Robert Courtney Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620607 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Courtney Smith |
| PRENOMES | Robert Courtney |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH R C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2314-7227 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 304 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1939 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Doing Community and Institutionally Engaged Work and Promoting Immigrant Well-being While Building a Research Career
This article offers reflections on doing community and publicly engaged research and scholarly work that promotes immigrant well-being while developing a research career in academic institutions which do not usually recognize or reward such work. I draw on my own career (as the editors asked me to do), and hope the advice or examples are helpful, especially to younger scholars. I write as a scholar who was not from the immigrant communities with …
Will Daca Recipients Return to Their Birth Countries If Daca Is Ended
Executive Summary Will recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) leave the United States if a legal challenge succeeds in ending this important program? The fate of over 600,000 current DACA recipients may depend on answers to this question in one expert report and one online survey question, which a Texas District Court found to show “a quantifiable percentage” would leave. Had the District Court in its DACA ruling not credited…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Publicly engaged sociology seeks to use our research and work to engage stakeholders within and beyond the university to analyze and fight inequality or injustice, and to address other issues society faces. Sociologists who do such work help universities (and other institutions) keep their social contract to use our work to make society better. This Special Issue continues the Eastern Sociological Society's work on publicly engaged sociology, inc…
Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology1
This article is a version of Professor Smith's Presidential Address as delivered at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston, March 2022. Most sociologists go into the field hoping our work will help address the inequalities or injustices we study, but academic institutions and careers strongly guide most of our work away from the engagement needed to have such impacts. With others, I argue for changes in academic careers…
Disrupting the Traffic Stop–to-Deportation Pipeline
This article analyzes the traffic stop–to-deportation pipeline in New York State, how it harms children of immigrants, and how New York’s Greenlight Law seeks to disrupt it but has been hobbled by an implementation gap. It first establishes the phenomenon of the traffic stop–to-deportation pipeline by documenting how traffic stops are a key cause of deportations in New York State. Second, it analyzes how the pipeline harms (mostly US citizen) chi…
Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and the Future of the Republican Party and Conservatism in America
Ronald Reagan is one of the most consequential presidents of the twentieth century. He was a leader of the conservative movement that displaced the Republican Party’s liberal-moderate faction and established conservatism as the prevailing ideology of the Party and as an influential force in American politics. He is also viewed as an uncompromising, principled ideological purist who won the cold war, but also as a racist and white supremacist. The…
Presidential Responsiveness to Black Interests From Grant to Biden
The Biden administration is the most responsive to Black interests since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. This article places the administration's responsiveness in historical perspective by examining presidential responsiveness to Black interests, beginning with the presidency of Ulysses Grant, and focusing on the role of Black protest and the Black vote in activating responsiveness. After a brief discussion of theories of presidential power an…
Analytic autoethnography of familial and institutional social identity construction of My Dad with Alzheimer's
Transnational Localities
This chapter aims to overcome such trained incapacity in telling the story of the transnationalization of Ticuanense social and political life and the creation of community by Ticuanenses over the course of more than fifty years of migration to New York City. It analyzes the social construction of one transnational community and multiple identities of its members within specific regional, local, and historical contexts. The post-national model is…
African Americans and the Media
American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom
This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics. Through the use of two interrelated themes -- the idea of universal freedom and the concept of minority-majority coalitions -- the text demonstrates how the presence of Africans in the United States affected the founding of the Republic and its political i…
Don't Let the Illegals Vote!”
Robert Courtney Smith, “Don't Let the Illegals Vote!”: The Myths of Illegal Latino Voters and Voter Fraud in Contested Local Immigrant Integration, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 4, Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality (July 2017), pp. 148-175
What's a life worth? Ethnographic counterfactual analysis, undocumented status and sociological autopsy in a wrongful death lawsuit
This paper asks 'What is a life worth?' by analyzing the wrongful death lawsuit for Douglas Morales, an undocumented student who died in 2008 at 17 from brain injuries suffered playing football. The paper first examines how sociologists and New Jersey law monetarily value a child's life, especially when undocumented status would have decreased long-term earnings. Second, it uses ethnographic, counterfactual methods to do a 'sociological autopsy' …
American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom
This dynamic and comprehensive text from two nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics. Through the use of two interrelated themes -- the idea of universal freedom and the concept of minority-majority coalitions -- the text demonstrates how the presence of Africans in the United States affected the founding of the Republic and its politic…
Black Mexicans, Conjunctural Ethnicity, and Operating Identities
This article draws on more than 15 years of research to analyze "Black Mexicans," phenotypically "Mexican-looking" youth who identified as Black during adolescence, used this identity to become upwardly mobile, and then abandoned it in early adulthood. Black Mexicans are potentially iconic cases among emerging varieties of U.S. ethnic and racial life, given Mexicans' status as a key, usually negative, case in assimilation theory. Most such theory…
John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance
Conservatism and Racism, and Why in America They Are the Same
Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn
By analyzing the life course of an exceptionally successful Mexican student, Emmanuel of Brooklyn, this article interrogates current theories on the incorporation of immigrant youth, including “segmented assimilation.” The author explains Emmanuel's unlikely and exceptional achievement as the result of intrafamily dynamics, including his keeping of the immigrant bargain; extrafamily supports, including “first chance, fast track” programs for exce…
How and Why We Could Do Immigration Well, But Do It Badly
clusions, a position not articulated in book. Similarly, while a conservative Protes tant defense of restriction is presented, there is no corresponding, religiously grounded defense of liberalization. Those who already hold positions within immigration debate will likely remain unswayed. Taking a step back, what do these two books teach us about politics of immi gration and social scientists' ability to influ ence them? It is clear, from Swain's…
Contradictions of diasporic institutionalization in Mexican politics
This paper examines patterns and contradictions involved in the institutionalization of the relationship between Mexico and its diaspora, with special focus on the migrant vote for president from abroad in 2006. While migrants have made increasing, and increasingly successful, demands for political inclusion, and have succeeded in becoming part of Mexico's imagined political community, the institutionalization of their inclusion has been done in …
Narratives of Mexican American Women
Diasporic Memberships in Historical Perspective
This article compares the evolution of diaspora-sending state relations for Mexico, Italy, and more briefly, Poland during their peak periods of out migration. I argue that sending-state diaspora relations evolve through the state's changing relations with the global system, their domestic politics, and migrants’ ability to act politically with respect to the homeland. This research shows the state helping to create diasporic or transnational spa…
Migrant Membership as an Instituted Process
How should we conceptualize membership, citizenship and political community in a world where migrants and their home states increasingly maintain and cultivate their formal and informal ties? This study analyzes the extra-territorial conduct of Mexican politics and the emergence of new migrant membership practices and relations between migrants and home states. Standard globalist, transnationalist or citizenship theories cannot properly contextua…
Mexicans
Mexicanness” In New York Migrants Seek New Place In Old Racial Order
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert SmithRobert Smith teaches sociology at Barnard College. He is the author of Migration, Settlement and Transnational Life (forthcoming, 2002) and many articles on migration and transnational communities
Diasporic Memberships in Historical Perspective
This article compares the evolution of diaspora-sending state relations for Mexico, Italy, and more briefly, Poland during their peak periods of out migration. I argue that sending-state diaspora relations evolve through the state's changing relations with the global system, their domestic politics, and migrants’ ability to act politically with respect to the homeland. This research shows the state helping to create diasporic or transnational spa…
Migrant Membership as an Instituted Process
How should we conceptualize membership, citizenship and political community in a world where migrants and their home states increasingly maintain and cultivate their formal and informal ties? This study analyzes the extra-territorial conduct of Mexican politics and the emergence of new migrant membership practices and relations between migrants and home states. Standard globalist, transnationalist or citizenship theories cannot properly contextua…
Contradictions of diasporic institutionalization in Mexican politics
This paper examines patterns and contradictions involved in the institutionalization of the relationship between Mexico and its diaspora, with special focus on the migrant vote for president from abroad in 2006. While migrants have made increasing, and increasingly successful, demands for political inclusion, and have succeeded in becoming part of Mexico's imagined political community, the institutionalization of their inclusion has been done in …
Black Mexicans, Conjunctural Ethnicity, and Operating Identities
This article draws on more than 15 years of research to analyze "Black Mexicans," phenotypically "Mexican-looking" youth who identified as Black during adolescence, used this identity to become upwardly mobile, and then abandoned it in early adulthood. Black Mexicans are potentially iconic cases among emerging varieties of U.S. ethnic and racial life, given Mexicans' status as a key, usually negative, case in assimilation theory. Most such theory…
Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn
By analyzing the life course of an exceptionally successful Mexican student, Emmanuel of Brooklyn, this article interrogates current theories on the incorporation of immigrant youth, including “segmented assimilation.” The author explains Emmanuel's unlikely and exceptional achievement as the result of intrafamily dynamics, including his keeping of the immigrant bargain; extrafamily supports, including “first chance, fast track” programs for exce…
Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology1
This article is a version of Professor Smith's Presidential Address as delivered at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston, March 2022. Most sociologists go into the field hoping our work will help address the inequalities or injustices we study, but academic institutions and careers strongly guide most of our work away from the engagement needed to have such impacts. With others, I argue for changes in academic careers…
How Durable and New Is Transnational Life
Diaspora 9:2 2000 How Durable and New Is Transnational Life? Historical Retrieval through Local Comparison1 Robert C. Smith Barnard College Introduction Is transnational life among migrants "new," and, if so, how? How does a transnational perspective enable us to understand immigrants and immigration more deeply, both today and in the past? This article seeks to engage these questions through a comparative analysis of migration and related transn…
Black Power and the Transformation from Protest to Politics
In a retrospective examination of black power in 1977, Dianne Pinderhughes analyzed a sample of the speeches and writings of individuals and organizations that had been prominent in the development and articulation of the concept. She found that there was only a narrow area of common agreement on the elements of black power and that on close examination even in this narrow area the common elements were so vague and general to be meaningless as fa…
Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Journal Article Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't. By Robert C. Smith. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xiv, 203 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-2437-5. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-7914-2438-3.) Get access Tony Freyer Tony Freyer University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, …
What's a life worth? Ethnographic counterfactual analysis, undocumented status and sociological autopsy in a wrongful death lawsuit
This paper asks 'What is a life worth?' by analyzing the wrongful death lawsuit for Douglas Morales, an undocumented student who died in 2008 at 17 from brain injuries suffered playing football. The paper first examines how sociologists and New Jersey law monetarily value a child's life, especially when undocumented status would have decreased long-term earnings. Second, it uses ethnographic, counterfactual methods to do a 'sociological autopsy' …
Don't Let the Illegals Vote!”
Robert Courtney Smith, “Don't Let the Illegals Vote!”: The Myths of Illegal Latino Voters and Voter Fraud in Contested Local Immigrant Integration, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 4, Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality (July 2017), pp. 148-175
The Black Congressional Delegation
7F1IHE PURPOSE of this report is to present basic descriptive data on the black members of the United States House of Representatives. Re, search on blacks in Congress is just beginning and the scholarly work thus far has been devoted to either a tracing of the history of the Congressional Black Caucus, the organization of the black members of the House,1 or roll-call analysis to determine the Caucus' influence on congressional voting.2 Nothing s…
Disrupting the Traffic Stop–to-Deportation Pipeline
This article analyzes the traffic stop–to-deportation pipeline in New York State, how it harms children of immigrants, and how New York’s Greenlight Law seeks to disrupt it but has been hobbled by an implementation gap. It first establishes the phenomenon of the traffic stop–to-deportation pipeline by documenting how traffic stops are a key cause of deportations in New York State. Second, it analyzes how the pipeline harms (mostly US citizen) chi…
Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and the Future of the Republican Party and Conservatism in America
Ronald Reagan is one of the most consequential presidents of the twentieth century. He was a leader of the conservative movement that displaced the Republican Party’s liberal-moderate faction and established conservatism as the prevailing ideology of the Party and as an influential force in American politics. He is also viewed as an uncompromising, principled ideological purist who won the cold war, but also as a racist and white supremacist. The…
The Changing Shape of Urban Black Politics
The years between 1960 and 1970 constitute the critical period in the emergence of a mature urban black politics. Prior to this time, blacks in the American city were, through a variety of devices, excluded from full and equal participation in the urban political process. The developments of the 1960s represent the beginnings of the incorporation and institutionalization of blacks as constituent elements of the urban polity. This paper considers …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Publicly engaged sociology seeks to use our research and work to engage stakeholders within and beyond the university to analyze and fight inequality or injustice, and to address other issues society faces. Sociologists who do such work help universities (and other institutions) keep their social contract to use our work to make society better. This Special Issue continues the Eastern Sociological Society's work on publicly engaged sociology, inc…
Analytic autoethnography of familial and institutional social identity construction of My Dad with Alzheimer's
Servants of the People
Journal Article Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership. By Lea E. Williams. (New York: St. Martin's, 1996. xvi, 252 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-312-16372-X.) and We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era. By Robert C. Smith. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xx, 396 pp. Cloth, $46.50, ISBN 0-7914-3135-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7914-3136-3.) Get access Steven F. Lawson Steven F. Laws…
Recent Elections and Black Politics
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Meeting the National Needs for Minority Scholars and Scholarship
For a period of several years, a group of scholars has examined the status of minority scholars and scholarship in the United States. In 1987, an invitational conference on the status of minority faculty was sponsored by the Graduate School of the State University of New York at Stmnyhrook. Held at the Harrison Conference Center on Long Island, the participants included more than one hundred minority and nonminority faculty, administrators, and g…
"The 12 Prophets of Antonio Francisco Lisboa "O Aleijadinho
The Wood-Beach at Recife
The cutting and shipment of wood is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Brazilian trade with Portugal. The rich red dye produced from the tree called pau brasil or Brazil wood was esteemed so highly that at first it outweighed in importance all other products of the colony. Most historians agree that the very name of Brazil is derived from this wood. Guarded as a royal monopoly throughout the colonial period, the wood trade ranked wit…
Requena and the Japurá
Spain and Portugal during the eighteenth century made two attempts to establish official boundaries between their possessions in America. Through the treaties of 1750 and 1777 joint commissions were appointed by these powers to procede with the task of determining lines of demarcation, in the Amazon region as well as in other parts of the South American domain. Neither of these two undertakings was successful. In spite of the preliminary treaties…
The Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress
Report on the Section of History and Geography, Eighth American Scientific Congress
L'art portugais. Architecture-sculpture-peintureBoletim da Academia Nacional de Belas Artes
The Religious Architecture of New Mexico in the Colonial Period and Since the American Occupation
Um engenheiro francés no Brasil, com um prefacio do Professor Paul Arbousse-Bastide
Modern Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese Dictionary
Portuguese
Memorias e comunicacoes apresentadas ao Congresso do mundo portugues, Congresso luso-brasileiro de Historia, Congresso da historia da actividade cientifica portuguesa, Congresso colonial e Congresso n…
Memórias e comunicações apresentadas ao Congresso do mundo português, Congresso luso-brasüeiro de história, Congresso da historia da actividade científica portuguesa, Congresso colonial e Congresso na…
A Pioneer Teacher
Bibliografía de arte español y americano, 1936-1940
Requena and the Japurá
Spain and Portugal during the eighteenth century made two attempts to establish official boundaries between their possessions in America. Through the treaties of 1750 and 1777 joint commissions were appointed by these powers to procede with the task of determining lines of demarcation, in the Amazon region as well as in other parts of the South American domain. Neither of these two undertakings was successful. In spite of the preliminary treaties…
Spanish Educators Visit United States
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Las galerías de pintura de la Academia de San Carlos
Requena and the Japurá
Spain and Portugal during the eighteenth century made two attempts to establish official boundaries between their possessions in America. Through the treaties of 1750 and 1777 joint commissions were appointed by these powers to procede with the task of determining lines of demarcation, in the Amazon region as well as in other parts of the South American domain. Neither of these two undertakings was successful. In spite of the preliminary treaties…
Francisco Cabrera, miniaturista guatemalteco (1781-1845)
Padre Jesuino do Monte Carmelo
Camões e as artes plásticas. Subsídios para a iconografia camoneana
Relíquias da terra do ouro
Las piras funerarias en la historia y en el arte de Mexico
Díalogo sobre la historia de la pintura en Mexico
The Wood-Beach at Recife
The cutting and shipment of wood is one of the oldest and most important aspects of Brazilian trade with Portugal. The rich red dye produced from the tree called pau brasil or Brazil wood was esteemed so highly that at first it outweighed in importance all other products of the colony. Most historians agree that the very name of Brazil is derived from this wood. Guarded as a royal monopoly throughout the colonial period, the wood trade ranked wit…
Tres siglos de pintura vmezolana
Lo mexicano en las artes plásticas
Los hospitales antiguos de la Española
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