J Torkelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 65703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Torkelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Torkelson |
| SIGNATURE | TORKELSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4732-5948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping and assessing racial schema in the United States
This paper applies correlational class analysis (CCA) to operationalize newer multidimensional theories of American race and racism. CCA generates three racial schematic “classes”: “traditional racialism”, “racial realism”, and “personalized multiculturalism”. These schemas are defined not by specific attitudes but underlying cognitive and cultural patterns that organize how race is apprehended. “Traditional racialism” is ordered relatively less …
The Racialized American Dream
The American Dream has long been understood as a “shorthand summary of a nation’s collective aspirations” (Hauhart 2015:65). What determines optimism about the Dream? This paper uses nationally representative data collected at a critical historical juncture to advance research which has connected the American Dream to America’s racial history. We find faith in the American Dream was racialized into the 21st-Century, both in the sense that our dat…
Basketball in the Northland
This article utilizes 27 in-depth interviews to explore the socio-cultural position, surrounding racial politics, and local economy of youth basketball in the somewhat novel setting of Northland—a mid-sized Midwestern city where hockey dominates the sporting landscape, indoor basketball facilities are relatively sparse, and snow coverage that frequently lasts more than half the calendar year hampers outdoor play. Narratives are primarily gathered…
The sociology of white America
Torkelson, J., & Hartmann, D. (2021). The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans. Sociology Compass, e12932. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12932 A new era of polarization, identity awareness, and emboldened supremacist movements has focused renewed attention on the cultural orientations and political preferences of white Americans, as well as the boundaries of whiteness itself. Although the shapes of white America have l…
An older age colored by youth
This article uses 14 in-depth interviews with individuals who felt involved with and were young during what is commonly known as ‘the Sixties’ in America to explore the potential relevance of youth-generated boundaries for now even older age. Analyzed data are focused upon informants’ subjective identifications and life course understandings as among a specific, though highly relevant section of the first generation to have now lived more complet…
The heart of whiteness
From the nation's first non‐white President, to prevalent narratives of demographic change, a surging reactionary Right and emerging social awareness of white identity, the social context in which white Americans relate to whiteness and white privilege has changed since the early 1990s foundations of whiteness studies. In this article we review work on white Americans and whiteness generally to grapple with their (dis)positions within, and provid…
Caste, Race, and Abjection
This article discusses continuities between the discourse of caste in ancient India, the racialization constitutive of the Enlightenment, and a similarly exclusionary, overdetermined conception of worthlessness—the lazy, immoral, deviant minorities—evident in contemporary racism as much as in the abandonment of a global underclass. We argue that the negative marking of a social condition or group as inferior and subhuman (on all kinds of grounds,…
The Racialization of Ethnicity
In his landmark work, Richard Alba predicted that white ethnicity would fade into its twilight in the twenty-first century. Where direct inquiries into American white ethnicity have been scant since the millennium's turn, the authors use recently collected (2014), nationally representative survey data to systematically assess "postmillennial" white ethnic identification. In particular, the authors explore the prevalence of whites identifying with…
Seeing (Transitions to) Adulthood in Youth (Sub)cultural Studies Through the Eyes of Former Straightedge Adherents
This article uses forty-four face-to-face interviews with individuals who formerly identified with straightedge-a clean-living, mostly youth-based (sub)culture-to explore the possible role chosen youth cultural identities play in adult transition, as well as extend recent work on aging and youth scenes by more deeply engaging both 'subjective adulthood' and the retrospective accounts of 'ex' members. Data show interviewees developing (paths to) s…
A Queer Vision of Emerging Adulthood
Life After (Straightedge) Subculture
White ethnicity in twenty-first-century America
The 1980s and early 1990s witnessed a great deal of research on white ethnicity. Yet since this time, few systematic empirical studies of white ethnicity have emerged. This paper uses data from a recent nationally representative survey of Americans to (re)assess white ethnicity in the twenty-first century. Three primary areas are explored: (1) the pervasiveness and salience of ethnic claims among white Americans; (2) the social and demographic ch…
White ethnicity in twenty-first-century America
The 1980s and early 1990s witnessed a great deal of research on white ethnicity. Yet since this time, few systematic empirical studies of white ethnicity have emerged. This paper uses data from a recent nationally representative survey of Americans to (re)assess white ethnicity in the twenty-first century. Three primary areas are explored: (1) the pervasiveness and salience of ethnic claims among white Americans; (2) the social and demographic ch…
A Queer Vision of Emerging Adulthood
The heart of whiteness
From the nation's first non‐white President, to prevalent narratives of demographic change, a surging reactionary Right and emerging social awareness of white identity, the social context in which white Americans relate to whiteness and white privilege has changed since the early 1990s foundations of whiteness studies. In this article we review work on white Americans and whiteness generally to grapple with their (dis)positions within, and provid…
Life After (Straightedge) Subculture
Caste, Race, and Abjection
This article discusses continuities between the discourse of caste in ancient India, the racialization constitutive of the Enlightenment, and a similarly exclusionary, overdetermined conception of worthlessness—the lazy, immoral, deviant minorities—evident in contemporary racism as much as in the abandonment of a global underclass. We argue that the negative marking of a social condition or group as inferior and subhuman (on all kinds of grounds,…
The Racialization of Ethnicity
In his landmark work, Richard Alba predicted that white ethnicity would fade into its twilight in the twenty-first century. Where direct inquiries into American white ethnicity have been scant since the millennium's turn, the authors use recently collected (2014), nationally representative survey data to systematically assess "postmillennial" white ethnic identification. In particular, the authors explore the prevalence of whites identifying with…
Life After (Straightedge) Subculture
White ethnicity in twenty-first-century America
The 1980s and early 1990s witnessed a great deal of research on white ethnicity. Yet since this time, few systematic empirical studies of white ethnicity have emerged. This paper uses data from a recent nationally representative survey of Americans to (re)assess white ethnicity in the twenty-first century. Three primary areas are explored: (1) the pervasiveness and salience of ethnic claims among white Americans; (2) the social and demographic ch…
A Queer Vision of Emerging Adulthood
Seeing (Transitions to) Adulthood in Youth (Sub)cultural Studies Through the Eyes of Former Straightedge Adherents
This article uses forty-four face-to-face interviews with individuals who formerly identified with straightedge-a clean-living, mostly youth-based (sub)culture-to explore the possible role chosen youth cultural identities play in adult transition, as well as extend recent work on aging and youth scenes by more deeply engaging both 'subjective adulthood' and the retrospective accounts of 'ex' members. Data show interviewees developing (paths to) s…
Caste, Race, and Abjection
This article discusses continuities between the discourse of caste in ancient India, the racialization constitutive of the Enlightenment, and a similarly exclusionary, overdetermined conception of worthlessness—the lazy, immoral, deviant minorities—evident in contemporary racism as much as in the abandonment of a global underclass. We argue that the negative marking of a social condition or group as inferior and subhuman (on all kinds of grounds,…
The Racialization of Ethnicity
In his landmark work, Richard Alba predicted that white ethnicity would fade into its twilight in the twenty-first century. Where direct inquiries into American white ethnicity have been scant since the millennium's turn, the authors use recently collected (2014), nationally representative survey data to systematically assess "postmillennial" white ethnic identification. In particular, the authors explore the prevalence of whites identifying with…
The heart of whiteness
From the nation's first non‐white President, to prevalent narratives of demographic change, a surging reactionary Right and emerging social awareness of white identity, the social context in which white Americans relate to whiteness and white privilege has changed since the early 1990s foundations of whiteness studies. In this article we review work on white Americans and whiteness generally to grapple with their (dis)positions within, and provid…
The sociology of white America
Torkelson, J., & Hartmann, D. (2021). The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans. Sociology Compass, e12932. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12932 A new era of polarization, identity awareness, and emboldened supremacist movements has focused renewed attention on the cultural orientations and political preferences of white Americans, as well as the boundaries of whiteness itself. Although the shapes of white America have l…
An older age colored by youth
This article uses 14 in-depth interviews with individuals who felt involved with and were young during what is commonly known as ‘the Sixties’ in America to explore the potential relevance of youth-generated boundaries for now even older age. Analyzed data are focused upon informants’ subjective identifications and life course understandings as among a specific, though highly relevant section of the first generation to have now lived more complet…
Basketball in the Northland
This article utilizes 27 in-depth interviews to explore the socio-cultural position, surrounding racial politics, and local economy of youth basketball in the somewhat novel setting of Northland—a mid-sized Midwestern city where hockey dominates the sporting landscape, indoor basketball facilities are relatively sparse, and snow coverage that frequently lasts more than half the calendar year hampers outdoor play. Narratives are primarily gathered…
The Racialized American Dream
The American Dream has long been understood as a “shorthand summary of a nation’s collective aspirations” (Hauhart 2015:65). What determines optimism about the Dream? This paper uses nationally representative data collected at a critical historical juncture to advance research which has connected the American Dream to America’s racial history. We find faith in the American Dream was racialized into the 21st-Century, both in the sense that our dat…
Mapping and assessing racial schema in the United States
This paper applies correlational class analysis (CCA) to operationalize newer multidimensional theories of American race and racism. CCA generates three racial schematic “classes”: “traditional racialism”, “racial realism”, and “personalized multiculturalism”. These schemas are defined not by specific attitudes but underlying cognitive and cultural patterns that organize how race is apprehended. “Traditional racialism” is ordered relatively less …
Gender Studies (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (5 works) · Racism (5 works)