black-White earnings gap widened in the 1980s, the authors find that in the 1990s and early 21st century, the Black-White earnings differential remained fairly constant and that education plays a pivotal role in the Latina-White earnings gap. In every year, Latinas show larger wage differe…
Sexual Needs, Control, and Refusal
The poor are disproportionately affected by unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We know relatively little, however, about the sexual processes behind these disparities. Despite studies of gender enactment's influence on sexual behaviors, few analyses examine the sexual "doing" of social class. We conducted sexual history interviews with 36 women and men, half middle class and half poor and working class. Most responde…
"Juan Crow" in the Nuevo South
In this paper, we apply Omi and Winant's theory of racial formation to understand how a new racial category of "Latino" is being created within Atlanta, a city firmly entrenched in a Black/White binary of race. Comparing Dominicans and Guatemalans in the Atlanta metro area, we show how two processes are "racializing" Latinos: 1) the homogenization of Latinos into a single "race" through state laws and policies and 2) the diversified understanding…
Constructing citizenship
We show how conceptions of ‘market citizenship’ hold a central place in three distinct arenas: political theory; mainstream cultural narratives, and the views expressed by middle class Latino immigrants. Our analyses of both print media coverage and interviews with middle class Latino immigrants demonstrate that the narrative of market citizenship has heavily influenced the collective US understanding of state membership. This project not only fi…
Different Game, Different Frame
This article compares the discourse on immigration found in Atlanta's African-American press (Atlanta Daily World) to that found in Atlanta's mainstream press (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). The Daily World's black counterdiscourse situates immigration within a racial frame, discussing Latinos and immigrants interchangeably and casting African Americans as deserving yet excluded citizens. Immigrants appear in the Daily World as either allies in t…
Race Relations, Black Elites, and Immigration Politics
This paper investigates the question of whether and how race and race relations affect state legislators’ support for restrictive immigration policy. Focusing on the nine new immigration destinations in the US Southeast, we compare the roll call votes cast by African American and White Democratic state legislators on 196 restrictive immigration measures proposed between 2005 and 2012. Overall, the majority of Black Democratic legislators support …
Adoption Context, Parental Investment, and Children's Educational Outcomes
Adoptive parents invest more resources into their children than comparable nonadoptive and biological parents, a pattern strongly linked to parental socioeconomic status. But important differences among families related to adoption context (international, private, foster) could affect parental investment and its impact on educational outcomes. Using the National Survey of Children's Health, our findings indicate that parental investment strategie…
The best of both worlds
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press
Presumed Mexican Until Proven Otherwise
Non-Latino natives often conflate 'Latino' with 'Mexican,' treating Mexican as a stigmatized group. Latinos often engage in 'identity work' to neutralize this stigmatized identity. We link these micro processes of identity work with macro structures of stratification through 'intersectional typicality.' We argue that the selection of which positive traits immigrants highlight to avoid stigma is systematic and tied to intersecting dimensions of ra…
Immigration Coverage in the Black Press and the General Audience Press
This paper has two aims. First, we apply Bourdieu’s field theory to investigate media discourse on race and immigration, demonstrating how features of news organizations influence news content. Second, we compare contemporary natural language processing (NLP) techniques with qualitative hand-coding. Extending a previous study, we compare newspaper articles from the mainstream and black press in Atlanta. We find significant differences in both wor…
An intersectional burden
Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens
This paper investigates the question of whether and how restrictive immigration policies affect the earnings of Latinxs who are not the target of these policies-that is, Latinx citizens. Focusing on policies at the state (E-Verify) and county (287(g)) level, we investigate possible spillover on Latinx citizen earnings from 2006 through 2016. We use multiple sources of data, merging policy and census data with two national probability samples of L…
Race, State Surveillance, and Policy Spillover
This paper investigates whether restrictive immigration policy affects earnings among White, African-American, and Latinx US citizens. Incorporating sociological theories of race that point to state surveillance of Black and Latinx bodies as a linchpin of racial inequality, we ask: Do immigration policies that expand the reach of law enforcement spill over to lower or to raise earnings of employed US citizens? If so, are the effects of these poli…
Precarious Privilege
Precarious Privilege demonstrates how social class permeates all aspects of the racialization of illegality in Atlanta today, from the stigmatized image of the “typical Latino” as a working-class undocumented Mexican to the political and media elites that construct this image to the heritage belief systems, identities, and markers of prestige that middle-class Latino immigrants deploy to resist such stigmatization. As the intensifying state-spons…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Economics (10 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Race (biology) (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)