Tiffany D Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 632360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiffany D Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiffany D |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3351-1678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Health migrations
Not All In
Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare [Joseph, Tiffany. 2025. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press] examines how racialized legal status hindered access to coverage and care for Latin American immigrants in Boston amid health and immigration policy shifts from 2012 to 2019. I respond to the three symposium contributors by addressing their critiques of the racialized legal status framework, describin…
Language Barriers and Healthcare Challenges for Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency After Health Reform in the United States
Amid increased immigration enforcement and the rollback of health reform in the United States, immigrants' healthcare access is at the center of these policy debates. Though previous research has examined the impact of language barriers on healthcare access, few studies have examined it since health policies have been implemented. This article explores how various language barriers undermined Latino/a immigrants and citizens' ability to access co…
The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification
Public discourse on immigration and social services access has been contentious in immigrant-receiving countries. Scholars have examined immigrants' marginalization as a form of civic stratification, where boundaries based on documentation status affect immigrants' experiences and benefits granted by the state. This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions …
Challenges to transforming narratives and seeing others
In Seeing Others, sociologist Michéle Lamont argues that the way to heal our divided world is to see and recognize everyone's collective humanity. To make this argument, she utilizes insights from her past research and incorporates new data from 180 interviews conducted with Hollywood creatives, activists, and young people from around the United States since 2019. Lamont's main finding is that recognizing everyone's worth and dignity are vital to…
Reexamining racism, sexism, and identity taxation in the academy
Amid the 2020 COVID pandemic and officer-involved deaths of numerous Black Americans, US colleges and universities stated commitments to improve ethnoracial diversity and address structural racism.This type of diversityrelated work, which fell mostly upon faculty of colour, was not new, however.In 1994, Padilla coined the term "cultural taxation" to describe the disproportionate labour faculty of colour are expected to perform.Hirshfield and Jose…
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism
We would like to acknowledge the grant we received from the New Frontiers in Research Fund to undertake this research and collaboration. This work was funded through an Exploration Grant (1-51-48484) and is titled, “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”
Challenging federal exclusion
Double Consciousness in the 21st Century
In W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, he argued that the problem of the 20th century in the United States was the problem of the color line. Given that de facto and explicit racial discrimination persist, anti-immigrant rhetoric is intensifying, and legal status has become more salient, we argue Du Boisian theory remains relevant for understanding social and political cleavages in the 21st century United States. The intersection of race, ethnic…
Race on the Move
"Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address…
Race, Phenotype, and Nationality in Brazil and the United States
In recent decades, there have been substantial developments in the sociologies of the body and race. However, race has been understudied in sociology of the body at the same time that the sociology of race has not often explored the influence of phenotypical differences on individuals’ experiences and outcomes. Using ethnographic data from interviews with seventy-three Brazilians in Governador Valadares, this chapter illustrates how race and phen…
Framing Immigrants
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship
Still left out
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased healthcare access for many Americans. But, its exclusion of most noncitizens and imperfect state-level implementation stratified coverage by documentation status, place, income level, race, and ethnicity across the U.S.A. Drawing from the sociological literature on boundaries, this paper argues that these demographic boundaries facilitate de jure and de facto stratification for immigrants and low-incom…
Health care, immigrants, and minorities
By the twenty-first century, the number of people migrating across international borders had grown substantially, spurred by ongoing economic, political, and environmental change in the Global Sout
Ethnoracial inequality and insurance coverage among Latino young adults
Previous research has demonstrated that Latino young adults are uninsured at higher rates relative to other ethnoracial groups. Recent implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased access to health insurance for young adults, in part by maintaining health coverage through their parents until age 26. This paper examines patterns of Latino young adults' insurance coverage during early ACA implementation by addressing three ques…
Culling the Masses
Excluded and Frozen Out
Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 extends public and private insurance to 32 million individuals in the USA, it expressly excludes unauthorised adult immigrants from participating in the federally-subsidised state health exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. In this article, we show that the ACA has deepened the ‘brightness’ of unauthorised immigrants’ symbolic and social exclusion within the US health care system via a significant bou…
The Racial Incorporation of Latinos Into the U.S. Mainstream
For the last decade, scholars have pondered how the changing ethnoracial demographics of the United States would influence the country's racial, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape. Latinos are now the country's largest ethnoracial minority and the 2012 election provided an indication of just how significant this group will be for shaping the future of the United States. Scholars of race in particular have speculated how the ethni…
Banished to the Homeland
How does racial democracy exist in Brazil? Perceptions from Brazilians in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Gilberto Freyre conceptualized racial democracy to describe Brazil's non-racist and harmonious multiracial society in the early 1900s. I suggest there are three views for assessing racial democracy in scholarly literature: achieved Brazil is a multiracial non-racist society; oppressive Brazil is a racist society with strained interracial relations; and aspirational Brazil is a multiracial racist society that aspires to be non-racist. I then argue…
Becoming Brazuca
We need a woman, we need a black woman’
In 1994, Amado Padilla used the phrase ‘cultural taxation’ to describe the extra burden of service responsibilities placed upon minority faculty members because of their racial or ethnic background. In this paper, we expand upon Padilla's work and introduce the concept of ‘identity taxation’ to encompass how other marginalised social identities (such as gender, race and gender, and sexual orientation) may result in additional non-academic service…
Why don't you get somebody new to do it?' Race and cultural taxation in the academy
There has been a marginal increase in the number of racial minorities among college and university faculty, yet current attacks on affirmative action and prevailing attitudes about the inferiority of non-white faculty place an extra burden on these individuals in academia. Amado Padilla (1994) introduced the concept of 'cultural taxation' to describe this burden where additional responsibilities are placed upon non-white faculty because of their …
My Life was Filled with Constant Anxiety
Why don't you get somebody new to do it?' Race and cultural taxation in the academy
There has been a marginal increase in the number of racial minorities among college and university faculty, yet current attacks on affirmative action and prevailing attitudes about the inferiority of non-white faculty place an extra burden on these individuals in academia. Amado Padilla (1994) introduced the concept of 'cultural taxation' to describe this burden where additional responsibilities are placed upon non-white faculty because of their …
We need a woman, we need a black woman’
In 1994, Amado Padilla used the phrase ‘cultural taxation’ to describe the extra burden of service responsibilities placed upon minority faculty members because of their racial or ethnic background. In this paper, we expand upon Padilla's work and introduce the concept of ‘identity taxation’ to encompass how other marginalised social identities (such as gender, race and gender, and sexual orientation) may result in additional non-academic service…
Excluded and Frozen Out
Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 extends public and private insurance to 32 million individuals in the USA, it expressly excludes unauthorised adult immigrants from participating in the federally-subsidised state health exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. In this article, we show that the ACA has deepened the ‘brightness’ of unauthorised immigrants’ symbolic and social exclusion within the US health care system via a significant bou…
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism
We would like to acknowledge the grant we received from the New Frontiers in Research Fund to undertake this research and collaboration. This work was funded through an Exploration Grant (1-51-48484) and is titled, “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”
Health care, immigrants, and minorities
By the twenty-first century, the number of people migrating across international borders had grown substantially, spurred by ongoing economic, political, and environmental change in the Global Sout
Double Consciousness in the 21st Century
In W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, he argued that the problem of the 20th century in the United States was the problem of the color line. Given that de facto and explicit racial discrimination persist, anti-immigrant rhetoric is intensifying, and legal status has become more salient, we argue Du Boisian theory remains relevant for understanding social and political cleavages in the 21st century United States. The intersection of race, ethnic…
My Life was Filled with Constant Anxiety
How does racial democracy exist in Brazil? Perceptions from Brazilians in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Gilberto Freyre conceptualized racial democracy to describe Brazil's non-racist and harmonious multiracial society in the early 1900s. I suggest there are three views for assessing racial democracy in scholarly literature: achieved Brazil is a multiracial non-racist society; oppressive Brazil is a racist society with strained interracial relations; and aspirational Brazil is a multiracial racist society that aspires to be non-racist. I then argue…
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship
The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification
Public discourse on immigration and social services access has been contentious in immigrant-receiving countries. Scholars have examined immigrants' marginalization as a form of civic stratification, where boundaries based on documentation status affect immigrants' experiences and benefits granted by the state. This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions …
Still left out
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased healthcare access for many Americans. But, its exclusion of most noncitizens and imperfect state-level implementation stratified coverage by documentation status, place, income level, race, and ethnicity across the U.S.A. Drawing from the sociological literature on boundaries, this paper argues that these demographic boundaries facilitate de jure and de facto stratification for immigrants and low-incom…
Ethnoracial inequality and insurance coverage among Latino young adults
Previous research has demonstrated that Latino young adults are uninsured at higher rates relative to other ethnoracial groups. Recent implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased access to health insurance for young adults, in part by maintaining health coverage through their parents until age 26. This paper examines patterns of Latino young adults' insurance coverage during early ACA implementation by addressing three ques…
Challenges to transforming narratives and seeing others
In Seeing Others, sociologist Michéle Lamont argues that the way to heal our divided world is to see and recognize everyone's collective humanity. To make this argument, she utilizes insights from her past research and incorporates new data from 180 interviews conducted with Hollywood creatives, activists, and young people from around the United States since 2019. Lamont's main finding is that recognizing everyone's worth and dignity are vital to…
Challenging federal exclusion
Not All In
Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare [Joseph, Tiffany. 2025. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press] examines how racialized legal status hindered access to coverage and care for Latin American immigrants in Boston amid health and immigration policy shifts from 2012 to 2019. I respond to the three symposium contributors by addressing their critiques of the racialized legal status framework, describin…
Banished to the Homeland
Non-Combatant's Shell-Shock
This paper examines how the era between the world wars also produced conditions for a traumatization of gender. Judith Butler's concept of performative gender and Cathy Caruth's work on trauma provide the concepts needed to interrogate the psychological connections between gender and trauma. This connection also manifests itself physically, written on the body itself through illness or decline; the psychological becomes physical, negating any not…
Becoming Brazuca
We need a woman, we need a black woman’
In 1994, Amado Padilla used the phrase ‘cultural taxation’ to describe the extra burden of service responsibilities placed upon minority faculty members because of their racial or ethnic background. In this paper, we expand upon Padilla's work and introduce the concept of ‘identity taxation’ to encompass how other marginalised social identities (such as gender, race and gender, and sexual orientation) may result in additional non-academic service…
Why don't you get somebody new to do it?' Race and cultural taxation in the academy
There has been a marginal increase in the number of racial minorities among college and university faculty, yet current attacks on affirmative action and prevailing attitudes about the inferiority of non-white faculty place an extra burden on these individuals in academia. Amado Padilla (1994) introduced the concept of 'cultural taxation' to describe this burden where additional responsibilities are placed upon non-white faculty because of their …
My Life was Filled with Constant Anxiety
The Racial Incorporation of Latinos Into the U.S. Mainstream
For the last decade, scholars have pondered how the changing ethnoracial demographics of the United States would influence the country's racial, social, political, cultural, and economic landscape. Latinos are now the country's largest ethnoracial minority and the 2012 election provided an indication of just how significant this group will be for shaping the future of the United States. Scholars of race in particular have speculated how the ethni…
Banished to the Homeland
How does racial democracy exist in Brazil? Perceptions from Brazilians in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Gilberto Freyre conceptualized racial democracy to describe Brazil's non-racist and harmonious multiracial society in the early 1900s. I suggest there are three views for assessing racial democracy in scholarly literature: achieved Brazil is a multiracial non-racist society; oppressive Brazil is a racist society with strained interracial relations; and aspirational Brazil is a multiracial racist society that aspires to be non-racist. I then argue…
Culling the Masses
Excluded and Frozen Out
Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 extends public and private insurance to 32 million individuals in the USA, it expressly excludes unauthorised adult immigrants from participating in the federally-subsidised state health exchanges and the Medicaid expansion. In this article, we show that the ACA has deepened the ‘brightness’ of unauthorised immigrants’ symbolic and social exclusion within the US health care system via a significant bou…
Ethnoracial inequality and insurance coverage among Latino young adults
Previous research has demonstrated that Latino young adults are uninsured at higher rates relative to other ethnoracial groups. Recent implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased access to health insurance for young adults, in part by maintaining health coverage through their parents until age 26. This paper examines patterns of Latino young adults' insurance coverage during early ACA implementation by addressing three ques…
Still left out
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased healthcare access for many Americans. But, its exclusion of most noncitizens and imperfect state-level implementation stratified coverage by documentation status, place, income level, race, and ethnicity across the U.S.A. Drawing from the sociological literature on boundaries, this paper argues that these demographic boundaries facilitate de jure and de facto stratification for immigrants and low-incom…
Health care, immigrants, and minorities
By the twenty-first century, the number of people migrating across international borders had grown substantially, spurred by ongoing economic, political, and environmental change in the Global Sout
Framing Immigrants
Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship
Race, Phenotype, and Nationality in Brazil and the United States
In recent decades, there have been substantial developments in the sociologies of the body and race. However, race has been understudied in sociology of the body at the same time that the sociology of race has not often explored the influence of phenotypical differences on individuals’ experiences and outcomes. Using ethnographic data from interviews with seventy-three Brazilians in Governador Valadares, this chapter illustrates how race and phen…
Race on the Move
"Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address…
Double Consciousness in the 21st Century
In W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, he argued that the problem of the 20th century in the United States was the problem of the color line. Given that de facto and explicit racial discrimination persist, anti-immigrant rhetoric is intensifying, and legal status has become more salient, we argue Du Boisian theory remains relevant for understanding social and political cleavages in the 21st century United States. The intersection of race, ethnic…
Challenging federal exclusion
Reexamining racism, sexism, and identity taxation in the academy
Amid the 2020 COVID pandemic and officer-involved deaths of numerous Black Americans, US colleges and universities stated commitments to improve ethnoracial diversity and address structural racism.This type of diversityrelated work, which fell mostly upon faculty of colour, was not new, however.In 1994, Padilla coined the term "cultural taxation" to describe the disproportionate labour faculty of colour are expected to perform.Hirshfield and Jose…
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism
We would like to acknowledge the grant we received from the New Frontiers in Research Fund to undertake this research and collaboration. This work was funded through an Exploration Grant (1-51-48484) and is titled, “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”
Challenges to transforming narratives and seeing others
In Seeing Others, sociologist Michéle Lamont argues that the way to heal our divided world is to see and recognize everyone's collective humanity. To make this argument, she utilizes insights from her past research and incorporates new data from 180 interviews conducted with Hollywood creatives, activists, and young people from around the United States since 2019. Lamont's main finding is that recognizing everyone's worth and dignity are vital to…
Language Barriers and Healthcare Challenges for Immigrants with Limited English Proficiency After Health Reform in the United States
Amid increased immigration enforcement and the rollback of health reform in the United States, immigrants' healthcare access is at the center of these policy debates. Though previous research has examined the impact of language barriers on healthcare access, few studies have examined it since health policies have been implemented. This article explores how various language barriers undermined Latino/a immigrants and citizens' ability to access co…
The Documentation Status Continuum and the Impact of Categories on Healthcare Stratification
Public discourse on immigration and social services access has been contentious in immigrant-receiving countries. Scholars have examined immigrants' marginalization as a form of civic stratification, where boundaries based on documentation status affect immigrants' experiences and benefits granted by the state. This scholarship lacks a framework outlining existing documentation status categories and does not fully answer three research questions …
Health migrations
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