SAGE Journal Articles
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Journal Article 1: Lohmeier, C., & Pentzold, C. (2014). Making mediated memory work: Cuban-Americans, Miami media and the doings of diaspora memories. Media Culture Society, 36, 776–789.
Abstract: This article explores the memories of Cubans in Miami. This work examines the role of media in maintaining diasporic memories for the Cuban community.
Journal Article 2: Dorsey, M., & Díaz-Barriga, M. (2007). Senator Barack Obama and immigration reform. Journal of Black Studies, 38, 90–102.
Abstract: This article explores Senator Barack Obama's views on immigration reform, and details his history of support for bipartisan legislation to overhaul current laws and restrictions.
Journal Article 3: Romo, R. (2011). Between black and brown: Blaxican (Black-Mexican) multiracial identity in California. Journal of Black Studies, 42, 402–427.
Abstract: This article examines racial/ethnic formation, challenging the Black/White color line that grounds much racial discourse in the United States. Multi-racial identities are becoming significantly more common, however the ways that multi-racial people are categorized remains limited by older sociocultural formations. The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race/ethnicity in the United States and the influence of social interactions in shaping how Blaxicans develop their multiracial identities” (402).
Abstract: The author uses a feminist perspective to examine whether mobile phone technology is empowering for immigrant women, to discover whether Latina farm workers enjoy the same kinds of empowerments that communications technology has afforded other poor communities. Her findings show that “gender structures in the immigrant farm worker community have been reinforced by masculinity and femininity discourses. Mobile phones reinforce gender structures and patriarchal hierarchies by adapting them to women’s roles in the household and community” (72).
Abstract: This article tests the efficacy of the national-wide policy of employing ethnic police officers to police ethnic communities. Underlying this policy choice is the idea that such employment will enhance policing in ethnic communities due to a shared common ethnic identity and positive attitude towards the community. However, the findings of this study “document the varied and complex ways in which Latino police officers negotiate ethnic categorization, revealing three generalized identity patterns” (489), and ultimately refute the perspective that like will police like in a more positive fashion.
Journal Article 6: Agius Vallejo, J., & Lee, J. (2009). Brown picket fences: The immigrant narrative and ‘giving back’ among the Mexican-origin middle class. Ethnicities, 9, 5–34.
Abstract: This article looks at an important sociological concern: the extent to which the adult children of Latino immigrants – they specifically focus on middle-class Mexican immigrants-incorporate into the social structure of the US. Using a single aspect of incorporation – the extent to which they ‘give back’ to co-ethnics – the authors find a significant pattern of individuation among Mexican Americans who grew up in the middle class, detailing who they have moved away from the practices of giving that characterized their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. However, their respondents who grew up poor and achieved middle-class status in one generation continued to exhibit a collectivist orientation, and continued to ‘give back’ to poorer kin, co-ethnics, and the larger ethnic community.
Abstract: This article discusses immigrant activism intended to resist and derail Congressional policy-making in 2006. The author particularly focuses on the politics of speech, “contend[ing] their mass participation provided a symbolic interjection of humanity, actively voicing disobedience to the current and proposed laws as well as the civic and social expectations informing immigrants’ public interactions within the larger society” (580).
Journal Article 8: Bacon, D. (2008). Living under the trees. Contexts, 7, 50–58.
Abstract: This photo essay discusses the extreme poverty that many Mexicans are burdened with, particularly focusing on people intending to or already having accomplished migration from the state of Oaxaca. In particular, the author discusses the Living Under the Trees project, which “documents the experiences and conditions of indigenous farm worker communities. It focuses on social movements in indigenous communities and how indigenous culture helps communities survive and enjoy life. The project’s purpose is to win public support for policies to help those communities by putting a human face on conditions and providing a forum in which people speak for themselves” (50).
Journal Article 9: Brown, H. E. (2013). Race, legality, and the social policy consequences of anti-immigration mobilization. American Sociological Review, 78, 2–26.
Abstract: This article examines the how the dramatic rise in the U.S. Hispanic population, affects the development of American racial lines beyond the Black-White divide. This study uses a comparative analysis of welfare reforms in California and Arizona to examine how anti-Hispanic stereotypes affect social policy formation. Drawing on interviews, archival materials, and newspaper content analysis, findings include that animus toward Hispanics is mobilized through two collective action frames: a legality frame and a racial frame. The legality frame contributes to the discourse of demonizing illegal immigrants. Racial framing by White citizens uses explicit racial language labelling Hispanics as undeserving.
Abstract: The negotiation of identity for immigrants who are experiencing anti-immigrant sentiments is explored. This review outlines theoretical support for arguments presented that offers insight into nativist sentiments.