Karen Brodkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Brodkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Brodkin |
| SIGNATURE | BRODKIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Politics of Egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Work, Race, and Economic Citizenship
This paper examines campaigns in two US social movements, an African American unionization struggle in the 1960s and 1970s, and a recent environmental justice campaign in a Latina/o community. These and the larger movements of which they are a part have been movements of the most economically precarious sectors of the population and have also been historically reliable sources of hope and inclusive regimes of economic and civic value. These regim…
Anthropology as White Public Space
How far has anthropology come in becoming racially inclusive? In this article, we analyze an online survey of anthropology graduate students and faculty of color undertaken by the AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology. Despite some progress, institutional and attitudinal barriers remain. We use the concept of "white public space" to analyze these barriers: departmental labor is divided in ways that assign to faculty and graduate stude…
Power politics
Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World
A Better World Is Possible? Anthropology and Social Movements
Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave (eds.) 2001. History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. Miranda Joseph 2002. Ag
Xenophobia, the state, and capitalism
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Labor studies scholars and union organizers agree that rank-and- file union drives are effective, even against union busters, anti- union consultants, and intransigent employers. This paper syn thesizes organizers' analyses of such campaigns in Los Angeles to explain why rank-and-file union drives work. We suggest that anti- union campaigns create fairly standard and locally hegemonic anti- union workplace cultures. We examine struggles between m…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State
The 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory is part of the cultural repertoire with which Jews in the U.S. con stitute themselves. Its telling has changed greatly in the last 50 years. Recent tellings suggest that it is performing identity work in the constitution of a progressive Jewishness, in rela tionship to issues of race and gender. In particular, by por traying Jewish women's identities in ways that emphasize social justice activism a…
Working Conference on the Anthropology of Los Angeles
"Comments on "Discourses of Whiteness
These articles give us a fine glimpse at how grand theories behave in daily life because they observe the dictum of good science and good art—they show us instead of just telling us. Together and singly, they illuminate two theoretical strands in current studies of whiteness (Allen 1994; Brodkin 1998; Crenshaw and Morrison 1992; Frankenberg 1993; Ignatiev 1995; Jacobson 1998; Morrison 1990; Roediger 1991). The first is the notion that whiteness i…
Once More into the Streets
Global Capitalism
This article addresses the relationship between nationalist projects of subject making and capitalist political economy. Using the United States as an illustrative case, I suggest that the capitalist project of labor-force creation articulates with nationalist projects in the ethnoracial construction of workers and national subjects. Taking the situations of U.S. Jews and women as my main window, I propose that anthropologists should think of rac…
How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America
Race, Class, and Gender
The Struggle for Justice
Women, Work, and Karl Marx
Ethnocentrism within Anthropology
Race and Gender in the construction of Class
How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America
Anthropology as White Public Space
How far has anthropology come in becoming racially inclusive? In this article, we analyze an online survey of anthropology graduate students and faculty of color undertaken by the AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology. Despite some progress, institutional and attitudinal barriers remain. We use the concept of "white public space" to analyze these barriers: departmental labor is divided in ways that assign to faculty and graduate stude…
Global Capitalism
This article addresses the relationship between nationalist projects of subject making and capitalist political economy. Using the United States as an illustrative case, I suggest that the capitalist project of labor-force creation articulates with nationalist projects in the ethnoracial construction of workers and national subjects. Taking the situations of U.S. Jews and women as my main window, I propose that anthropologists should think of rac…
Work, Race, and Economic Citizenship
This paper examines campaigns in two US social movements, an African American unionization struggle in the 1960s and 1970s, and a recent environmental justice campaign in a Latina/o community. These and the larger movements of which they are a part have been movements of the most economically precarious sectors of the population and have also been historically reliable sources of hope and inclusive regimes of economic and civic value. These regim…
"Comments on "Discourses of Whiteness
These articles give us a fine glimpse at how grand theories behave in daily life because they observe the dictum of good science and good art—they show us instead of just telling us. Together and singly, they illuminate two theoretical strands in current studies of whiteness (Allen 1994; Brodkin 1998; Crenshaw and Morrison 1992; Frankenberg 1993; Ignatiev 1995; Jacobson 1998; Morrison 1990; Roediger 1991). The first is the notion that whiteness i…
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Labor studies scholars and union organizers agree that rank-and- file union drives are effective, even against union busters, anti- union consultants, and intransigent employers. This paper syn thesizes organizers' analyses of such campaigns in Los Angeles to explain why rank-and-file union drives work. We suggest that anti- union campaigns create fairly standard and locally hegemonic anti- union workplace cultures. We examine struggles between m…
Xenophobia, the state, and capitalism
Women, Work, and Karl Marx
Race and Gender in the construction of Class
Ethnocentrism within Anthropology
How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America
Race, Class, and Gender
The Struggle for Justice
Women, Work, and Karl Marx
Once More into the Streets
Global Capitalism
This article addresses the relationship between nationalist projects of subject making and capitalist political economy. Using the United States as an illustrative case, I suggest that the capitalist project of labor-force creation articulates with nationalist projects in the ethnoracial construction of workers and national subjects. Taking the situations of U.S. Jews and women as my main window, I propose that anthropologists should think of rac…
"Comments on "Discourses of Whiteness
These articles give us a fine glimpse at how grand theories behave in daily life because they observe the dictum of good science and good art—they show us instead of just telling us. Together and singly, they illuminate two theoretical strands in current studies of whiteness (Allen 1994; Brodkin 1998; Crenshaw and Morrison 1992; Frankenberg 1993; Ignatiev 1995; Jacobson 1998; Morrison 1990; Roediger 1991). The first is the notion that whiteness i…
Working Conference on the Anthropology of Los Angeles
Society for the Anthropology of North America
On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State
The 1911 fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory is part of the cultural repertoire with which Jews in the U.S. con stitute themselves. Its telling has changed greatly in the last 50 years. Recent tellings suggest that it is performing identity work in the constitution of a progressive Jewishness, in rela tionship to issues of race and gender. In particular, by por traying Jewish women's identities in ways that emphasize social justice activism a…
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Labor studies scholars and union organizers agree that rank-and- file union drives are effective, even against union busters, anti- union consultants, and intransigent employers. This paper syn thesizes organizers' analyses of such campaigns in Los Angeles to explain why rank-and-file union drives work. We suggest that anti- union campaigns create fairly standard and locally hegemonic anti- union workplace cultures. We examine struggles between m…
A Better World Is Possible? Anthropology and Social Movements
Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave (eds.) 2001. History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. Miranda Joseph 2002. Ag
Xenophobia, the state, and capitalism
Power politics
Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World
Anthropology as White Public Space
How far has anthropology come in becoming racially inclusive? In this article, we analyze an online survey of anthropology graduate students and faculty of color undertaken by the AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology. Despite some progress, institutional and attitudinal barriers remain. We use the concept of "white public space" to analyze these barriers: departmental labor is divided in ways that assign to faculty and graduate stude…
Work, Race, and Economic Citizenship
This paper examines campaigns in two US social movements, an African American unionization struggle in the 1960s and 1970s, and a recent environmental justice campaign in a Latina/o community. These and the larger movements of which they are a part have been movements of the most economically precarious sectors of the population and have also been historically reliable sources of hope and inclusive regimes of economic and civic value. These regim…
The Politics of Egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Library science (8 works) · Citation (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)