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Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism - Softcover

Irvine, Janice M.

 
9780472055388: Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472055380 ISBN 13: 9780472055388
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California—helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the United States. Irvine demonstrates how the social scientists who told the stories of these marginalized groups represented an early challenge to then-dominant narratives of scientific racism, prefiguring the academic fields of gender, ethnic, sexuality, and queer studies in key ways. In recounting the social histories of certain American outsiders, Irvine identifies an American paradox by which social differences are both despised and desired, and she describes the rise of an outsider capitalism that integrates difference into American society by marketing it.

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Janice M. Irvine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Verlag
The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0472055380
ISBN 13 
9780472055388
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
310
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