John D Skrentny
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D Skrentny |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D |
| FAMILY NAME | Skrentny |
| SIGNATURE | SKRENTNY J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2729-9052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy
If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population. The way these newcomers are integrated into the state will shape California's schools, workforce, businesses, public health, politics, and culture. In Immigrant California , leading experts in U.S. migration provide cutting-edge research on the incorporation of immigrants and their descendants in this bellwether state. California, unique for its dive…
Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning
Studies of education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) commonly use a pipeline metaphor to conceptualize forward movement and persistence. However, the “STEM pipeline” carries implicit assumptions regarding length (i.e. that it “starts” and “stops” at specific stages in one’s education or career), contents (i.e. that some occupational fields are “in” the pipeline while others are not), and perceived purpose (i.e. th…
Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U. S. Policy
Theorizing Region: Links to Ethnicity, Nation, and Race
The concept of 'region' is widespread in the social sciences but rarely theorized. I argue here that region is a multivalent concept similar to ethnicity, nation, and race. Building on the work of Bourdieu, Brubaker, and Griswold, I show that all four concepts can be understood as both 'categories of analysis' and 'categories of practice.' Moreover, all four have fundamental similarities regarding (1) ontology and relation to space; (2) historica…
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Managing Race in the American Workplace 1 Chapter 2 Leverage Racial Realism in the Professions and Business 38 Chapter 3 We the People Racial Realism in Politics and Government 89 Chapter 4 Displaying Race for Dollars Racial Realism in Media and Entertainment 153 Chapter 5 The Jungle Revisited? Racial Realism in the Low-Skilled Sector 216 Chapter 6 Bringing Practice, Law, and Values Together 265 …
After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace
What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. This book contends that after decades of mass immigration, many employers, Democratic and Republican political leaders, and advocates have adopted a new strategy to manage race and work. Race is now …
Japan, the United States, and the Philosophical Bases of Immigration Policy
Immigration policy can be understood as variably conforming to three different philosophies: economic utilitarianism, which is geared toward maximizing wealth; rights liberalism, where policy creates legal protections of human dignity, including that of citizens and migrants alike; and communitarianism, where the preservation of the host state's national culture is paramount. The extent to which these philosophies guides policy depends on the pol…
Race Categorization and the Regulation of Business and Science
Despite the lack of consensus regarding the meaning or significance of race or ethnicity amongst scientists and the lay public, there are legal requirements and guidelines that dictate the collection of racial and ethnic data across a range of institutions. Legal regulations are typically created through a political process and then face varying kinds of resistance when the state tries to implement them. We explore the nature of this opposition b…
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
Elite Status and Social Change: Using Field Analysis to Explain Policy Formation and Implementation
Integrating an analysis of fields into studies of social change provides a better understanding of the outcomes achieved by challengers. We demonstrate the value of field analysis through a case study of a social change effort regarding urban land use. An organization led by wealthy and well-connected individuals pressed city government and a powerful for-profit developer to incorporate progressive social goals into a new urban development projec…
The Minority Rights Revolution
"Though protest and lobbying played a role in bringing about new laws and regulations - touching everything from wheelchair access to women's athletics to bilingual education - what Skrentny describes was not primarily a bottom-up story of radical confrontation. Rather, elites often led the way, and some of the most prominent advocates for expanding civil rights were conservative republicans who later emerged as these policies' most vociferous op…
Why is There So Little Migrant Settlement in East Asia
Unlike states in Europe, East Asia settles very few migrants and has not developed a European-style multicultural society. We seek to explain this variation using comparative analysis of two of the most advanced states in East Asia, South Korea and Japan, with several states in Europe. Focusing on family reunification - almost always the precursor to migrant settlement - we examine the effects of several independent variables, including supranati…
Ethnic return migration and hierarchical nationhood: Korean Chinese foreign workers in South Korea
Though nationhood is typically understood to be an equalizing or horizontal concept, the phenomenon of ethnic return migration has shown that states as well as societies can draw hierarchical distinctions between persons of the same ancestry. We demonstrate two dimensions — legal and social — of this `hierarchical nationhood' by analysing the South Korean policy and citizen attitudes regarding Joseonjok, or ethnic Korean Chinese citizens moving t…
The White Ethnic Strategy
Culture and Race/Ethnicity: Bolder, Deeper, and Broader
The role of cultural analysis in the sociology of race, ethnicity, and immigration varies across subject matter. Primarily for political reasons, it has been marginalized in the study of ethnic/racial inequality, though new work is reclaiming culture in this important context. It has an unacknowledged presence in studies of discrimination and domination, but is explicit in macro and historical studies. This article surveys these subfields and mak…
Defining Nations in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Return Migration Policy
We argue that regional comparison of East Asian and European ethnic return migration policy offers important new perspectives on nationhood, nondiscrimination norms, and trans-nationality. We find that despite international nondiscrimination norms, preferential ethnic return policy is common in both regions. These policies at least implicitly define the nation as existing across borders. However, there are significant regional differences. East A…
The Benefits of Comparison: New Challenges to Ethnicity and Immigration Research
Are America's Civil Rights Laws Still Relevant
The federal government created America's historic 1964 Civil Rights Act during a period of low immigration. The primary goal was to create equal opportunities for African Americans by ending Jim Crow discrimination in the South. Focusing on the issue of employment discrimination, and specifically employer preferences for immigrants, this article shows how the current period of high immigration from Latin America and Asia has created new challenge…
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Journal Article Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace Get access Maclean Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 454 pp. $35.00 (cloth). John D. Skrentny John D. Skrentny University of California-San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, V…
Policy‐Elite Perceptions and Social Movement Success: Understanding Variations in Group Inclusion in Affirmative Action
Using historical analysis of the inclusiveness of Labor Department affirmative action regulations for African‐Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, and white ethnics, this article shows that understanding variations in social movement success requires understanding policy‐elite perceptions of the meanings of social movements and the groups they represent. Variation in perceived meanings along dimensions of definition, mora…
Law and the American State
Although classical theories of the state and key texts of historical institutionalism and American political development (APD) defined the American state as a fundamentally legal entity, contemporary studies of the American state show a range of roles for law and courts, from no role at all, to a constraint or obstacle, to a positive force for state development. This review maps these varying roles, showing that law and courts are most absent or …
Policy Making Is Decision Making: A Response to Hattam
How should we explain politics and policymaking in one of the most tumultuous and active periods in the history of the American state? Victoria Hattam and I approach the same topic from different starting points and with different goals. While she argues for attention to grass roots mobilization, I look to the policymaking process. I believe the study of policy change should begin at the center of power, where policy decision-making takes place, …
Heather Ann Thompson — Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America
The Minority Rights Revolution
Ethnic return migration and hierarchical nationhood: Korean Chinese foreign workers in South Korea
Though nationhood is typically understood to be an equalizing or horizontal concept, the phenomenon of ethnic return migration has shown that states as well as societies can draw hierarchical distinctions between persons of the same ancestry. We demonstrate two dimensions — legal and social — of this `hierarchical nationhood' by analysing the South Korean policy and citizen attitudes regarding Joseonjok, or ethnic Korean Chinese citizens moving t…
Defining Nations in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Return Migration Policy
We argue that regional comparison of East Asian and European ethnic return migration policy offers important new perspectives on nationhood, nondiscrimination norms, and trans-nationality. We find that despite international nondiscrimination norms, preferential ethnic return policy is common in both regions. These policies at least implicitly define the nation as existing across borders. However, there are significant regional differences. East A…
Policy‐Elite Perceptions and Social Movement Success: Understanding Variations in Group Inclusion in Affirmative Action
Using historical analysis of the inclusiveness of Labor Department affirmative action regulations for African‐Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, and white ethnics, this article shows that understanding variations in social movement success requires understanding policy‐elite perceptions of the meanings of social movements and the groups they represent. Variation in perceived meanings along dimensions of definition, mora…
Culture and Race/Ethnicity: Bolder, Deeper, and Broader
The role of cultural analysis in the sociology of race, ethnicity, and immigration varies across subject matter. Primarily for political reasons, it has been marginalized in the study of ethnic/racial inequality, though new work is reclaiming culture in this important context. It has an unacknowledged presence in studies of discrimination and domination, but is explicit in macro and historical studies. This article surveys these subfields and mak…
Why is There So Little Migrant Settlement in East Asia
Unlike states in Europe, East Asia settles very few migrants and has not developed a European-style multicultural society. We seek to explain this variation using comparative analysis of two of the most advanced states in East Asia, South Korea and Japan, with several states in Europe. Focusing on family reunification - almost always the precursor to migrant settlement - we examine the effects of several independent variables, including supranati…
Law and the American State
Although classical theories of the state and key texts of historical institutionalism and American political development (APD) defined the American state as a fundamentally legal entity, contemporary studies of the American state show a range of roles for law and courts, from no role at all, to a constraint or obstacle, to a positive force for state development. This review maps these varying roles, showing that law and courts are most absent or …
The effect of the Cold War on African-American civil rights: America and the world audience, 1945-1968
Elite Status and Social Change: Using Field Analysis to Explain Policy Formation and Implementation
Integrating an analysis of fields into studies of social change provides a better understanding of the outcomes achieved by challengers. We demonstrate the value of field analysis through a case study of a social change effort regarding urban land use. An organization led by wealthy and well-connected individuals pressed city government and a powerful for-profit developer to incorporate progressive social goals into a new urban development projec…
Coalition-Building and the Politics of Electoral Capture During the Nixon Administration: African Americans, Labor, Latinos
In November of 1968, Richard Nixon became only the second Republican in four decades to win control of the Executive Office. For helpful comments, we would like to thank Shana Bass, Michael Brown, Scott James, David Mayhew, Corey Robin, Joel Silbey, Pam Singh, Stephen Skowronek, Tom Sugrue, Rick Valelly, and the anonymous reviewers for Studies in American Political Development. Unlike the administration of his party's predecessor, Dwight Eisenhow…
Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform
Journal Article Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform Get access Robin H. Rogers-Dillon, Robin H. Rogers-Dillon 1Yale University **Direct correspondence to Robin H. Rogers-Dillon, P.O. Box 208207, 89 Trumbull Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8207. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar John David Skrentny John Davi…
Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning
Studies of education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) commonly use a pipeline metaphor to conceptualize forward movement and persistence. However, the “STEM pipeline” carries implicit assumptions regarding length (i.e. that it “starts” and “stops” at specific stages in one’s education or career), contents (i.e. that some occupational fields are “in” the pipeline while others are not), and perceived purpose (i.e. th…
Theorizing Region: Links to Ethnicity, Nation, and Race
The concept of 'region' is widespread in the social sciences but rarely theorized. I argue here that region is a multivalent concept similar to ethnicity, nation, and race. Building on the work of Bourdieu, Brubaker, and Griswold, I show that all four concepts can be understood as both 'categories of analysis' and 'categories of practice.' Moreover, all four have fundamental similarities regarding (1) ontology and relation to space; (2) historica…
Are America's Civil Rights Laws Still Relevant
The federal government created America's historic 1964 Civil Rights Act during a period of low immigration. The primary goal was to create equal opportunities for African Americans by ending Jim Crow discrimination in the South. Focusing on the issue of employment discrimination, and specifically employer preferences for immigrants, this article shows how the current period of high immigration from Latin America and Asia has created new challenge…
Race Categorization and the Regulation of Business and Science
Despite the lack of consensus regarding the meaning or significance of race or ethnicity amongst scientists and the lay public, there are legal requirements and guidelines that dictate the collection of racial and ethnic data across a range of institutions. Legal regulations are typically created through a political process and then face varying kinds of resistance when the state tries to implement them. We explore the nature of this opposition b…
Concern for the Environment: A Cross-National Perspective
Journal Article CONCERN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Get access John D. Skrentny John D. Skrentny Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, WINTER 1993, Pages 335–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/5.4.335 Published: 01 December 1993
Japan, the United States, and the Philosophical Bases of Immigration Policy
Immigration policy can be understood as variably conforming to three different philosophies: economic utilitarianism, which is geared toward maximizing wealth; rights liberalism, where policy creates legal protections of human dignity, including that of citizens and migrants alike; and communitarianism, where the preservation of the host state's national culture is paramount. The extent to which these philosophies guides policy depends on the pol…
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
The Benefits of Comparison: New Challenges to Ethnicity and Immigration Research
Books in review
Pragmatism, institutionalism, and the construction of employment discrimination
Concern for the Environment: A Cross-National Perspective
Journal Article CONCERN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Get access John D. Skrentny John D. Skrentny Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 5, Issue 4, WINTER 1993, Pages 335–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/5.4.335 Published: 01 December 1993
Pragmatism, institutionalism, and the construction of employment discrimination
The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America
Preface 1: The Ironies of Affirmative Action 2: The Appeal of Color-Blindness 3: American Justice, Acceptable Preference, and the Boundaries of Legitimate Policymaking 4: Crisis Management through Affirmative Action 5: Administrative Pragmatism and the Affirmative Action Solution 6: Affirmative Action as Tradition 7: Creative Destruction in the Nixon Administration 8: Conclusion: Culture, Politics and Affirmative Action Notes
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy
The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America
Coalition-Building and the Politics of Electoral Capture During the Nixon Administration: African Americans, Labor, Latinos
In November of 1968, Richard Nixon became only the second Republican in four decades to win control of the Executive Office. For helpful comments, we would like to thank Shana Bass, Michael Brown, Scott James, David Mayhew, Corey Robin, Joel Silbey, Pam Singh, Stephen Skowronek, Tom Sugrue, Rick Valelly, and the anonymous reviewers for Studies in American Political Development. Unlike the administration of his party's predecessor, Dwight Eisenhow…
The Politics of Preference: Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India
In Defense of Affirmative Action
From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972
The effect of the Cold War on African-American civil rights: America and the world audience, 1945-1968
The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America
Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform
Journal Article Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform Get access Robin H. Rogers-Dillon, Robin H. Rogers-Dillon 1Yale University **Direct correspondence to Robin H. Rogers-Dillon, P.O. Box 208207, 89 Trumbull Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8207. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar John David Skrentny John Davi…
Books in review
Heather Ann Thompson — Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America
The Minority Rights Revolution
Égalité devant l'emploi aux USA: Une Politique Frileuse Et Incohérente
Contrairement aux idées reçues, aux États-Unis, la politique de lutte contre la discrimination à l'emploi "aveugle à la couleur" est plus consensuelle que celle dite "consciente de la couleur", plus connue sous le nom d'Affirmative action. L'auteur met ici expressément en garde les Français contre les pièges et incohérences de la politique dite de "discrimination positive". Pour autant, il lui apparaît tout aussi incohérent de ne pas du tout pren…
Policy Making Is Decision Making: A Response to Hattam
How should we explain politics and policymaking in one of the most tumultuous and active periods in the history of the American state? Victoria Hattam and I approach the same topic from different starting points and with different goals. While she argues for attention to grass roots mobilization, I look to the policymaking process. I believe the study of policy change should begin at the center of power, where policy decision-making takes place, …
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Journal Article Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace Get access Maclean Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii, 454 pp. $35.00 (cloth). John D. Skrentny John D. Skrentny University of California-San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, V…
Policy‐Elite Perceptions and Social Movement Success: Understanding Variations in Group Inclusion in Affirmative Action
Using historical analysis of the inclusiveness of Labor Department affirmative action regulations for African‐Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, and white ethnics, this article shows that understanding variations in social movement success requires understanding policy‐elite perceptions of the meanings of social movements and the groups they represent. Variation in perceived meanings along dimensions of definition, mora…
Law and the American State
Although classical theories of the state and key texts of historical institutionalism and American political development (APD) defined the American state as a fundamentally legal entity, contemporary studies of the American state show a range of roles for law and courts, from no role at all, to a constraint or obstacle, to a positive force for state development. This review maps these varying roles, showing that law and courts are most absent or …
Defining Nations in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Return Migration Policy
We argue that regional comparison of East Asian and European ethnic return migration policy offers important new perspectives on nationhood, nondiscrimination norms, and trans-nationality. We find that despite international nondiscrimination norms, preferential ethnic return policy is common in both regions. These policies at least implicitly define the nation as existing across borders. However, there are significant regional differences. East A…
The Benefits of Comparison: New Challenges to Ethnicity and Immigration Research
Are America's Civil Rights Laws Still Relevant
The federal government created America's historic 1964 Civil Rights Act during a period of low immigration. The primary goal was to create equal opportunities for African Americans by ending Jim Crow discrimination in the South. Focusing on the issue of employment discrimination, and specifically employer preferences for immigrants, this article shows how the current period of high immigration from Latin America and Asia has created new challenge…
The White Ethnic Strategy
Political science (35 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Law (25 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Economics (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · Affirmative action (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works)