scholarly journals Embodied Resistance: Multiracial Identity, Gender, and the Body

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Gabrielle G. Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Multiethnic Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Embodied Resistance ◽  
Multiethnic Women

This article explores the importance of the physical body in the development of gendered racial and ethnic identities through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 multiracial/multiethnic women. From a critical mixed race and critical feminist perspective, I argue that the development of an embodied and gendered multiracial and multiethnic identity is a path to questioning and resisting the dominant monoracial order in the United States. Interviews reveal that respondents develop these embodied identities both through understandings of themselves as gendered and raced subjects and through relationships with monoracial individuals. The process by which these women understand their physical bodies as multiracial subjects illustrates a critical embodied component of the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States.

“It’s not something I’ve really thought about ‘til now’”: The social aspects of U.S. emerging adults’ comics reading histories

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110542
Author(s):  
Robin A. Moeller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Social Cost ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Common

The common image of a reader is that of a person alone with a book, but reading is actually a social activity. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which social aspects influenced a group of emerging adults’ comics reading when they were children and/or teens. Data was collected by surveying and conducting semi-structured interviews with 34 emerging adults in the Southeast region of the United States about their comics reading histories. The research findings describe who the participants felt had the most impact on their comics reading, as well as the extent to which the participants felt that they belonged to a community of comics readers. Significantly, the participants’ notion of comics readers as “nerds” emerged from the data, which the participants largely connected to gender, and which participant Lauren noted, “It’s not something I’ve really thought about ‘til now.’” The implications of these findings suggest that some of these participants felt that there was a social cost to comics reading. Suggestions for making comics reading more accessible for more readers are discussed.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Marrow ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Social Defeat ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Vulnerability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Neuronal Connections ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Schizophrenia is a disorder with causes that are endogenous to the body including genetic vulnerability and the decay of neuronal connections. However, there is evidence that individual vulnerability to psychosis is increased by the experiences of discrimination, despair, trauma, and failure. Drawing upon epidemiology and animal biology, this chapter argues that repeated social defeat increases the risk of developing psychosis. Further, social defeat, especially in the United States, is a regular experience of those who who live with a serious mental illness. The case studies of persons with psychosis in this volume illustrate the social and cultural factors that may be responsible for outcomes. How psychosis is understood, whether available work can accommodate the ill individual, the type of family involvement, the social and cultural backdrop, and the meaning of symptoms are factors that mitigate or exacerbate illness. The final section of this chapter presents some recommendations for how the lives of those with psychosis might be improved.

Latinx Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Alison Cerezo ◽  
Juan Camarena ◽  
Amaranta Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Mental Health ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Sexual and gender diverse (SGD) Latinxs are a vibrant, heterogenous community that can trace their heritage to various countries in Latin America. This chapter describes how socio-historical trends in the United States and Latin America have shaped the social and health conditions of SGD Latinxs, including the impact of colonialism and recent state-sanctioned discriminatory violence. An intersectionality framework is used in this chapter to consider how race and ethnicity, immigration, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity function interdependently to impact the lives of SGD Latinxs in the United States and around the world. The authors also discuss trends in SGD Latinx research in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on mental health and substance abuse.

scholarly journals An Attack on the Separation of Powers? Strategic Climate Litigation in the Eyes of U.S. Judges

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8335
Author(s):  
Jasmina Nedevska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Climate Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Domestic Courts ◽  
Research Plan

Climate change litigation has emerged as a powerful tool as societies steer towards sustainable development. Although the litigation mainly takes place in domestic courts, the implications can be seen as global as specific climate rulings influence courts across national borders. However, while the phenomenon of judicialization is well-known in the social sciences, relatively few have studied issues of legitimacy that arise as climate politics move into courts. A comparatively large part of climate cases have appeared in the United States. This article presents a research plan for a study of judges’ opinions and dissents in the United States, regarding the justiciability of strategic climate cases. The purpose is to empirically study how judges navigate a perceived normative conflict—between the litigation and an overarching ideal of separation of powers—in a system marked by checks and balances.

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