M R Lowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 57380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M R Lowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | M R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowe |
| SIGNATURE | LOWE M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5046-7213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
White Grievance as a Predictor of American Attitudes Toward Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory (CRT), developed by legal scholars over forty years ago, highlights how structural racism is embedded within American institutions. Yet, CRT did not become a national flashpoint until 2020, during the height of Black Lives Matter demonstrations against racial injustice. At that time, CRT attracted widespread condemnation from conservative lawmakers, who claimed it was unfair to whites and introduced legislation to ban it from…
“Racism Masked as Safety Concerns”
Prior studies have focused on ways that White residents in predominantly White neighborhoods monitor their community for suspicious people and how these practices are racialized. However, only limited attention has been given to how residents of color in such neighborhoods experience these surveillance efforts. In this article, we explore how mostly White neighbors conduct on-the-ground monitoring of people of color in their daily lives, a proces…
I Live Here”
In many liberal predominantly white neighborhoods, white residents view their communities as inclusive yet they also engage in racialized surveillance to monitor individuals they perceive as outsiders. Some of these efforts center on people of color in neighborhood open spaces. We use a diversity ideology framework to analyze this contradiction, paying particular attention to how residents of color experience racialized surveillance of their neig…
Neutralized Hegemonic Banter
Using a mixed methods approach, this article explores factors that contribute to undergraduate students' beliefs about the harm caused by racist and sexist jokes. Quantitative results indicate that, net of other demographic control variables, college men are less likely to agree that sexist and racist jokes are harmful. Qualitative findings shed light on this pattern via a process we callneutralized hegemonic banter. By connecting students' persp…
Performativity Double Standards and the Sexual Orientation Climate at a Southern Liberal Arts University
This study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how heterosexual, bisexual, and gay students rate and describe a Southern, religiously affiliated university's sexual orientation climate. Using qualitative data, queer theory, and the concept tyranny of sexualized spaces, we explain why non-heterosexual students have more negative perceptions of the university climate than heterosexual male students, in both bivariate and multiva…
Who Looks Suspicious? Racialized Surveillance in a Predominantly White Neighborhood
In recent decades, neighborhoods across the United States have begun to employ digital media to monitor their communities for outsiders who are seen as suspicious. Yet, little is known about these surveillance practices and their consequences at the individual and neighborhood levels. Such monitoring behaviors are important to analyze not only because of the ways that perceptions of criminal threat are often racialized but also because of the rol…
The Racialized Impact of Study Abroad on US Students’ Subsequent Interracial Interactions
Using an online survey of American undergraduate students, this paper serves as a case study of a liberal arts college located in the Southern United States (US) to explore the effects of studying abroad on students’ attitudes and behavior related to diversity upon their return to campus. We find that white students and students of color report significantly different study abroad experiences and distinct patterns related to their likelihood to e…
Food for Thought
This article describes a study that explored factors which influenced undergraduate students' perceptions of the racial climate at a predominantly white liberal arts university in the South. Mixed methods results suggest that race, aspects of the institutional climate, and frequent interracial dining experiences in the campus cafeteria differentially affected students' campus racial climate perceptions
“Sowing the Seeds of Discontent”
Based on archival research and in-depth interviews conducted from 1999 through 2007, this article examines the role of Tougaloo College's Social Science Forums as a prefigurative collective free space in Mississippi's civil rights struggles. These Forums offered White and Black integrationists a unique opportunity to come together to hear lectures and discuss provocative ideas, some of which informed and inspired challenges to the state's system …
An Unseen Hand
Based on archival and interview research, the current article examines the leadership roles of Tougaloo College's Sociology Professor Ernst Borinski, a German-Jewish Holocaust refugee, in Mississippi's racial integration struggles in the 1950s and 1960s. Embodying characteristics of both a bridge leader and a transformative intellectual, Professor Borinski worked behind the scenes and utilized the academy's resources and his status as an `outside…
An "Oasis of Freedom" in a "Closed Society
Based on archival research and in-depth interviews, this study explores how Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi developed into a pivotal movement center in Mississippi's civil rights movement and the ways in which Tougaloo's faculty and administrators as organic intellectuals helped to create, maintain, and augment such a free space and the social networks who utilized it. The school served as an interracial "safe haven" for those involved i…
Women of Steel
A lot of people in general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky ...that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like. So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature prominently, are typically viewed by public as being outside boundaries of appropriate femininity. And perhaps no group of women athletes embodies this gender outlaw sta…
Reinventing the Sexes
Who Looks Suspicious? Racialized Surveillance in a Predominantly White Neighborhood
In recent decades, neighborhoods across the United States have begun to employ digital media to monitor their communities for outsiders who are seen as suspicious. Yet, little is known about these surveillance practices and their consequences at the individual and neighborhood levels. Such monitoring behaviors are important to analyze not only because of the ways that perceptions of criminal threat are often racialized but also because of the rol…
Neutralized Hegemonic Banter
Using a mixed methods approach, this article explores factors that contribute to undergraduate students' beliefs about the harm caused by racist and sexist jokes. Quantitative results indicate that, net of other demographic control variables, college men are less likely to agree that sexist and racist jokes are harmful. Qualitative findings shed light on this pattern via a process we callneutralized hegemonic banter. By connecting students' persp…
Performativity Double Standards and the Sexual Orientation Climate at a Southern Liberal Arts University
This study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how heterosexual, bisexual, and gay students rate and describe a Southern, religiously affiliated university's sexual orientation climate. Using qualitative data, queer theory, and the concept tyranny of sexualized spaces, we explain why non-heterosexual students have more negative perceptions of the university climate than heterosexual male students, in both bivariate and multiva…
Food for Thought
This article describes a study that explored factors which influenced undergraduate students' perceptions of the racial climate at a predominantly white liberal arts university in the South. Mixed methods results suggest that race, aspects of the institutional climate, and frequent interracial dining experiences in the campus cafeteria differentially affected students' campus racial climate perceptions
I Live Here”
In many liberal predominantly white neighborhoods, white residents view their communities as inclusive yet they also engage in racialized surveillance to monitor individuals they perceive as outsiders. Some of these efforts center on people of color in neighborhood open spaces. We use a diversity ideology framework to analyze this contradiction, paying particular attention to how residents of color experience racialized surveillance of their neig…
An "Oasis of Freedom" in a "Closed Society
Based on archival research and in-depth interviews, this study explores how Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi developed into a pivotal movement center in Mississippi's civil rights movement and the ways in which Tougaloo's faculty and administrators as organic intellectuals helped to create, maintain, and augment such a free space and the social networks who utilized it. The school served as an interracial "safe haven" for those involved i…
Women of Steel
A lot of people in general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky ...that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like. So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature prominently, are typically viewed by public as being outside boundaries of appropriate femininity. And perhaps no group of women athletes embodies this gender outlaw sta…
Reinventing the Sexes
An "Oasis of Freedom" in a "Closed Society
Based on archival research and in-depth interviews, this study explores how Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi developed into a pivotal movement center in Mississippi's civil rights movement and the ways in which Tougaloo's faculty and administrators as organic intellectuals helped to create, maintain, and augment such a free space and the social networks who utilized it. The school served as an interracial "safe haven" for those involved i…
An Unseen Hand
Based on archival and interview research, the current article examines the leadership roles of Tougaloo College's Sociology Professor Ernst Borinski, a German-Jewish Holocaust refugee, in Mississippi's racial integration struggles in the 1950s and 1960s. Embodying characteristics of both a bridge leader and a transformative intellectual, Professor Borinski worked behind the scenes and utilized the academy's resources and his status as an `outside…
“Sowing the Seeds of Discontent”
Based on archival research and in-depth interviews conducted from 1999 through 2007, this article examines the role of Tougaloo College's Social Science Forums as a prefigurative collective free space in Mississippi's civil rights struggles. These Forums offered White and Black integrationists a unique opportunity to come together to hear lectures and discuss provocative ideas, some of which informed and inspired challenges to the state's system …
Food for Thought
This article describes a study that explored factors which influenced undergraduate students' perceptions of the racial climate at a predominantly white liberal arts university in the South. Mixed methods results suggest that race, aspects of the institutional climate, and frequent interracial dining experiences in the campus cafeteria differentially affected students' campus racial climate perceptions
The Racialized Impact of Study Abroad on US Students’ Subsequent Interracial Interactions
Using an online survey of American undergraduate students, this paper serves as a case study of a liberal arts college located in the Southern United States (US) to explore the effects of studying abroad on students’ attitudes and behavior related to diversity upon their return to campus. We find that white students and students of color report significantly different study abroad experiences and distinct patterns related to their likelihood to e…
Who Looks Suspicious? Racialized Surveillance in a Predominantly White Neighborhood
In recent decades, neighborhoods across the United States have begun to employ digital media to monitor their communities for outsiders who are seen as suspicious. Yet, little is known about these surveillance practices and their consequences at the individual and neighborhood levels. Such monitoring behaviors are important to analyze not only because of the ways that perceptions of criminal threat are often racialized but also because of the rol…
Performativity Double Standards and the Sexual Orientation Climate at a Southern Liberal Arts University
This study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how heterosexual, bisexual, and gay students rate and describe a Southern, religiously affiliated university's sexual orientation climate. Using qualitative data, queer theory, and the concept tyranny of sexualized spaces, we explain why non-heterosexual students have more negative perceptions of the university climate than heterosexual male students, in both bivariate and multiva…
I Live Here”
In many liberal predominantly white neighborhoods, white residents view their communities as inclusive yet they also engage in racialized surveillance to monitor individuals they perceive as outsiders. Some of these efforts center on people of color in neighborhood open spaces. We use a diversity ideology framework to analyze this contradiction, paying particular attention to how residents of color experience racialized surveillance of their neig…
Neutralized Hegemonic Banter
Using a mixed methods approach, this article explores factors that contribute to undergraduate students' beliefs about the harm caused by racist and sexist jokes. Quantitative results indicate that, net of other demographic control variables, college men are less likely to agree that sexist and racist jokes are harmful. Qualitative findings shed light on this pattern via a process we callneutralized hegemonic banter. By connecting students' persp…
“Racism Masked as Safety Concerns”
Prior studies have focused on ways that White residents in predominantly White neighborhoods monitor their community for suspicious people and how these practices are racialized. However, only limited attention has been given to how residents of color in such neighborhoods experience these surveillance efforts. In this article, we explore how mostly White neighbors conduct on-the-ground monitoring of people of color in their daily lives, a proces…
White Grievance as a Predictor of American Attitudes Toward Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory (CRT), developed by legal scholars over forty years ago, highlights how structural racism is embedded within American institutions. Yet, CRT did not become a national flashpoint until 2020, during the height of Black Lives Matter demonstrations against racial injustice. At that time, CRT attracted widespread condemnation from conservative lawmakers, who claimed it was unfair to whites and introduced legislation to ban it from…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Racism (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · White (mutation (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (3 works)