Jennifer L Pierce
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 75822 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jennifer L Pierce |
| PRENOMES | Jennifer L |
| SOBRENOME | Pierce |
| ASSINATURA | PIERCE J L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8407-7499 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 245 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
We Were Democracy Mad
In April 1968, two Berkeley campus unions—the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1695 representing clerical, technical, and professional workers, and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 1570 representing graduate students—held a work-stoppage and a teach-in on “campus racism” to honor the memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who had been tragically assassinated in Memphis. Inspired by…
Narrative Productions of Meanings
Alluvial fan depositional records from north and south-facing catchments in semi-arid montane terrain
Valley asymmetry reflects differences in landform evolution with aspect; however, few studies assess rates and timing of asymmetric erosion. In south-central Idaho, we combine alluvial fan volume reconstructions with radiocarbon deposit dating to compare the source-catchment normalized fan deposition rates of catchments incised into north (n=5) and south-facing (n=3) valleys, which differ during the late Holocene from 7.7 to 10.1 mm/ka, respectiv…
Feminism, First‐, Second‐, and Third‐Wave
The history of feminism in the West is typically divided into a “first wave,” a “second wave,” and a “third wave” to describe women's involvement in social movements that brought about dramatic transformations in their access to social, political, educational, and economic opportunities from the late nineteenth century to the present. This entry critically examines the “wave” metaphor as it has been used by academics and details the major theoret…
Sexuality and the Cities
The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, launched in 2003, was a collective devoted to documenting and interpreting the formation of queer identities and politics in the Twin Cities through the collection of oral histories, through other forms of archival and ethnographic research, and via community-engaged collaborative public projects. This chapter examines the project’s formation and history as well as the challenges of working in an interdi…
What Makes Queer Oral History Different
This essay asks whether queer oral history is different in light of recent interventions in queer theory, LGBTQ history, and oral history. It explores the intellectual genealogy of queer oral history in the research projects of some of its early practitioners. It also provides a close reading of Alessandro Portelli’s classic essay and considers its implications for a queer methodology, drawing from the work of recent scholarship in queer studies …
The History of Affirmative Action in the USA
This Teaching and Learning Guide is designed to accompany my Sociology Compass article on affirmative action. The sample syllabus is organized historically beginning with FDR's New Deal and the first use of the term affirmative action and ending with the most recent Supreme Court's deliberations on this policy. In doing so, it attends not only to the varied meanings and forms of affirmative action across time but also the different interest group…
Why Teaching About Race as a Social Construct Still Matters
On Seeing and Not Seeing Racism
On Seeing and Not Seeing Racism Jennifer L. Pierce (bio) The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism. By Nancy DiTomaso. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012. 431 pages. $42.50 (paper). Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind. By Osagie K. Obasogie. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 268 pages. $85.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). How Racism Takes Place. By George Lipsitz. Philadelphia: Temple Universi…
American Workplaces Since the Civil Rights Act
Holocene fire occurrence and alluvial responses at the leading edge of pinyon–juniper migration in the Northern Great Basin, USA
Fire and vegetation records at the City of Rocks National Reserve (CIRO), south-central Idaho, display the interaction of changing climate, fire and vegetation along the migrating front of single-leaf pinyon ( Pinus monophylla ) and Utah juniper ( Juniperus osteosperma ). Radiocarbon dating of alluvial charcoal reconstructed local fire occurrence and geomorphic response, and fossil woodrat ( Neotoma ) middens revealed pinyon and juniper arrivals.…
“Organization Man”
White Racism, Social Class, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
Among scholars in sociology and history, the backlash against affirmative action has been blamed on White working‐class Americans. What has received far less attention is the individual and collective institutional role(s) played by the White middle and upper middle‐class in backlash politics. Given that individuals in these social classes have far greater institutional power than White working‐class Americans, their beliefs and practices deserve…
Personal Narratives, Social Justice, and the Law
Race, Sex, Marriage, and the State
book to win so many major awards from so many different fields, but Pascoe's brilliant and fascinating study is that kind of book. It is historical in its over one-hundred-year sweep of laws banning interracial marriage in the United States, with sophisticated read ings of legal cases in various regions across the country. At the same time, Pascoe's anal ysis is richly informed by sociological, anthropological, and feminist theories of race-makin…
The Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project
Feminist Questions for Ethnographies of Work
In the 1970s, feminist scholars launched a cri tique of the androcentric bias in mainstream sociological research. Women's lives in the of were for the most part invisible. Responding to a discipline that focused predominantly on the public, offi cial, and highly visible roles of men, scholars such as Dorothy Smith and others called for a sociology for women (Smith 1974; Mill man and Kanter 1975). Consequently, areas that were not traditionally d…
The Fifth Freedom
Still Killing Mockingbirds
Through a narrative analysis of movies confronting issues of race and racism in the post-civil rights era, we suggest that the movie To Kill a Mockingbird ushered in a new genre for movies about race which presented an image of a white male hero, or perhaps savior, for the black community. We suggest that this genre outlasted the era of the Civil Rights Movement and continues to impact popular cultural discourses about race in post-civil rights A…
Farewell to the organization man
Utilizing data from two ethnographic case studies, one of high-end service workers in a powerful corporate law firm (paralegals) and another of low-end service workers in a small family-run restaurant (food servers), this article presents a comparative analysis of the consequences of the transformation of the US economy and accompanying changes in the culture(s) of work for women and men and specifically of the meanings of loyalty in our contempo…
Product Review
Les émotions au travail
Malgré le caractère invisible des émotions au travail chez les assistantes juridiques, cette dimension du travail présente des conséquences importantes pour la reproduction du procès de travail dans les grandes firmes bureaucratiques et pour le bien-être psychologique des assistantes juridiques. Ces dernières ont pour fonction de soutenir la stabilité émotive des avocats pour lesquels elles travaillent, à travers un traitement respectueux et atte…
Special Issue Introduction
Racing for Innocence
Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back
Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in Nuclear and Extended Families
We examine the relationship between number of siblings and educational attainment for three groups in Israel: Ashkenazi Jews, Oriental Jews, and Moslem Arabs. For both Jewish groups number of siblings has a negative effect on educational attainment. However, this pattern is not replicated for Moslems whose social organization is based largely on the extended family and the patrilineage (the hamula). Among Moslems the extended family plays an acti…
Racing for Innocence
Emotional Labor Among Paralegals
Despite the invisibility of emotional labor among paralegals, this dimension of work has significant consequences for the reproduction of the labor process in the large bureaucratic firm and for the psychological well-being of paralegals. These legal workers function to support and maintain the emotional stability of the lawyers for whom they work through deferential treatment and caretaking. By affirming the status of lawyers, paralegals also re…
The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success Among Latinas and Latinos in College
This article considers how race and gender shape latina and Latino paths to school success in college. A purposive sample of successful high school and college students was selected. Through interviews, fieldwork, and school records, the researchers find that Latinas navigate successfully through negative stereotypes by maintaining positive definitions of themselves and by emphasizing their group membership as Latina. Young Latino men also see th…
Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality
Farewell to the organization man
Utilizing data from two ethnographic case studies, one of high-end service workers in a powerful corporate law firm (paralegals) and another of low-end service workers in a small family-run restaurant (food servers), this article presents a comparative analysis of the consequences of the transformation of the US economy and accompanying changes in the culture(s) of work for women and men and specifically of the meanings of loyalty in our contempo…
From Scholarship Girls to Scholarship Women
This article explores the dilemmas graduate education poses for women of working-class origin who come from different ethnic and racial backgrounds. It proceeds in a chronological narrative using examples from the authors' personal experiences to make general points about how the intricate web of class, race, and gender relations shaped their experiences in higher education. Both women—Cuádraz, a Chicana, and Pierce, a white woman—struggle with t…
What Makes Queer Oral History Different
This essay asks whether queer oral history is different in light of recent interventions in queer theory, LGBTQ history, and oral history. It explores the intellectual genealogy of queer oral history in the research projects of some of its early practitioners. It also provides a close reading of Alessandro Portelli’s classic essay and considers its implications for a queer methodology, drawing from the work of recent scholarship in queer studies …
Les émotions au travail
Malgré le caractère invisible des émotions au travail chez les assistantes juridiques, cette dimension du travail présente des conséquences importantes pour la reproduction du procès de travail dans les grandes firmes bureaucratiques et pour le bien-être psychologique des assistantes juridiques. Ces dernières ont pour fonction de soutenir la stabilité émotive des avocats pour lesquels elles travaillent, à travers un traitement respectueux et atte…
Special Issue Introduction
Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back
Narrative Productions of Meanings
White Racism, Social Class, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action
Among scholars in sociology and history, the backlash against affirmative action has been blamed on White working‐class Americans. What has received far less attention is the individual and collective institutional role(s) played by the White middle and upper middle‐class in backlash politics. Given that individuals in these social classes have far greater institutional power than White working‐class Americans, their beliefs and practices deserve…
Personal Narratives, Social Justice, and the Law
Still Killing Mockingbirds
Through a narrative analysis of movies confronting issues of race and racism in the post-civil rights era, we suggest that the movie To Kill a Mockingbird ushered in a new genre for movies about race which presented an image of a white male hero, or perhaps savior, for the black community. We suggest that this genre outlasted the era of the Civil Rights Movement and continues to impact popular cultural discourses about race in post-civil rights A…
New Scholarship on Race, Class, and Gender
From the margins, we find ourselves well positioned to tell “other stories“—life histories, traditions, and cultural myths which typically go unheard in dominant society. As illustrated in the lead article, “A Pattern of Possibility: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior,” by Thelma J. Shinn, such stories are “meronymic”—mero from the Greek meaning “part”—because our unique social location allows us to see beyond the dominant mythos and tell “othe…
The History of Affirmative Action in the USA
This Teaching and Learning Guide is designed to accompany my Sociology Compass article on affirmative action. The sample syllabus is organized historically beginning with FDR's New Deal and the first use of the term affirmative action and ending with the most recent Supreme Court's deliberations on this policy. In doing so, it attends not only to the varied meanings and forms of affirmative action across time but also the different interest group…
Why Teaching About Race as a Social Construct Still Matters
The relation between emotion work and hysteria
(1989). The relation between emotion work and hysteria: A feminist reinterpretation of Freud's Studies on Hysteria. Women's Studies: Vol. 16, No. 3-4, pp. 255-270
Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in Nuclear and Extended Families
We examine the relationship between number of siblings and educational attainment for three groups in Israel: Ashkenazi Jews, Oriental Jews, and Moslem Arabs. For both Jewish groups number of siblings has a negative effect on educational attainment. However, this pattern is not replicated for Moslems whose social organization is based largely on the extended family and the patrilineage (the hamula). Among Moslems the extended family plays an acti…
Chicana/o Family Structure and Gender Personality
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition
This text is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and the unconscious in understanding issues about the self and self-identity, ideology and power, sexual difference and gender. The second e…
New Scholarship on Race, Class, and Gender
From the margins, we find ourselves well positioned to tell “other stories“—life histories, traditions, and cultural myths which typically go unheard in dominant society. As illustrated in the lead article, “A Pattern of Possibility: Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior,” by Thelma J. Shinn, such stories are “meronymic”—mero from the Greek meaning “part”—because our unique social location allows us to see beyond the dominant mythos and tell “othe…
From Scholarship Girls to Scholarship Women
This article explores the dilemmas graduate education poses for women of working-class origin who come from different ethnic and racial backgrounds. It proceeds in a chronological narrative using examples from the authors' personal experiences to make general points about how the intricate web of class, race, and gender relations shaped their experiences in higher education. Both women—Cuádraz, a Chicana, and Pierce, a white woman—struggle with t…
Selected Readings On Race, Class, and Gender
Circles and Settings
Gender Trials
This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals. Working as a paralegal, Pierce did ethnographic research in two law offices, and her depiction of the legal world is quite un…
Gender Trials
Engendering Motherhood
Gender Trials
Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services
Cause Lawyering
Emotional Labor Among Paralegals
Despite the invisibility of emotional labor among paralegals, this dimension of work has significant consequences for the reproduction of the labor process in the large bureaucratic firm and for the psychological well-being of paralegals. These legal workers function to support and maintain the emotional stability of the lawyers for whom they work through deferential treatment and caretaking. By affirming the status of lawyers, paralegals also re…
Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality
Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat
Drawing on surveys and interviews with almost 300 female military personnel, Melissa Herbert explores how women's everyday actions, such as choice of uniform, hobby, or social activity, involve the creation and re-creation of what it means to be a woman, and particularly a woman soldier. Do women feel pressured to be masculine, to convey that they are not a threat to men's jobs or status and to avoid being perceived as lesbians? She also examines…
Legal Advocacy
Legal Advocacy describes lawyers and nonlawyer advocates at work in four different legal settings: unemployment compensation claims appeals, Social Security disability appeals, state tax appeals, and labor grievance arbitrations. The analysis shows clearly that nonlawyers can be effective advocates and, in some situations, more effective than many lawyers. Combining an examination of case outcomes with a systematic observation of advocates in the…
Manufacturing Consent" in the "New" Global Economy
The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success Among Latinas and Latinos in College
This article considers how race and gender shape latina and Latino paths to school success in college. A purposive sample of successful high school and college students was selected. Through interviews, fieldwork, and school records, the researchers find that Latinas navigate successfully through negative stereotypes by maintaining positive definitions of themselves and by emphasizing their group membership as Latina. Young Latino men also see th…
Les émotions au travail
Malgré le caractère invisible des émotions au travail chez les assistantes juridiques, cette dimension du travail présente des conséquences importantes pour la reproduction du procès de travail dans les grandes firmes bureaucratiques et pour le bien-être psychologique des assistantes juridiques. Ces dernières ont pour fonction de soutenir la stabilité émotive des avocats pour lesquels elles travaillent, à travers un traitement respectueux et atte…
Special Issue Introduction
Racing for Innocence
Traveling from Feminism to Mainstream Sociology and Back
Product Review
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