scholarly journals Racist Sex without Racists: The Pleasure of Race and White Control Over the Terms of Sexual Racial Liberation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Orne
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Sociological Association ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Sexual Racism ◽  
A Site ◽  
White Control

Can people find pleasure in race, or is any mention or description of race erotically itself racist? Using the framework of sexual racism, in this essay, I contend that people do find pleasure in race and to propose a colorblind alternative to sexual racism is inappropriate. I consider the kink of race play as a site where it is clear pleasure exists for some. To delineate ethical and unethical pleasures of race, and the possibility for a non-colorblind approach, I look at experiences of racial beauty experienced by people of color themselves. This essay was delivered at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association to the invited conference thematic panel Feeling Race: Solidarity, Affinity, and Belonging. Originally titled in the program: “The Pleasures of Race: Racism and Connection in Sexy Communities.”

Afropessimism, Liminal Hotspots, and Claude McKay’s Aesthetic of Sovereign Rejection in Romance in Marseille

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-217
Author(s):  
Michael J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Spatial Frame ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
A Site

Abstract This article considers Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille through two emerging fields of study: “Afropessimism” and anthropological theories of the “liminal hotspot.” It suggests that McKay’s novel functions as a critique of positive Harlem Renaissance images of diasporic movement by highlighting how racial “Blackness” functions as a system for rejecting people of color from the benefits of modernity and sovereign rights-bearing status in an expanded temporal and spatial frame. To explore this hypothesis, the article turns to new anthropological work on the liminal hotspot as a site of sustained, unresolved transition, reading the affectivity of diaspora as a negative one in McKay’s work that places an unsustainable pressure on ritual and performative stylizations and renders them untenable as forms for cultivating a sovereign condition.

scholarly journals Globalization” and the “Permanent” Process of “Primitive Accumulation”: The Example of the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment

2000 ◽  
pp. 728-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Von Werlhof
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Sociological Association ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
Multilateral Agreement On Investment ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein

At the 1985 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Washington, I had, at the invitation of Immanuel Wallerstein, the opportunity to present my theses on the subject “Why Peasants and Housewives do not Disappear in the Capitalist World System” (Werlhof 1985). Some years later, in an article with the same title, I dealt with the basic thesis of the presentation at ASA for the entire process of accumulation, namely the permanent relevance of processes of so-called “primitive accumulation”(1991). I am glad to come back to the subject in my contribution to thiscommemorative volume, though I shall deal with it in a new context: theso-called globalization debate.

scholarly journals Profound Encounters: The Love Feast and the Old German Baptist Brethren

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Tony Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Saturday Evening ◽  
A Site

The author uses an autoethnographic and narrative approach, based in a postpositivist research framework, to describe and explore the love feast as it is observed among the Old German Baptist Brethren. The "love feast occasion" constitutes a site of prime spiritual and communal significance for members of the group, who represent the largest Plain or Old Order expression of the Schwarzenau Brethren. The occasion, taking place over a full weekend of services, communal meals, informal time for fellowship and "Youngfolks" activities is hosted annually by each district or congregation (as well as being held at the group's Annual Meeting at Pentecost). Its essential feature is a lengthy service held on the Saturday evening that reenacts the central events of Jesus's last meal with his disciples in Jerusalem, prior to His betrayal and death. Discrete but interlinked elements of this highly ritualized service involve preparation, footwashing, a communal fellowship meal, an exchange of the holy kiss and sharing in the bread and wine of Communion. The deeply symbolic and highly ritualized event constitutes an occurrence in which members see themselves as renewing their connection with God, their mystical relationship with fellow members and with the central emphases of Brethren teaching.

Erving Goffman’s presidential address on ‘The interaction order’: Rhetorical combat and the display of vocational commitment

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-224
Author(s):  
M Michael Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Sociological Association ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Systematic Treatment ◽  
Interaction Order ◽  
Rhetorical Debate

Erving Goffman’s posthumously published essay, ‘The interaction order’, which was to have been presented as a presidential address at an annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, is usually taken to be an attempt at a systematic summary by Goffman of his key ideas. This article suggests the address can also be understood as a profoundly personal and deeply scornful critique by Goffman of the varieties of mainstream sociology and the pretensions of its practitioners. Incorporated into that critique is a simulacrum in which Goffman demonstrated what a systematic treatment of his work might look like had he actually been inclined to generate one. In that respect, ‘The interaction order’ transcends the boundaries of what we ordinarily expect to find in an academic address: it is simultaneously an artful display of Goffman’s real vocational commitment to sociology, a contribution to the rhetorical debate in which he engaged with the practitioners of orthodox versions of sociology and a brief but significant demonstration of some aspects he considered distinctive about his own form of sociology.

A seat at the table? Reflections on Black geographies and the limits of dialogue

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Hawthorne ◽  
Kaily Heitz
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nonlinear Modes ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Black Geographies ◽  
A Site ◽  
Point Of Departure

This commentary uses the Black Geographies Symposium, held at UC Berkeley from October 11-12, 2017, as a point of departure to discuss the political and intellectual limits of calls for dialogue. We focus specifically on the historical exclusion of Black scholars and Black thought from human geography and understand the academy as a site for the reproduction of epistemic violence against women and people of color. Calls for dialogue within the academy that neglect to consider historically sedimented power relations—including human geography’s own entanglement with colonialism and racism—therefore commit the grave error of substituting equity for true justice. We argue instead for nonhierarchical and nonlinear modes of study that can attend to the complex geographical itineraries and interconnected struggles that continue to shape our understandings of the relations of capitalism, racism, and sexism structuring the modern world. Specifically, an intellectual praxis that begins from a place of Black humanness can enable us to tap into a wider epistemological network, one that refutes cursory lip service to Black scholarship and engages deeply with its consequences for our political and intellectual interactions.

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