Carissa M Froyum
Biographic Data
| ID | 87606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carissa M Froyum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carissa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Froyum |
| SIGNATURE | FROYUM C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
They Are Just Like You and Me: Cultivating Volunteer Sympathy
This study demonstrates the centrality of emotion work, especially sympathizing with beneficiaries of help, to sustaining volunteerism. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with 42 volunteers and paid volunteer coordinators, it explains how volunteers cultivate sympathy, and thus commitment to helping, by framing beneficiaries as deserving. Volunteers constructed recipients as 'deserving' along three dimensions: neediness, blamelessness, and …
Leaving the street alone: Contesting street manhood as a gender project
This study examines the gender project at an after-school program for low-income black boys in which officials and workers contested street manhood as a legitimate form of masculinity. Acting street involves establishing respect and status through physical intimidation, usually when race- or class-disadvantaged boys lack other resources. For programmers and direct-care workers concerned about boys' well-being, changing the definition of manhood p…
For the betterment of kids who look like me: Professional Emotional Labour as a Racial Project
Emotional labour results from and contributes to systems of inequality. But research too often ignores the racial form, content, and implications of emotion work. This study uses racial formation theory's concept of 'racial project' to analyse the racial consequences of emotional labour in a workplace where whites prescribed deferential emotional labour and black youth workers internalized it. White administrators tasked black workers with conjur…
Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Constructing a Color Line in the Twenty-first Century
Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens
Making ‘good girls’: Sexual agency in the sexuality education of low-income black girls
Critics argue that abstinence-only programmes reinforce gender inequality when they contain discourses that equate being a 'good girl' with sexual restraint. Yet they too often overlook how racial and class inequalities shape discourses about girls' sexual agency. This ethnography extends gender scholarship by analysing the racialised, classed and gendered dynamics of an abstinence-only programme for low-income black girls. It finds that black ad…
The Reproduction of Inequalities Through Emotional Capital: The Case of Socializing Low-Income Black Girls
'At Least I'm Not Gay': Heterosexual Identity Making among Poor Black Teens
This ethnographic study examines the ways in which a group of American low-income Black teenagers construct affirming identities through heterosexuality. The youth undertake a number of strategies to create and protect their heterosexual identities, including adopting heterosexist ideologies, conflating heterosexuality with gender nonconformity, disassociating from gay-coded behaviors, and threatening nonconformists. These strategies allow girls …
The Reproduction of Inequalities Through Emotional Capital: The Case of Socializing Low-Income Black Girls
For the betterment of kids who look like me: Professional Emotional Labour as a Racial Project
Emotional labour results from and contributes to systems of inequality. But research too often ignores the racial form, content, and implications of emotion work. This study uses racial formation theory's concept of 'racial project' to analyse the racial consequences of emotional labour in a workplace where whites prescribed deferential emotional labour and black youth workers internalized it. White administrators tasked black workers with conjur…
They Are Just Like You and Me: Cultivating Volunteer Sympathy
This study demonstrates the centrality of emotion work, especially sympathizing with beneficiaries of help, to sustaining volunteerism. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with 42 volunteers and paid volunteer coordinators, it explains how volunteers cultivate sympathy, and thus commitment to helping, by framing beneficiaries as deserving. Volunteers constructed recipients as 'deserving' along three dimensions: neediness, blamelessness, and …
Leaving the street alone: Contesting street manhood as a gender project
This study examines the gender project at an after-school program for low-income black boys in which officials and workers contested street manhood as a legitimate form of masculinity. Acting street involves establishing respect and status through physical intimidation, usually when race- or class-disadvantaged boys lack other resources. For programmers and direct-care workers concerned about boys' well-being, changing the definition of manhood p…
'At Least I'm Not Gay': Heterosexual Identity Making among Poor Black Teens
This ethnographic study examines the ways in which a group of American low-income Black teenagers construct affirming identities through heterosexuality. The youth undertake a number of strategies to create and protect their heterosexual identities, including adopting heterosexist ideologies, conflating heterosexuality with gender nonconformity, disassociating from gay-coded behaviors, and threatening nonconformists. These strategies allow girls …
Making ‘good girls’: Sexual agency in the sexuality education of low-income black girls
Critics argue that abstinence-only programmes reinforce gender inequality when they contain discourses that equate being a 'good girl' with sexual restraint. Yet they too often overlook how racial and class inequalities shape discourses about girls' sexual agency. This ethnography extends gender scholarship by analysing the racialised, classed and gendered dynamics of an abstinence-only programme for low-income black girls. It finds that black ad…
The Reproduction of Inequalities Through Emotional Capital: The Case of Socializing Low-Income Black Girls
Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens
Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Constructing a Color Line in the Twenty-first Century
Leaving the street alone: Contesting street manhood as a gender project
This study examines the gender project at an after-school program for low-income black boys in which officials and workers contested street manhood as a legitimate form of masculinity. Acting street involves establishing respect and status through physical intimidation, usually when race- or class-disadvantaged boys lack other resources. For programmers and direct-care workers concerned about boys' well-being, changing the definition of manhood p…
For the betterment of kids who look like me: Professional Emotional Labour as a Racial Project
Emotional labour results from and contributes to systems of inequality. But research too often ignores the racial form, content, and implications of emotion work. This study uses racial formation theory's concept of 'racial project' to analyse the racial consequences of emotional labour in a workplace where whites prescribed deferential emotional labour and black youth workers internalized it. White administrators tasked black workers with conjur…
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
They Are Just Like You and Me: Cultivating Volunteer Sympathy
This study demonstrates the centrality of emotion work, especially sympathizing with beneficiaries of help, to sustaining volunteerism. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with 42 volunteers and paid volunteer coordinators, it explains how volunteers cultivate sympathy, and thus commitment to helping, by framing beneficiaries as deserving. Volunteers constructed recipients as 'deserving' along three dimensions: neediness, blamelessness, and …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Politics (3 works)