Tess Wise
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tess Wise |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tess |
| FAMILY NAME | Wise |
| SIGNATURE | WISE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6817-5216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intersectional and historical contingencies in racial capitalism
This article develops a racial capitalist theory of predatory inclusion to explain how consumer credit reproduces racial hierarchy in the United States. Predatory inclusion describes how marginalized groups gain access to credit on exploitative terms, transforming inequality into profitability. I argue that predatory inclusion is best understood as a racial capitalist logic of accumulation through dispossession, naturalized by race and structured…
Critical Race Theories and the Political Economy of Systemic Racism
This article demonstrates how political science, particularly the emerging field of American Political Economy (APE), can more robustly theorize and study the political economy of systemic racism by drawing on insights from critical race theories, including intersectionality and racial capitalism, and post/anti-colonial theory. A paired case study of the foreclosure “noncrisis” of the 1990s and the coerced sterilization of incarcerated women in C…
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Bankruptcy’s Political Development
Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science
At a recent major political science conference, Tamara (not her real name) presented an in-depth qualitative study several years in the making, only to have the panelist speaking after her begin his remarks by saying, “And now back to the hard-core data.” By this, he meant quantitative, large-n data, which his work utilized. This moment highlights a series of tensions in our field relating to gender and methodology, and their effects, which this …
The Politics of Language
This volume surveys and analyzes the historical background of recent controversies over language in the US, and compares the country to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. This book should be suitable for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology. It is intended for undergraduate students and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and race, ethnic relations, and political sociolog…
Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science
At a recent major political science conference, Tamara (not her real name) presented an in-depth qualitative study several years in the making, only to have the panelist speaking after her begin his remarks by saying, “And now back to the hard-core data.” By this, he meant quantitative, large-n data, which his work utilized. This moment highlights a series of tensions in our field relating to gender and methodology, and their effects, which this …
The Politics of Language
This volume surveys and analyzes the historical background of recent controversies over language in the US, and compares the country to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. This book should be suitable for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology. It is intended for undergraduate students and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and race, ethnic relations, and political sociolog…
Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science
At a recent major political science conference, Tamara (not her real name) presented an in-depth qualitative study several years in the making, only to have the panelist speaking after her begin his remarks by saying, “And now back to the hard-core data.” By this, he meant quantitative, large-n data, which his work utilized. This moment highlights a series of tensions in our field relating to gender and methodology, and their effects, which this …
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Bankruptcy’s Political Development
Intersectional and historical contingencies in racial capitalism
This article develops a racial capitalist theory of predatory inclusion to explain how consumer credit reproduces racial hierarchy in the United States. Predatory inclusion describes how marginalized groups gain access to credit on exploitative terms, transforming inequality into profitability. I argue that predatory inclusion is best understood as a racial capitalist logic of accumulation through dispossession, naturalized by race and structured…
Critical Race Theories and the Political Economy of Systemic Racism
This article demonstrates how political science, particularly the emerging field of American Political Economy (APE), can more robustly theorize and study the political economy of systemic racism by drawing on insights from critical race theories, including intersectionality and racial capitalism, and post/anti-colonial theory. A paired case study of the foreclosure “noncrisis” of the 1990s and the coerced sterilization of incarcerated women in C…
Politics (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Critical race theory (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Intersectionality (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)