Ranita Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ranita Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ranita |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8817-4846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom
I draw on three years of participant observations in one socio-economically marginalized public elementary and one middle school to document how teachers strategically mobilize the discursive landscape of race consciousness to 1) position themselves as racially progressive while perpetuating racial harm; 2) pathologize racially marginalized students, their families, and communities; and 3) engage in racial harassment. Race-conscious racism, thus,…
School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom
The paradox of girls' academic gains over boys, across race and class, has perplexed scholars for the last few decades. Through a 3-year longitudinal ethnography of two predominantly economically marginalized and racially minoritized schools, I contend that while racially marginalized girls may have made academic gains, school is nevertheless a hostile institution for them. Focusing on the case of Black girls and recent immigrant girls of color, …
The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Envisioning a feminist urban ethnography: Structure, culture, and new directions in poverty studies
A “risk” discourse, characterized by the focus on behaviors of the economically marginalized especially as it relates to drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood, has traditionally dominated poverty research in the United States. More recently, this hegemonic risk discourse has become contoured by the so‐called new cultural turn in urban poverty studies, which has been marked as a departure from the earlier “blame the victim” perspectives. In …
The making of a teenage service class: Poverty and mobility in an American city
Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of concentrating on risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Having spent three years among sixteen black a…
Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals
Racialized and classed 'risk' narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers' agency in n…
Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen pregnancy. Common wisdom posits that targeting these “risk behaviors” is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of centering risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Ray spent three years among sixteen black and Latina/o youth from one economically marginalized neighborhood in a northeastern U.…
Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City: Rethinking Kinship Ties of the Urban Poor
Drawing on three years of fieldwork among a group of young men and women from a poor urban community in Northeastern United States, I explore the salience of sibling ties in the lives of poor urban youth. Observations reveal that siblings provide crucial support in navigating institutions such as school, work, and criminal justice system. Proximity in age combined with familial piety and exposure to almost identical family, school, and neighborho…
As the Leaves Turn Gold: Asian Americans and Experiences of Aging
As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated early in life and those who immigrated late in life—and features interview excerpts that bring these issues to life. The book shows how the life…
School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom
The paradox of girls' academic gains over boys, across race and class, has perplexed scholars for the last few decades. Through a 3-year longitudinal ethnography of two predominantly economically marginalized and racially minoritized schools, I contend that while racially marginalized girls may have made academic gains, school is nevertheless a hostile institution for them. Focusing on the case of Black girls and recent immigrant girls of color, …
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom
I draw on three years of participant observations in one socio-economically marginalized public elementary and one middle school to document how teachers strategically mobilize the discursive landscape of race consciousness to 1) position themselves as racially progressive while perpetuating racial harm; 2) pathologize racially marginalized students, their families, and communities; and 3) engage in racial harassment. Race-conscious racism, thus,…
Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals
Racialized and classed 'risk' narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers' agency in n…
Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City: Rethinking Kinship Ties of the Urban Poor
Drawing on three years of fieldwork among a group of young men and women from a poor urban community in Northeastern United States, I explore the salience of sibling ties in the lives of poor urban youth. Observations reveal that siblings provide crucial support in navigating institutions such as school, work, and criminal justice system. Proximity in age combined with familial piety and exposure to almost identical family, school, and neighborho…
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism
Envisioning a feminist urban ethnography: Structure, culture, and new directions in poverty studies
A “risk” discourse, characterized by the focus on behaviors of the economically marginalized especially as it relates to drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood, has traditionally dominated poverty research in the United States. More recently, this hegemonic risk discourse has become contoured by the so‐called new cultural turn in urban poverty studies, which has been marked as a departure from the earlier “blame the victim” perspectives. In …
As the Leaves Turn Gold: Asian Americans and Experiences of Aging
As the Leaves Turn Gold examines the challenges and opportunities around aging for Asian American women and men in the United States. The book looks at a range of Asian Americans—affluent and poor, third-generation natives and recent immigrants, political exiles and recent migrants, people who immigrated early in life and those who immigrated late in life—and features interview excerpts that bring these issues to life. The book shows how the life…
Exchange and Intimacy in the Inner City: Rethinking Kinship Ties of the Urban Poor
Drawing on three years of fieldwork among a group of young men and women from a poor urban community in Northeastern United States, I explore the salience of sibling ties in the lives of poor urban youth. Observations reveal that siblings provide crucial support in navigating institutions such as school, work, and criminal justice system. Proximity in age combined with familial piety and exposure to almost identical family, school, and neighborho…
Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen pregnancy. Common wisdom posits that targeting these “risk behaviors” is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of centering risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Ray spent three years among sixteen black and Latina/o youth from one economically marginalized neighborhood in a northeastern U.…
Envisioning a feminist urban ethnography: Structure, culture, and new directions in poverty studies
A “risk” discourse, characterized by the focus on behaviors of the economically marginalized especially as it relates to drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood, has traditionally dominated poverty research in the United States. More recently, this hegemonic risk discourse has become contoured by the so‐called new cultural turn in urban poverty studies, which has been marked as a departure from the earlier “blame the victim” perspectives. In …
The making of a teenage service class: Poverty and mobility in an American city
Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of concentrating on risk behaviors as key to targeting poverty. Having spent three years among sixteen black a…
Identity of Distance: How Economically Marginalized Black and Latina Women Navigate Risk Discourse and Employ Feminist Ideals
Racialized and classed 'risk' narratives of sexuality in the United States construct economically marginalized young women of color as sexually precocious, potential teen mothers who are likely to end up as burdens on the state. Some scholars underline the utility of recognizing reproductive inequalities involved in constructing teen motherhood as an unequivocal social problem, and they stress the importance of exploring teen mothers' agency in n…
The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom
The paradox of girls' academic gains over boys, across race and class, has perplexed scholars for the last few decades. Through a 3-year longitudinal ethnography of two predominantly economically marginalized and racially minoritized schools, I contend that while racially marginalized girls may have made academic gains, school is nevertheless a hostile institution for them. Focusing on the case of Black girls and recent immigrant girls of color, …
The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom
I draw on three years of participant observations in one socio-economically marginalized public elementary and one middle school to document how teachers strategically mobilize the discursive landscape of race consciousness to 1) position themselves as racially progressive while perpetuating racial harm; 2) pathologize racially marginalized students, their families, and communities; and 3) engage in racial harassment. Race-conscious racism, thus,…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Economics (3 works)