C R Melcher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 43457 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C R Melcher |
| PRENOMES | C R |
| SOBRENOME | Melcher |
| ASSINATURA | MELCHER C R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loyola University New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3952-6600 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Racialized Perceptions of Cities and the Attitudes of White Americans
Over the past eight decades, scholarship has demonstrated that racial attitudes are shaped by local demographic contexts. While this literature offers a sophisticated account of how interactions with proximate space structure racial attitudes, little is known about the impact of racialized perceptions of non-proximate spaces. This paper examines how racialized perceptions of distant cities influence perceptions of racial threat and policy prefere…
Class, the welfare state, and redistributive attitudes
What Do American Socialists Really Believe? Polarization, Ideology, and the Problem of Socialist Identifiers
A growing body of evidence suggests an increase in ideological and partisan polarization among Americans. At the same time, public opinion polls have found increasing support for socialism and anti-capitalist attitudes. The polarization literature, however, has not evolved to take these latter findings into account. Polarization is assumed to occur within the context of the classic liberal-conservative/Democrat-Republican dualities. Since sociali…
The Centrality of the Workplace and Class Consciousness in the US South
The popular and scholarly imagination considers Americans—especially those from the US South—to be averse to working-class politics. The South, in particular, is regarded as having especially low levels of class consciousness, hopelessly mired in racist or racialized ideologies which effectively eliminate the possibility of working-class solidarity. This article problematizes these conclusions by presenting the results of a series of studies cond…
Black Lives Matter and the Changing Sociological Canon
This article analyzes 764 syllabi spanning 2012 to 2023 to illustrate how, why, and when the sociological canon evolves. It is shown that in terms of frequency of assignment, W. E. B. Du Bois has clearly entered the sociological canon, overtaking both Weber and Durkheim. The timing of these changes also suggests that Du Bois’s addition to the canon, and the increased assignment of scholars of color in general, is largely a reaction to the various…
Investigating the Origins of Status Threat among White Americans
In the last decade and a half, the United States has seen a rise in right-wing nationalism. Status threat provides a compelling explanation as to why. As white Americans see changing demographics, more diverse imagery in American leadership, and increased interdependence globally, they fear that they are losing “their” country. Scholars, however, often see status threat as primarily symbolic rather than material. We argue that material concerns a…
Economic Self-Interest and Americans’ Redistributive, Class, and Racial Attitudes
Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans
The two dominant paradigms in the study of white Americans’ racial attitudes—symbolic racism and group position theory—while fundamentally differing with regard to theoretical orientations and causal emphases, concur in their rejection of individual-level economic circumstances—typically operationalized through either conventional measures of class or direct racial threats to whites’ personal lives—as a meaningful determinant of whites’ racial at…
The political economy of “White Identity Politics”
This article challenges the prevailing contention that economic self-interest does not affect public attitudes toward immigration. Through an in-depth re-analysis of the data and findings of Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics (2019), it is argued, first, that a number of variables that are characterized as status-based or sociotropic can plausibly be interpreted as measuring economic self-interest. Second, and more importantly, it is argued…
Who’s Afraid of 1619
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
This article identifies and systemically analyzes a 'core assumption' of WEB Du Bois's social and political thought: the assumption that class-based, interracial cooperation among white and Black workers is extremely unlikely, if not totally impossible. It is argued that this assumption undergirds and informs most of Du Bois's mature scholarship, serving as the theoretical grounding for his condemnation of the large-scale attempts to organize wor…
The Myth of Section 7(a)
In this article, the authors look at the supposed causal role of progressive labor legislation on union organizing. As an extension of the Wagner Act debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the authors argue—contrary to the accepted wisdom of virtually all established scholarship—that “progressive” labor legislation is not generally the impetus for worker organization, a necessary prerequisite without which mass unionization would be impossibl…
Economic Self-Interest and Americans’ Redistributive, Class, and Racial Attitudes
Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans
The two dominant paradigms in the study of white Americans’ racial attitudes—symbolic racism and group position theory—while fundamentally differing with regard to theoretical orientations and causal emphases, concur in their rejection of individual-level economic circumstances—typically operationalized through either conventional measures of class or direct racial threats to whites’ personal lives—as a meaningful determinant of whites’ racial at…
Black Lives Matter and the Changing Sociological Canon
This article analyzes 764 syllabi spanning 2012 to 2023 to illustrate how, why, and when the sociological canon evolves. It is shown that in terms of frequency of assignment, W. E. B. Du Bois has clearly entered the sociological canon, overtaking both Weber and Durkheim. The timing of these changes also suggests that Du Bois’s addition to the canon, and the increased assignment of scholars of color in general, is largely a reaction to the various…
The Centrality of the Workplace and Class Consciousness in the US South
The popular and scholarly imagination considers Americans—especially those from the US South—to be averse to working-class politics. The South, in particular, is regarded as having especially low levels of class consciousness, hopelessly mired in racist or racialized ideologies which effectively eliminate the possibility of working-class solidarity. This article problematizes these conclusions by presenting the results of a series of studies cond…
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
This article identifies and systemically analyzes a 'core assumption' of WEB Du Bois's social and political thought: the assumption that class-based, interracial cooperation among white and Black workers is extremely unlikely, if not totally impossible. It is argued that this assumption undergirds and informs most of Du Bois's mature scholarship, serving as the theoretical grounding for his condemnation of the large-scale attempts to organize wor…
The Myth of Section 7(a)
In this article, the authors look at the supposed causal role of progressive labor legislation on union organizing. As an extension of the Wagner Act debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the authors argue—contrary to the accepted wisdom of virtually all established scholarship—that “progressive” labor legislation is not generally the impetus for worker organization, a necessary prerequisite without which mass unionization would be impossibl…
The Myth of Section 7(a)
In this article, the authors look at the supposed causal role of progressive labor legislation on union organizing. As an extension of the Wagner Act debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the authors argue—contrary to the accepted wisdom of virtually all established scholarship—that “progressive” labor legislation is not generally the impetus for worker organization, a necessary prerequisite without which mass unionization would be impossibl…
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
This article identifies and systemically analyzes a 'core assumption' of WEB Du Bois's social and political thought: the assumption that class-based, interracial cooperation among white and Black workers is extremely unlikely, if not totally impossible. It is argued that this assumption undergirds and informs most of Du Bois's mature scholarship, serving as the theoretical grounding for his condemnation of the large-scale attempts to organize wor…
The political economy of “White Identity Politics”
This article challenges the prevailing contention that economic self-interest does not affect public attitudes toward immigration. Through an in-depth re-analysis of the data and findings of Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics (2019), it is argued, first, that a number of variables that are characterized as status-based or sociotropic can plausibly be interpreted as measuring economic self-interest. Second, and more importantly, it is argued…
Who’s Afraid of 1619
Economic Self-Interest and Americans’ Redistributive, Class, and Racial Attitudes
Economic Insecurity and the Racial Attitudes of White Americans
The two dominant paradigms in the study of white Americans’ racial attitudes—symbolic racism and group position theory—while fundamentally differing with regard to theoretical orientations and causal emphases, concur in their rejection of individual-level economic circumstances—typically operationalized through either conventional measures of class or direct racial threats to whites’ personal lives—as a meaningful determinant of whites’ racial at…
The Centrality of the Workplace and Class Consciousness in the US South
The popular and scholarly imagination considers Americans—especially those from the US South—to be averse to working-class politics. The South, in particular, is regarded as having especially low levels of class consciousness, hopelessly mired in racist or racialized ideologies which effectively eliminate the possibility of working-class solidarity. This article problematizes these conclusions by presenting the results of a series of studies cond…
Black Lives Matter and the Changing Sociological Canon
This article analyzes 764 syllabi spanning 2012 to 2023 to illustrate how, why, and when the sociological canon evolves. It is shown that in terms of frequency of assignment, W. E. B. Du Bois has clearly entered the sociological canon, overtaking both Weber and Durkheim. The timing of these changes also suggests that Du Bois’s addition to the canon, and the increased assignment of scholars of color in general, is largely a reaction to the various…
Investigating the Origins of Status Threat among White Americans
In the last decade and a half, the United States has seen a rise in right-wing nationalism. Status threat provides a compelling explanation as to why. As white Americans see changing demographics, more diverse imagery in American leadership, and increased interdependence globally, they fear that they are losing “their” country. Scholars, however, often see status threat as primarily symbolic rather than material. We argue that material concerns a…
Class, the welfare state, and redistributive attitudes
What Do American Socialists Really Believe? Polarization, Ideology, and the Problem of Socialist Identifiers
A growing body of evidence suggests an increase in ideological and partisan polarization among Americans. At the same time, public opinion polls have found increasing support for socialism and anti-capitalist attitudes. The polarization literature, however, has not evolved to take these latter findings into account. Polarization is assumed to occur within the context of the classic liberal-conservative/Democrat-Republican dualities. Since sociali…
Racialized Perceptions of Cities and the Attitudes of White Americans
Over the past eight decades, scholarship has demonstrated that racial attitudes are shaped by local demographic contexts. While this literature offers a sophisticated account of how interactions with proximate space structure racial attitudes, little is known about the impact of racialized perceptions of non-proximate spaces. This paper examines how racialized perceptions of distant cities influence perceptions of racial threat and policy prefere…
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