Talking back to controlling images

Latinos’ changing responses to racism over the life course

Bibliographic Data

ID7284385
AuthorsJ M Vasquez (0000-0002-5948-4244, University of Oregon, corresponding author), Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Kathryn Norton-Smith (0000-0002-0482-028X, University of Oregon)
Year2016
Volume40
Issue6
Pages912-930
Publication date2016-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1201583
OpenAlexW2460766363
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited42

Controlling images' are central to the reproduction of racial, class, and gender inequality, yet there is a dearth of knowledge pertaining to Latinos. Drawing from sixty-two in-depth, life history interviews with Latino men, we ask: How do controlling images of Latinos as gang members and sports athletes impose constraints and channel emotions? How do Latinos respond to these images? We document how institutions and people deploying controlling images blockade access to education and upward mobility. We find that life course stage shapes Latinos' responses to this imagery. In their youth, Latino respondents used emotional strategies to resist racial subjugation. As adults, respondents resisted racist controlling images through leadership activities in the professional realm. Since adults possess more social power than youth, adults were better equipped to engage in leadership endeavours as resistance as compared to youth who, constrained by age, predominately utilized emotional resistance strategies

Course (navigation · Life course approach · Racial bias · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology

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