Pamela Anne Quiroz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Anne Quiroz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Quiroz |
| SIGNATURE | QUIROZ P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Selective Enrollment, Race, and Shifting the Geography of Educational Opportunity
We have increasingly witnessed a movement toward neoliberalism, an ideological and economic system that promotes aggressiveness in the public environment and shifts the attention of states from addressing the needs of their citizens to exhorting citizens to address their own needs. Beyond deregulation, the reduction of government’s role in the economy, and the dominance of market-oriented ideas, neoliberalism prioritizes education as a mechanism …
Letter from the Co-Editors
In June of 2014, the editorial office of Social Problems moved to the University of Illinois-Chicago. As co-editors we are excited about the opportunity to contribute to the tradition of excellence of Social Problems . Our new editorial team includes associate editors Hector Carillo (Northwestern University), Sharon Collins (University of Illinois-Chicago), Heather Dalmage (Roosevelt University), David Embrick (Loyola University-Chicago), Roberto…
School as solution to the problem of urban place
This case study explores how student migration impacts low-income fourth grade African American and Latino children in the US who leave their neighborhoods to attend a state-of-the-art facility in a downtown urban area. Children at the World Citizens School (WCS) convey how safety plays a key role in their restrictions by parents and in their daily lives in a near total institutional environment. The use of multiple methods show how the social re…
From Finding the Perfect Love Online to Satellite Dating and ‘Loving-the-One-You’re Near’
Marketing diversity and the ‘new’ politics of desegregation
Situating ethnographic methods within a framework of engaged research we offer a window into the adoption, implementation, and sociopolitical dilemmas of 15 African American males participating in a program designed to maintain diversity at one of Chicago’s most successful and elite public high schools. The article presents a four-year study (2007–2011) of an explicitly class-based and implicitly race-based attempt to engage the ‘new’ politics of…
Cultural Tourism in Transnational Adoption
The discursive practices of adoptive parents in two online transnational adoption forums (2006-2008) and observations of five international adoption workshops suggest that what Heather Jacobson described as culture keeping, the cultural socialization of children that retains a sense of native group identity, is more aptly characterized as cultural tourism, the selective appropriation and consumption of renovated cultural symbols, artifacts, and e…
From race matching to transracial adoption
Changes in US society have found their way into the adoption arena, resulting in new policies and participants in the adoption process and altering the discourse of adoption. Although the discourse of modern adoption has shifted, the legacy of race in adoption remains. Drawing on popular adoption literature, information in the public domain, and discussions in an adoption forum, this paper argues that despite efforts at reconstruction, racial ine…
Transnational adoption
Purpose – Popularly viewed as a humanitarian issue that transcends not only geopolitical boundaries of nationality but also sociopolitical borders of race, the ways in which transnational adoption reflects the racialization of children are often ignored. Because adoption is not a random process of family building but rather a purposive endeavor that involves the multiple dynamics of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and disability, it is im…
Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy
A prevailing ideology of color-blindness has resulted in privatizing the discourse on adoption. Color-blind individualism, the adoption arena's version of color-blind discourse, argues that race should not matter in adoption; racism can be eradicated through transracial adoption; and individual rights should be exercised without interference of the state. As privatization has increasingly dominated our world and disparities between countries have…
Education in the New Latino Diaspora
Who Controls Teachers' Work
Schooling the Symbolic Animal
"The Silencing of Latino Student "Voice
Narratives of 27 Puerto Rican and Mexican students, written first in eighth grade then again as juniors in high school, address the important question of "Who am I?" and illustrate school-sponsored silencing, with students' critiques of their educational experience ignored by both the elementary and the high school. The narratives also provide a window into the high dropout rates of Latino children, the reasons behind students' academic decisions…
Articles
A Rose by Any Other Name
This article uses a dramaturgical approach to analyze Chicago school reform as it is interpreted by Latino and Anglo teachers in one predominantly Latino high school. We present our analysis in the scripted form of performance science, fashioning two juxtaposed monologues that represent composites of oppositional groups encountered at the school as teachers struggled to translate reform into action. The article also identifies the conditions and …
Dirty Business
Teacher Types, Workplace Controls, and the Organization of Schools
The theory of workplace control in American high schools presented in this article is based on the assumption that the school workplace contains potent systems that control the everyday work attitudes and conduct of teachers. The theory posits the formation of teacher types, each comprising distinctive attitudes toward work and behavior, as the link between control systems and the way teachers conduct their work. Four control systems and correspo…
Organizational Control in the High School Workplace
In this article, a new approach is taken to the question of the control of teachers' work. This approach is contrasted with Weberian, loose coupling, and instructional approaches. Using the high school as a grounding case, an argument is made that school workplaces may provide a variety of controls of teachers' work, embedded in the social organization of the school. Trends toward one or another control mechanism are said to depend on variation i…
"The Silencing of Latino Student "Voice
Narratives of 27 Puerto Rican and Mexican students, written first in eighth grade then again as juniors in high school, address the important question of "Who am I?" and illustrate school-sponsored silencing, with students' critiques of their educational experience ignored by both the elementary and the high school. The narratives also provide a window into the high dropout rates of Latino children, the reasons behind students' academic decisions…
Teacher Types, Workplace Controls, and the Organization of Schools
The theory of workplace control in American high schools presented in this article is based on the assumption that the school workplace contains potent systems that control the everyday work attitudes and conduct of teachers. The theory posits the formation of teacher types, each comprising distinctive attitudes toward work and behavior, as the link between control systems and the way teachers conduct their work. Four control systems and correspo…
Cultural Tourism in Transnational Adoption
The discursive practices of adoptive parents in two online transnational adoption forums (2006-2008) and observations of five international adoption workshops suggest that what Heather Jacobson described as culture keeping, the cultural socialization of children that retains a sense of native group identity, is more aptly characterized as cultural tourism, the selective appropriation and consumption of renovated cultural symbols, artifacts, and e…
Who Controls Teachers' Work
School as solution to the problem of urban place
This case study explores how student migration impacts low-income fourth grade African American and Latino children in the US who leave their neighborhoods to attend a state-of-the-art facility in a downtown urban area. Children at the World Citizens School (WCS) convey how safety plays a key role in their restrictions by parents and in their daily lives in a near total institutional environment. The use of multiple methods show how the social re…
From race matching to transracial adoption
Changes in US society have found their way into the adoption arena, resulting in new policies and participants in the adoption process and altering the discourse of adoption. Although the discourse of modern adoption has shifted, the legacy of race in adoption remains. Drawing on popular adoption literature, information in the public domain, and discussions in an adoption forum, this paper argues that despite efforts at reconstruction, racial ine…
Marketing diversity and the ‘new’ politics of desegregation
Situating ethnographic methods within a framework of engaged research we offer a window into the adoption, implementation, and sociopolitical dilemmas of 15 African American males participating in a program designed to maintain diversity at one of Chicago’s most successful and elite public high schools. The article presents a four-year study (2007–2011) of an explicitly class-based and implicitly race-based attempt to engage the ‘new’ politics of…
Organizational Control in the High School Workplace
In this article, a new approach is taken to the question of the control of teachers' work. This approach is contrasted with Weberian, loose coupling, and instructional approaches. Using the high school as a grounding case, an argument is made that school workplaces may provide a variety of controls of teachers' work, embedded in the social organization of the school. Trends toward one or another control mechanism are said to depend on variation i…
Selective Enrollment, Race, and Shifting the Geography of Educational Opportunity
We have increasingly witnessed a movement toward neoliberalism, an ideological and economic system that promotes aggressiveness in the public environment and shifts the attention of states from addressing the needs of their citizens to exhorting citizens to address their own needs. Beyond deregulation, the reduction of government’s role in the economy, and the dominance of market-oriented ideas, neoliberalism prioritizes education as a mechanism …
From Finding the Perfect Love Online to Satellite Dating and ‘Loving-the-One-You’re Near’
Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy
A prevailing ideology of color-blindness has resulted in privatizing the discourse on adoption. Color-blind individualism, the adoption arena's version of color-blind discourse, argues that race should not matter in adoption; racism can be eradicated through transracial adoption; and individual rights should be exercised without interference of the state. As privatization has increasingly dominated our world and disparities between countries have…
Education in the New Latino Diaspora
Articles
Organizational Control in the High School Workplace
In this article, a new approach is taken to the question of the control of teachers' work. This approach is contrasted with Weberian, loose coupling, and instructional approaches. Using the high school as a grounding case, an argument is made that school workplaces may provide a variety of controls of teachers' work, embedded in the social organization of the school. Trends toward one or another control mechanism are said to depend on variation i…
Dirty Business
Teacher Types, Workplace Controls, and the Organization of Schools
The theory of workplace control in American high schools presented in this article is based on the assumption that the school workplace contains potent systems that control the everyday work attitudes and conduct of teachers. The theory posits the formation of teacher types, each comprising distinctive attitudes toward work and behavior, as the link between control systems and the way teachers conduct their work. Four control systems and correspo…
A Rose by Any Other Name
This article uses a dramaturgical approach to analyze Chicago school reform as it is interpreted by Latino and Anglo teachers in one predominantly Latino high school. We present our analysis in the scripted form of performance science, fashioning two juxtaposed monologues that represent composites of oppositional groups encountered at the school as teachers struggled to translate reform into action. The article also identifies the conditions and …
Articles
"The Silencing of Latino Student "Voice
Narratives of 27 Puerto Rican and Mexican students, written first in eighth grade then again as juniors in high school, address the important question of "Who am I?" and illustrate school-sponsored silencing, with students' critiques of their educational experience ignored by both the elementary and the high school. The narratives also provide a window into the high dropout rates of Latino children, the reasons behind students' academic decisions…
Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Who Controls Teachers' Work
Education in the New Latino Diaspora
Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy
A prevailing ideology of color-blindness has resulted in privatizing the discourse on adoption. Color-blind individualism, the adoption arena's version of color-blind discourse, argues that race should not matter in adoption; racism can be eradicated through transracial adoption; and individual rights should be exercised without interference of the state. As privatization has increasingly dominated our world and disparities between countries have…
From race matching to transracial adoption
Changes in US society have found their way into the adoption arena, resulting in new policies and participants in the adoption process and altering the discourse of adoption. Although the discourse of modern adoption has shifted, the legacy of race in adoption remains. Drawing on popular adoption literature, information in the public domain, and discussions in an adoption forum, this paper argues that despite efforts at reconstruction, racial ine…
Transnational adoption
Purpose – Popularly viewed as a humanitarian issue that transcends not only geopolitical boundaries of nationality but also sociopolitical borders of race, the ways in which transnational adoption reflects the racialization of children are often ignored. Because adoption is not a random process of family building but rather a purposive endeavor that involves the multiple dynamics of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and disability, it is im…
Marketing diversity and the ‘new’ politics of desegregation
Situating ethnographic methods within a framework of engaged research we offer a window into the adoption, implementation, and sociopolitical dilemmas of 15 African American males participating in a program designed to maintain diversity at one of Chicago’s most successful and elite public high schools. The article presents a four-year study (2007–2011) of an explicitly class-based and implicitly race-based attempt to engage the ‘new’ politics of…
Cultural Tourism in Transnational Adoption
The discursive practices of adoptive parents in two online transnational adoption forums (2006-2008) and observations of five international adoption workshops suggest that what Heather Jacobson described as culture keeping, the cultural socialization of children that retains a sense of native group identity, is more aptly characterized as cultural tourism, the selective appropriation and consumption of renovated cultural symbols, artifacts, and e…
From Finding the Perfect Love Online to Satellite Dating and ‘Loving-the-One-You’re Near’
School as solution to the problem of urban place
This case study explores how student migration impacts low-income fourth grade African American and Latino children in the US who leave their neighborhoods to attend a state-of-the-art facility in a downtown urban area. Children at the World Citizens School (WCS) convey how safety plays a key role in their restrictions by parents and in their daily lives in a near total institutional environment. The use of multiple methods show how the social re…
Selective Enrollment, Race, and Shifting the Geography of Educational Opportunity
We have increasingly witnessed a movement toward neoliberalism, an ideological and economic system that promotes aggressiveness in the public environment and shifts the attention of states from addressing the needs of their citizens to exhorting citizens to address their own needs. Beyond deregulation, the reduction of government’s role in the economy, and the dominance of market-oriented ideas, neoliberalism prioritizes education as a mechanism …
Letter from the Co-Editors
In June of 2014, the editorial office of Social Problems moved to the University of Illinois-Chicago. As co-editors we are excited about the opportunity to contribute to the tradition of excellence of Social Problems . Our new editorial team includes associate editors Hector Carillo (Northwestern University), Sharon Collins (University of Illinois-Chicago), Heather Dalmage (Roosevelt University), David Embrick (Loyola University-Chicago), Roberto…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works)