Sarah Horton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Horton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Horton |
| SIGNATURE | HORTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology; University of Colorado Denver; Campus Box 103, P.O. Box 173364 Denver CO 80217-3364 |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6544-1833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 290 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
La limitada mala fe de la persona auténtica. Una perspectiva sartreana
Basándome en la explicación que hace Jean-Paul Sartre de la violencia, sostengo que no solo la mala fe es inevitable en la práctica, sino que una mala fe limitada es necesaria para la autenticidad. Aunque violar la libertad de otros es mala fe, es imposible no violar nunca la libertad de alguien. Además, y de manera fundamental, la estructura ontológica del para-sí implica que este solo puede ser auténtico en el modo de no ser auténtico. Tratar d…
The Look as a Call to Freedom
While the traditional understanding of the look views it in terms of shame and oppression, I read Sartre’s Notebooks for an Ethics with Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity to argue that the look always gives me the world and inaugurates my freedom. Even the oppressor’s look reveals that I am free and that my existence is conditioned by the existence of other free beings. Because the look gives me the world as the arena within which I act freely, it is…
When the Face Becomes a Carrier
In the midst of a pandemic, what does it mean to see the Other as Other and not as a carrier of the virus? I argue that in seeking a Levinasian response to the pandemic, we must be mindful of the implications of the mechanisms of surveillance and control that, presented as ways to protect the Other, operate by controlling the Other and rendering our relation to the Other increasingly impersonal. Subjected to these mechanisms, the Other becomes a …
Explaining Lead Poisoning among Refugee Children
United States children living in poorly maintained housing built before 1978 are at particular risk of lead poisoning, which harms their physical and cognitive development. Studies have shown that although refugee children may have been exposed to lead in their homelands, some experienced increased blood lead (BPb) levels after their resettlement in the United States. This study provides an insider's account of the resettlement process from the p…
Immigrant Communities and the Public Charge Rule
Anthropology in Unseen Spaces
Accessibility for business and pleasure
This forum is dedicated to maximizing the success of HCI practitioners within the frenetic world of product and service design. It focuses on UX strategy approaches, leadership, management techniques, and above all the challenge of bringing HCI to peer-level status with longstanding business disciplines such as marketing and engineering. --- Daniel Rosenberg, Editor
Identity loan
Medical returns
Stigmatized Biologies
Severe early childhood caries (ECC) can leave lasting effects on children's physical development, including malformed oral arches and crooked permanent dentition. This article examines the way that the ECC of Mexican American farmworker children in the United States sets them up for lasting dental problems and social stigma as young adults. We examine the role of dietary and environmental factors in contributing to what we call "stigmatized biolo…
"Stains" on their self-discipline
Histories of the role of public health in nation building have revealed the centrality of hygiene to eugenic mechanisms of racial exclusion in the turn-of-the-20th-century United States, yet little scholarship has examined its role in the present day. Through ethnography in a Mexican migrant farmworking community in California's Central Valley, we explore the role of oral hygiene campaigns in racializing Mexican immigrant parents and shaping the …
A Mother’s Heart is Weighed Down with Stones
Rural Latino Immigrant Caregivers' Conceptions of Their Children's Oral Disease
Conceptions of oral disease derived from the caregivers' own dental experiences, their conceptions of the body, and interactions with dental professionals. The fact that biomedical explanations dominate the list of causes of caries for both groups indicates that the caregivers' explanatory models of oral disease are powerfully shaped by interactions with health professionals. Immigrant caregivers' mistaking of the baby bottle's nipple as the sour…
Consuming Childhood
Consuming Childhood:"Lost" and "Ideal" Childhoods as a Motivation for Migration Sarah Horton In the introduction to her well-known edited volume, Children and the Politics of Culture, published in 1995, Sharon Stephens argued that fears of a "crisis" in childhood emerged in the 1970s and 1980s with a new, and more penetrating, phase of global capitalism. Media images suddenly brought affluent Westerners-who subscribed to an ideal of childhood as …
Toward an Ethnography of the Uninsured
Gay Becker's following article on the uninsured, submitted to Medical Anthropology before her untimely death in January 2007, was innovative in placing the issue of the uninsured squarely at the heart of her analysis of the U.S. health care system. Becker's novel contribution lay in examining the lack of universal health care in the U.S. as a mode of governance that produced certain subjects--subjects whom the system trained to view themselves as…
A Call to an Anthropology of Health Policy
The double burden on safety net providers
El tratamiento diferencial de los inmigrantes cubanos y mexicanos en el sistema de salud pública de Estados Unidos
Se examina la participación del sistema de salud pública de Estados Unidos en una construcción social más amplia, de los inmigrantes cubanos como dignos y de los mexicanos como indignos de los beneficios de la salud pública. Se muestra que la privatización acrecentó la preocupación sobre qué grupos sociales son "dignos" de los beneficios públicos. En particular, se expone la adopción por parte de Nuevo México de un sistema de salud privado para s…
Different Subjects
This paper explores the public health system's differential construction of Mexican and Cuban immigrants' "deservingness" of citizenship benefits and its preparation of them for different roles in U.S. society. Civic institutions such as the public health care system are charged with inculcating normative behavior in immigrants and instilling in them different conceptions about their rights and responsibilities. Faced with limited resources under…
The Spanish Redemption
Where Is the "Mexican" in "New Mexican"? Enacting History, Enacting Dominance in the Santa Fe Fiesta
What are the implications of public commemorations of the Southwest's Spanish colonization, and do such celebrations sanction the conquest's continuing legacy of racial inequality? This paper examines such questions by way of an analysis of the Santa Fe Fiesta, an annual celebration of New Mexico's 1692 re-conquest from the Pueblo Indians by Spanish General Don Diego de Vargas. The Santa Fe Fiesta, which uses living actors to publicly re-enact th…
Transforming the Safety Net
In this article we examine the impact of Medicaid managed care on safety net organizations in New Mexico and their ability to maintain their traditional mission of charity care. We address two particular areas of concern that have arisen in the literature on Medicaid managed care. First, analysts have debated under what circumstances safety net organizations are better positioned to survive under market competition without abandoning their social…
Maintaining Hispano Identity Through the Santa Fe Fiesta
This article focuses on the struggle between outside commercial interests and Hispano insiders to determine the significance and purpose of an annual community celebration, the Santa Fe Fiesta. In the hands of Anglo boosters, the first fiesta of 1919 appropriated Southwestern cultures to lure Anglo settlers and tourists to a developing new state. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, Hispanos have gradually re-appropriated the event …
Different Subjects
This paper explores the public health system's differential construction of Mexican and Cuban immigrants' "deservingness" of citizenship benefits and its preparation of them for different roles in U.S. society. Civic institutions such as the public health care system are charged with inculcating normative behavior in immigrants and instilling in them different conceptions about their rights and responsibilities. Faced with limited resources under…
Medical returns
"Stains" on their self-discipline
Histories of the role of public health in nation building have revealed the centrality of hygiene to eugenic mechanisms of racial exclusion in the turn-of-the-20th-century United States, yet little scholarship has examined its role in the present day. Through ethnography in a Mexican migrant farmworking community in California's Central Valley, we explore the role of oral hygiene campaigns in racializing Mexican immigrant parents and shaping the …
The double burden on safety net providers
Stigmatized Biologies
Severe early childhood caries (ECC) can leave lasting effects on children's physical development, including malformed oral arches and crooked permanent dentition. This article examines the way that the ECC of Mexican American farmworker children in the United States sets them up for lasting dental problems and social stigma as young adults. We examine the role of dietary and environmental factors in contributing to what we call "stigmatized biolo…
Transforming the Safety Net
In this article we examine the impact of Medicaid managed care on safety net organizations in New Mexico and their ability to maintain their traditional mission of charity care. We address two particular areas of concern that have arisen in the literature on Medicaid managed care. First, analysts have debated under what circumstances safety net organizations are better positioned to survive under market competition without abandoning their social…
Identity loan
Consuming Childhood
Consuming Childhood:"Lost" and "Ideal" Childhoods as a Motivation for Migration Sarah Horton In the introduction to her well-known edited volume, Children and the Politics of Culture, published in 1995, Sharon Stephens argued that fears of a "crisis" in childhood emerged in the 1970s and 1980s with a new, and more penetrating, phase of global capitalism. Media images suddenly brought affluent Westerners-who subscribed to an ideal of childhood as …
A Call to an Anthropology of Health Policy
Toward an Ethnography of the Uninsured
Gay Becker's following article on the uninsured, submitted to Medical Anthropology before her untimely death in January 2007, was innovative in placing the issue of the uninsured squarely at the heart of her analysis of the U.S. health care system. Becker's novel contribution lay in examining the lack of universal health care in the U.S. as a mode of governance that produced certain subjects--subjects whom the system trained to view themselves as…
Maintaining Hispano Identity Through the Santa Fe Fiesta
This article focuses on the struggle between outside commercial interests and Hispano insiders to determine the significance and purpose of an annual community celebration, the Santa Fe Fiesta. In the hands of Anglo boosters, the first fiesta of 1919 appropriated Southwestern cultures to lure Anglo settlers and tourists to a developing new state. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, Hispanos have gradually re-appropriated the event …
Maintaining Hispano Identity Through the Santa Fe Fiesta
This article focuses on the struggle between outside commercial interests and Hispano insiders to determine the significance and purpose of an annual community celebration, the Santa Fe Fiesta. In the hands of Anglo boosters, the first fiesta of 1919 appropriated Southwestern cultures to lure Anglo settlers and tourists to a developing new state. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, Hispanos have gradually re-appropriated the event …
Where Is the "Mexican" in "New Mexican"? Enacting History, Enacting Dominance in the Santa Fe Fiesta
What are the implications of public commemorations of the Southwest's Spanish colonization, and do such celebrations sanction the conquest's continuing legacy of racial inequality? This paper examines such questions by way of an analysis of the Santa Fe Fiesta, an annual celebration of New Mexico's 1692 re-conquest from the Pueblo Indians by Spanish General Don Diego de Vargas. The Santa Fe Fiesta, which uses living actors to publicly re-enact th…
Transforming the Safety Net
In this article we examine the impact of Medicaid managed care on safety net organizations in New Mexico and their ability to maintain their traditional mission of charity care. We address two particular areas of concern that have arisen in the literature on Medicaid managed care. First, analysts have debated under what circumstances safety net organizations are better positioned to survive under market competition without abandoning their social…
The Spanish Redemption
Different Subjects
This paper explores the public health system's differential construction of Mexican and Cuban immigrants' "deservingness" of citizenship benefits and its preparation of them for different roles in U.S. society. Civic institutions such as the public health care system are charged with inculcating normative behavior in immigrants and instilling in them different conceptions about their rights and responsibilities. Faced with limited resources under…
El tratamiento diferencial de los inmigrantes cubanos y mexicanos en el sistema de salud pública de Estados Unidos
Se examina la participación del sistema de salud pública de Estados Unidos en una construcción social más amplia, de los inmigrantes cubanos como dignos y de los mexicanos como indignos de los beneficios de la salud pública. Se muestra que la privatización acrecentó la preocupación sobre qué grupos sociales son "dignos" de los beneficios públicos. En particular, se expone la adopción por parte de Nuevo México de un sistema de salud privado para s…
A Call to an Anthropology of Health Policy
The double burden on safety net providers
Toward an Ethnography of the Uninsured
Gay Becker's following article on the uninsured, submitted to Medical Anthropology before her untimely death in January 2007, was innovative in placing the issue of the uninsured squarely at the heart of her analysis of the U.S. health care system. Becker's novel contribution lay in examining the lack of universal health care in the U.S. as a mode of governance that produced certain subjects--subjects whom the system trained to view themselves as…
A Mother’s Heart is Weighed Down with Stones
Rural Latino Immigrant Caregivers' Conceptions of Their Children's Oral Disease
Conceptions of oral disease derived from the caregivers' own dental experiences, their conceptions of the body, and interactions with dental professionals. The fact that biomedical explanations dominate the list of causes of caries for both groups indicates that the caregivers' explanatory models of oral disease are powerfully shaped by interactions with health professionals. Immigrant caregivers' mistaking of the baby bottle's nipple as the sour…
Consuming Childhood
Consuming Childhood:"Lost" and "Ideal" Childhoods as a Motivation for Migration Sarah Horton In the introduction to her well-known edited volume, Children and the Politics of Culture, published in 1995, Sharon Stephens argued that fears of a "crisis" in childhood emerged in the 1970s and 1980s with a new, and more penetrating, phase of global capitalism. Media images suddenly brought affluent Westerners-who subscribed to an ideal of childhood as …
"Stains" on their self-discipline
Histories of the role of public health in nation building have revealed the centrality of hygiene to eugenic mechanisms of racial exclusion in the turn-of-the-20th-century United States, yet little scholarship has examined its role in the present day. Through ethnography in a Mexican migrant farmworking community in California's Central Valley, we explore the role of oral hygiene campaigns in racializing Mexican immigrant parents and shaping the …
Stigmatized Biologies
Severe early childhood caries (ECC) can leave lasting effects on children's physical development, including malformed oral arches and crooked permanent dentition. This article examines the way that the ECC of Mexican American farmworker children in the United States sets them up for lasting dental problems and social stigma as young adults. We examine the role of dietary and environmental factors in contributing to what we call "stigmatized biolo…
Medical returns
Accessibility for business and pleasure
This forum is dedicated to maximizing the success of HCI practitioners within the frenetic world of product and service design. It focuses on UX strategy approaches, leadership, management techniques, and above all the challenge of bringing HCI to peer-level status with longstanding business disciplines such as marketing and engineering. --- Daniel Rosenberg, Editor
Identity loan
Anthropology in Unseen Spaces
Explaining Lead Poisoning among Refugee Children
United States children living in poorly maintained housing built before 1978 are at particular risk of lead poisoning, which harms their physical and cognitive development. Studies have shown that although refugee children may have been exposed to lead in their homelands, some experienced increased blood lead (BPb) levels after their resettlement in the United States. This study provides an insider's account of the resettlement process from the p…
Immigrant Communities and the Public Charge Rule
When the Face Becomes a Carrier
In the midst of a pandemic, what does it mean to see the Other as Other and not as a carrier of the virus? I argue that in seeking a Levinasian response to the pandemic, we must be mindful of the implications of the mechanisms of surveillance and control that, presented as ways to protect the Other, operate by controlling the Other and rendering our relation to the Other increasingly impersonal. Subjected to these mechanisms, the Other becomes a …
The Look as a Call to Freedom
While the traditional understanding of the look views it in terms of shame and oppression, I read Sartre’s Notebooks for an Ethics with Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity to argue that the look always gives me the world and inaugurates my freedom. Even the oppressor’s look reveals that I am free and that my existence is conditioned by the existence of other free beings. Because the look gives me the world as the arena within which I act freely, it is…
La limitada mala fe de la persona auténtica. Una perspectiva sartreana
Basándome en la explicación que hace Jean-Paul Sartre de la violencia, sostengo que no solo la mala fe es inevitable en la práctica, sino que una mala fe limitada es necesaria para la autenticidad. Aunque violar la libertad de otros es mala fe, es imposible no violar nunca la libertad de alguien. Además, y de manera fundamental, la estructura ontológica del para-sí implica que este solo puede ser auténtico en el modo de no ser auténtico. Tratar d…
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