Mary Romero
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Romero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9866-8193 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 411 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rethinking Our Sociological Imaginations Through the Global South: Lessons From the Colonized
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
Election Reflections—and What Comes Next
A curated collection of essays tracking the pulse of American democracy as the second Trump Administration comes into power, this special section considers the campaigns that were waged and previews the battles yet to come
Research Handbook on Intersectionality
China's borderlands in the post-globalization era
Passing and Rebelling
Being the Maid’s Daughter
Epilogue
Making a Home
Who Is Caring for the Maid’s Children?
Becoming the Maid’s Daughter
Leaving “Home”
Sociology Engaged in Social Justice
This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association's vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In t…
Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
Reflections on Globalized Care Chains and Migrant Women Workers
An analysis of the international division of reproductive labor is incomplete without acknowledging the proliferation of state regulations in migrant-receiving countries, which result in restricting workers' ability to maintain their own families and to exercise their full range of labor rights. An overview of trends in nations fueling the need for domestic workers and caregivers includes the social conditions for migrants increasingly fill this …
Reflections on 'The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative: The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments
I joined the American Sociological Association (ASA) in the late 1970s; since then there have been only a few events bringing members together to reflect on race relations, systemic racism, and the inclusion of race in curricula. The town hall meeting at the 2016 ASA Annual Meetings in Seattle, Washington, was one of the significant moments when we turned our sociological imagination on ourselves. This is a time to lift the veils, to make visible…
Maid in the USA: 10Th Anniversary Edition
Conceptualizing the Foundation of Inequalities in Care Work
Over the past decade, social science researchers in the area of feminism, labor, immigration, and family have written extensively on the care work crisis and globalized care work. Depending on how broadly care work is conceived, these writings emphasize unique aspects of gender, race, class, and/or citizenship inequalities. Second wave of feminist perspectives, for instance, identify housework and most work culturally defined as "women's work"-in…
Introduction to the special issue: Intersectionality and Entrepreneurship
We briefly review the ethnic entrepreneurship paradigm, identifying the problems associated with an approach that emphasizes the salience of one social group, ethnicity, to the exclusion or downplaying of others, such as race, class, and gender. We introduce an intersectional approach to the study of (ethnic) enterprise, reviewing the literature and using the articles in this special issue to demonstrate the utility of this perspective. We close …
Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender
Teresa&s;s narrative contains descriptive accounts of negotiating boundaries in the \nemployers&s; homes and in their community. As the maid&s;s daughter, the old adage "Just like \none of the family" is a reality, and Teresa has to learn when she must act like the employer&s;s child and when she must assume the appropriate behavior as the maid&s;s daughter. She \nhas to recognize all the social cues and interpret social settings correctly-when t…
Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
Nanny Diaries and Other Stories: Immigrant Women’s Labor in the Social Reproduction of American Families
Two former nannies employed on the Upper East Side of Manhattan offer this want ad as an illustration of employers’ expectations and working conditions awaiting potential employees. Although it is a fictionalized account of their total six-year experience as nannies while attending college, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’ The Nanny Diaries, A Novel has spurred significant attention from the media. Editorials, letters to the editor, book reviews…
Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America
The New Maids, Transnational Women and the Care Economy
Helma Lutz (translated by Deborah Shannon), THE NEW MAIDS, TRANSNATIONAL WOMEN AND THE CARE ECONOMY, London: Zed Books, 2011, viii +241 pp., $34.95 (paper) Using empirical research from interviews
The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream
2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas CollegeSelected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesThis is Olivia’s story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until the age of three. Olivia then returns to L.A. to live with her mother, Carmen, the live-in maid to a wea…
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India by Raka Ray and Seemin Quyum
The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative: The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments
In this article, Eric Margolis and Mary Romero examine the effect of the "hidden curriculum" on women of color graduate students in sociology. They interview twenty-six women of color enrolled in Ph.D. programs in sociology to uncover how the graduate school curriculum not only produces professional sociologists, but also simultaneously reproduces gender, race, class, and other forms of inequality. In their analysis, Margolis and Romero identify …
Racial Profiling and Immigration Law Enforcement: Rounding Up of Usual Suspects in the Latino Community
Critical race theorists have applied the concepts of micro-aggressions and macro-aggressions to characterize the racial affronts minorities encounter in the criminal justice system, particularly in the War on Drugs and in the use of racial profiling. Building on LatCrit and critical race scholars, I analyze the function that immigration raids serve as a policing practice that maintains and reinforces subordinated status among working-class Latino…
Sociology Engaged in Social Justice
This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association's vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In t…
Introduction to the special issue: Intersectionality and Entrepreneurship
We briefly review the ethnic entrepreneurship paradigm, identifying the problems associated with an approach that emphasizes the salience of one social group, ethnicity, to the exclusion or downplaying of others, such as race, class, and gender. We introduce an intersectional approach to the study of (ethnic) enterprise, reviewing the literature and using the articles in this special issue to demonstrate the utility of this perspective. We close …
Reclaiming the Gift: Indigenous Youth Counter-Narratives on Native Language Loss and Revitalization
In the beginning . . . Elder Brother and Younger Brother were instructed through visions by the breath-giver to teach . . . the newly created people [how] to live. All the instructions were in the native language. The people lived happily for many years. . . . Something bad happened and there was a battle among the peaceful people. The head chief then commanded that there would be many languages. . . . The people migrated and divided into differe…
Chicanas modernize domestic service
Indigenous Epistemologies and Education-Self-Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights
Critical Race Theory in the US Sociology of Immigration
This article reviews the recent literature that has incorporated critical race theory to study migration. It includes a survey of the uses, approaches, and contributions of critical race theory in the field of migration. Immigration studies have historically/traditionally focused on demographic aspects of population movements, leaving virtually outside of its analysis social processes at the core of migration, like the social construction of race…
Ethno-Racial Profiling and State Violence in a Southwest Barrio
This study, carried out in a barrio neighborhood near the U.S.-Mexican border, uses a structural violence perspective to understand the extent of and individual determinants of mistreatment of residents by immigration authorities. Results indicate that barrio residents are more likely than the U.S. population in general to experience mistreatment at the hands of state authorities. Multivariate analyses indicate that authorities dole out mistreatm…
The New Maids, Transnational Women and the Care Economy
Helma Lutz (translated by Deborah Shannon), THE NEW MAIDS, TRANSNATIONAL WOMEN AND THE CARE ECONOMY, London: Zed Books, 2011, viii +241 pp., $34.95 (paper) Using empirical research from interviews
A comparison between strategies used on prisoners of war and battered wives
Sisterhood and Domestic Service: Race, Class and Gender in the Mistress-Maid Relationship
Brown Is Beautiful
Reflections on 'The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative: The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments
I joined the American Sociological Association (ASA) in the late 1970s; since then there have been only a few events bringing members together to reflect on race relations, systemic racism, and the inclusion of race in curricula. The town hall meeting at the 2016 ASA Annual Meetings in Seattle, Washington, was one of the significant moments when we turned our sociological imagination on ourselves. This is a time to lift the veils, to make visible…
Conceptualizing the Foundation of Inequalities in Care Work
Over the past decade, social science researchers in the area of feminism, labor, immigration, and family have written extensively on the care work crisis and globalized care work. Depending on how broadly care work is conceived, these writings emphasize unique aspects of gender, race, class, and/or citizenship inequalities. Second wave of feminist perspectives, for instance, identify housework and most work culturally defined as "women's work"-in…
Domestic service in the transition from rural to urban life: The case of La Chicana
(1987). Domestic service in the transition from rural to urban life: The case of La Chicana. Women's Studies: Vol. 13, As the World Turns: Women, Work, and International Migration, pp. 199-222
Reflections on Globalized Care Chains and Migrant Women Workers
An analysis of the international division of reproductive labor is incomplete without acknowledging the proliferation of state regulations in migrant-receiving countries, which result in restricting workers' ability to maintain their own families and to exercise their full range of labor rights. An overview of trends in nations fueling the need for domestic workers and caregivers includes the social conditions for migrants increasingly fill this …
China's borderlands in the post-globalization era
Not just like one of the family: Chicana domestics establishing professional relationships with employers
Nanny Diaries and Other Stories: Immigrant Women’s Labor in the Social Reproduction of American Families
Two former nannies employed on the Upper East Side of Manhattan offer this want ad as an illustration of employers’ expectations and working conditions awaiting potential employees. Although it is a fictionalized account of their total six-year experience as nannies while attending college, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’ The Nanny Diaries, A Novel has spurred significant attention from the media. Editorials, letters to the editor, book reviews…
Chicano Discourse about Language Use
Discurso chicano acerca del uso del idioma Este etudio investiga la relación entre el uso del espanol y la identidad étnica. Se anlizó un incidente lingüístico específico en el cual los participantes usaron lenguaje chicano mientras que discutían este mismo modo de discurso. Por lo general, los participantes mayores de edad eran monolingües en español; los menores de edad tendían a ser exclusi-vamente angloparlantes; mientras que los participante…
Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes
Integrating sociology: Observations on race and gender relations in sociology graduate programs
New Perspectives on Latina Women
A comparison between strategies used on prisoners of war and battered wives
El Paso Salt War
Research Article| September 01 1985 El Paso Salt War: Mob Action or Political Struggle? Mary Romero Mary Romero Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (1985) 16 (1-2): 119–143. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.1985.16.1-2.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon C…
Domestic service in the transition from rural to urban life: The case of La Chicana
(1987). Domestic service in the transition from rural to urban life: The case of La Chicana. Women's Studies: Vol. 13, As the World Turns: Women, Work, and International Migration, pp. 199-222
Chicano Discourse about Language Use
Discurso chicano acerca del uso del idioma Este etudio investiga la relación entre el uso del espanol y la identidad étnica. Se anlizó un incidente lingüístico específico en el cual los participantes usaron lenguaje chicano mientras que discutían este mismo modo de discurso. Por lo general, los participantes mayores de edad eran monolingües en español; los menores de edad tendían a ser exclusi-vamente angloparlantes; mientras que los participante…
Sisterhood and Domestic Service: Race, Class and Gender in the Mistress-Maid Relationship
Chicanas modernize domestic service
Not just like one of the family: Chicana domestics establishing professional relationships with employers
The Broken Web: The Educational Experience of Hispanic American Women
Syllabi and Instructional Materials for Chicano and Latino Studies in Sociology
New Perspectives on Latina Women
Maid in the U.S.A
Maid in the U.S.A
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology
Included in RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER are 64 interdisciplinary readings. The authors provide very accessible articles that show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; it has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and it is strengthened by conceptual introductions…
Language revitalization efforts in the Pueblo de Cochiti: Becoming “literate” in an oral society
Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class
Women and Work explores how race, ethnicity and social class shape the working lives, working conditions and wages of women from non-white, non-citizen or working-class backgrounds
Gender, Ethnicity, and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics
Racism and Paid Work
The Department Is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative: The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Sociology Departments
In this article, Eric Margolis and Mary Romero examine the effect of the "hidden curriculum" on women of color graduate students in sociology. They interview twenty-six women of color enrolled in Ph.D. programs in sociology to uncover how the graduate school curriculum not only produces professional sociologists, but also simultaneously reproduces gender, race, class, and other forms of inequality. In their analysis, Margolis and Romero identify …
Reclaiming Communities and Languages
This article discusses efforts by tribal leaders and members of Cochiti Pueblo, one of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico, to restore aspects of community life that had been damaged by federal programs-programs that had been carried out without careful study of how they might affect the community. The construction of a dam above the Pueblo by the Army Corps of Engineers nearly three decades ago resulted in the destruction of the pueblo's farmlands. It …
Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada
Radical In ventions: Identity, Politics, and Difference/s in Educational Praxis
Integrating sociology: Observations on race and gender relations in sociology graduate programs
Marking Time and Progress
Disciplining the Feminist Bodies of Knowledge: Are We Creating or Reproducing Academic Structure
In this essay I examine the debates over the direction of Women's Studies toward disciplinary or interdisciplinary paths. Current trends in Women's Studies has been largely shaped by institutional constraints and the accommodations toward institutional survival has limited interdisciplinary exchanges to multi-disciplinary discussions. Consequently, the transformation of the academic structure has been replaced by reproducing a women's studies spa…
Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Class
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