Marcelle M Medford
Biographic Data
| ID | 343646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelle M Medford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelle M |
| FAMILY NAME | Medford |
| SIGNATURE | MEDFORD M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bates College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6346-779X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to the Special Issue
As social science scholarship on Black children and youth continues to expand and explore their experiences, there still remains a need to investigate how families, communities, relationships, and social institutions impact their experiences. The theme for this special issue is inspired in part by our considerations of Black children's and youth's present realities and their futures. The editors of this volume are interested in creating space to …
Immigration ensnared
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth is a work of critical race and migration studies that traces the Caribbean diaspora in the US and Europe. Despite the divergent narratives of “model minorities” and “failing minorities” that emerge in the respective regions, logics of white supremacy bind groups on either side of the Atlantic to circumscribed expectations based on ethnicity. Thus, Wallace argues it is nec…
Jamaican cultural symbols as transethnic artifacts
This study demonstrates how black immigrants strategically deploy symbols of nationality within the context of black spaces to construct a politics of solidarity, rather than ethnic distance, with African Americans and other blacks. It draws from the ethnographic data of black craft vendors at a Caribbean festival and shows the way Jamaican cultural symbols become transethnic artifacts – racialized objects that could be adopted by black people fr…
Racialization and Black multiplicity
Black immigrants occupy a liminal space on the race ethnicity spectrum that defies traditional assimilation theories. The social distancing paradigm has emerged as one of the most influential theories to address this shortcoming in the field and explain the incorporation of Black immigrants. However, because this paradigm implicitly rests on an analogy to White immigrants, the articulation of Black ethnic options can often times be more derivativ…
Racialization and Black multiplicity
Black immigrants occupy a liminal space on the race ethnicity spectrum that defies traditional assimilation theories. The social distancing paradigm has emerged as one of the most influential theories to address this shortcoming in the field and explain the incorporation of Black immigrants. However, because this paradigm implicitly rests on an analogy to White immigrants, the articulation of Black ethnic options can often times be more derivativ…
Jamaican cultural symbols as transethnic artifacts
This study demonstrates how black immigrants strategically deploy symbols of nationality within the context of black spaces to construct a politics of solidarity, rather than ethnic distance, with African Americans and other blacks. It draws from the ethnographic data of black craft vendors at a Caribbean festival and shows the way Jamaican cultural symbols become transethnic artifacts – racialized objects that could be adopted by black people fr…
Racialization and Black multiplicity
Black immigrants occupy a liminal space on the race ethnicity spectrum that defies traditional assimilation theories. The social distancing paradigm has emerged as one of the most influential theories to address this shortcoming in the field and explain the incorporation of Black immigrants. However, because this paradigm implicitly rests on an analogy to White immigrants, the articulation of Black ethnic options can often times be more derivativ…
Jamaican cultural symbols as transethnic artifacts
This study demonstrates how black immigrants strategically deploy symbols of nationality within the context of black spaces to construct a politics of solidarity, rather than ethnic distance, with African Americans and other blacks. It draws from the ethnographic data of black craft vendors at a Caribbean festival and shows the way Jamaican cultural symbols become transethnic artifacts – racialized objects that could be adopted by black people fr…
Immigration ensnared
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth is a work of critical race and migration studies that traces the Caribbean diaspora in the US and Europe. Despite the divergent narratives of “model minorities” and “failing minorities” that emerge in the respective regions, logics of white supremacy bind groups on either side of the Atlantic to circumscribed expectations based on ethnicity. Thus, Wallace argues it is nec…
Introduction to the Special Issue
As social science scholarship on Black children and youth continues to expand and explore their experiences, there still remains a need to investigate how families, communities, relationships, and social institutions impact their experiences. The theme for this special issue is inspired in part by our considerations of Black children's and youth's present realities and their futures. The editors of this volume are interested in creating space to …
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Intersectionality (2 works) · Law (2 works)