Race and Gender Relations among Prison Workers

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Racial Conflicts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Prison Community ◽  
Traditional Competition

This article describes changes in the traditional guard cultures, which have resulted through Affirmative Action requirements of the State. These changes have given new meanings to traditional competition and divisions among the workers. Racial conflicts often parallel those within the prisoner culture. Gender conflicts reflect a conservative bias found in other blue collar occupations. These conflicts shape a new culture of the correctional worker and further contribute to the uneasy social order of the prison community.

Race and Gender Relations in Developmental Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Elisabete Figueroa dos Santos ◽  
Clélia Rosane dos Santos Prestes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Race and Gender Relations in Rituals of Blood

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Marino A. Bruce ◽  
Orlando Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Bioethical Matriarchy: Race, Gender, and the Gift in Genomic Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
James Doucet-Battle
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Status Inequality ◽  
And Gender

Abstract: The 2013 sequencing of the epigenome and genome from Henrietta Lacks’s HeLa cell line illuminates the bioethical intersections of genomics, race, and gender. Subsequent announcements by Francis Collins and reports in the scientific media referring to Henrietta Lacks as a matriarch, expose the missing political and resource allocations alluded to by the quasi-viral matriarchal designation, an assemblage I term Bioethical Matriarchy. Drawing from field, media, biomedical archival research, I am concerned with the ways African-descent and matriarchal status reproduce the social order, reflecting racialized and gendered histories of kinship, desire, and status inequality. I address these concerns through an anthropological engagement with African American/Diaspora studies and Feminist technoscientific scholarship in both the social sciences and humanities. I build on Richard Hyland (2014), by arguing that unequal and gendered forms of exchange (re)produce wealth and obligations to give, but not necessarily to reciprocate. I discuss why the bioethical, intellectual property, and legal implications of these asymmetrical relationships necessarily take our discussion beyond issues of consent and inclusion to engaging larger questions of reparative and restorative justice. 

The Good Worker: Race and Gender in a 1970s Southern City

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-292
Author(s):  
Shirley Harkess ◽  
Carol Warren
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Southern City ◽  
Almost All ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Ideal Worker

By the end of the 1970s, the effort to end employment discrimination in the South by means of affirmative action was directed toward women as well as blacks. This study, based on interviews with owners or personnel managers in 29 local or national manufacturing firms in a medium-sized city, reveals that those selecting entry-level operatives do so in terms of an elaborated mental image of the “good worker.” Essentially, the ideal worker is acquiescent as well as ever-present. The race and gender components and implications of the image tended to undermine the intent and effect of affirmative action in jobs that had few qualifications but many applicants. Almost all of those actually hired were previously known to the employer. In this context, some degree of racial integration occurred, while a high degree of gender segregation continued. Of interest from the vantage point of today, at no time was age discrimination a consideration. We conclude by noting the difficulty of altering the employer's need for control as expressed by insuring a compliant workforce.

scholarly journals Swept Under the Rug? A Historiography of Gender and Black Colleges

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 760-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marybeth Gasman
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice ◽  
And Gender

This historiography of gender and black colleges uncovers the omission of women and gender relations. It uses an integrative framework, conceptualized by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, that considers race and gender as mutually interconnected, revealing different results than might be seen by considering these issues independently. The article is significant for historians and non-historians alike and has implications for educational policy and practice in the current day.

Minority Graduates from Michigan Law School: Differently Successful

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Nelson ◽  
Monique R. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law School ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
White Graduates

Lempert, Chambers, and Adams (2000; hereafter LCA) make an important contribution to both the debate on affirmative action in legal education and the sociology of the legal profession. We find their empirical results credible and agree with their interpretations of the data related to arguments about the role of affirmative action in Michigan's admissions policies. Yet, in crafting an analysis to demonstrate the similarities in the career outcomes of minority and white graduates, they have minimized evidence that points to substantial continuing patterns of inequality by race and gender within the legal profession. Moreover, LCA only begin to illuminate the mechanisms that produce the career patterns they document. Of particular importance is the question of how race, class, and gender interact to shape lawyers' careers-a topic LCA largely reserve for future analyses.

In Search of Our Memory: Gender in the Netherlands Antilles

1998 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Magdalena Cuales
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
And Gender

The history of class, race and gender relations is largely under researched for the island territories of Curaçao, Bonaire, St Eustatius, Saba and St Maarten, the group of islands which comprise the Netherlands-Antilles. While there are archival sources which can depict some of this history, much of it remains submerged in our memories due to our self-imposed silences on these social issues. In this paper I extract some of this memory together with fragments of research already carried out, statistical evidence available, and some of the struggles which the feminist movement has waged in regard to oppressive legislation which discriminated against women, to provide a glimpse of this postcolonial variation which also constitutes part of the Caribbean.

scholarly journals Accommodating Purdah to the Workplace: Gender Relations in the Office Sector in Pakistan

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmin Mirza
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
Fictive Kinship ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Images

Based on a qualitative survey of female office workers conducted in Lahore in 1996-97, this article examines the increasing market integration of women, particularly from the lower middle classes, into secretarial and technical occupations in the office sector in urban Pakistan. The study shows that gender images and gender relations inherent in the social order of Pakistani society—particularly the absence of socially sanctioned modes of communication between the sexes, a strong sexualisation of gender relations outside the kinship system, and the incessant harassment of women in the public sphere—surface inside the offices. Female office workers use many strategies, derived from their own life world, to maneuver in the office sector, to appropriate public (male) space, and to accommodate the purdah system to the office environment. By “creating social distance”, “developing socially obligatory relationships”, “integrating male colleagues into a fictive kinship system”, and “creating women’s spaces” they are able to establish themselves in a traditional male field of employment, namely, the office sector.

scholarly journals Is Affirmative Action Still Necessary? Analysis of Minority-Working Adults’ Perceptions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Steven Cates
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Mixed Support ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Protected Class ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Gender

Over the past three decades, the Unites States has struggle valiantly to overcome that disgusting legacy as it moves toward to eliminate race, and gender inequality, and the uprooting of prejudice and discrimination. Out of this struggle, came the birth of affirmative action. It has left politicians, social scientists, and economists debating its merits and possible alternatives. From the Supreme Court to the dinner table, the potential effects of this policy on our legal, political and social system have been argued. This study analyzes the perceptions protected class employees in terms of the affirmative action in employment. Utilizing a sample of 151 protected class working adults, data analysis provided mixed support to the stated hypotheses which suggested that affirmative action had eliminated most discriminatory practices in corporate America. The results of this study answer the question of this study asserting the necessity of the affirmative action.

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