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Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges
for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in
response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from
a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from
the perspectives of ordinary people. They use a range of case
studies drawn from the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, South
Africa, and Sweden: the first systematic qualitative and
cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond
to stigmatization in the course of their everyday lives. The
chapters in this book tackle a range of theoretical questions about
stigmatization, including how they make sense of their experiences,
how they shape subsequent behaviour, and how they negotiate and
transform social and symbolic boundaries within a range of social
and institutional contexts. Responses to Stigmatization in
Comparative Perspective provides new data and analysis of how
stigmatization affects a range of societies, and its original
research and analysis will be important reading for those studying
Ethnicity, as well as Sociologists, Political Scientists, and
Anthropologists. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges
for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in
response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from
a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from
the perspectives of ordinary people. They use a range of case
studies drawn from the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, South
Africa, and Sweden: the first systematic qualitative and
cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond
to stigmatization in the course of their everyday lives. The
chapters in this book tackle a range of theoretical questions about
stigmatization, including how they make sense of their experiences,
how they shape subsequent behaviour, and how they negotiate and
transform social and symbolic boundaries within a range of social
and institutional contexts. Responses to Stigmatization in
Comparative Perspective provides new data and analysis of how
stigmatization affects a range of societies, and its original
research and analysis will be important reading for those studying
Ethnicity, as well as Sociologists, Political Scientists, and
Anthropologists. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
A comparative look at how discrimination is experienced by
stigmatized groups in the United States, Brazil, and Israel Racism
is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around
the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by
comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the
United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds
of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter
in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what
they view as the best strategy-whether individually, collectively,
through confrontation, or through self-improvement-for dealing with
such events. This deeply collaborative and integrated study draws
on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with middle- and
working-class men and women residing in and around multiethnic
cities-New York City, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv-to compare the
discriminatory experiences of African Americans, black Brazilians,
and Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as Israeli
Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi (Sephardic) Jews. Detailed analysis
reveals significant differences in group behavior: Arab
Palestinians frequently remain silent due to resignation and
cynicism while black Brazilians see more stigmatization by class
than by race, and African Americans confront situations with less
hesitation than do Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahim, who tend to
downplay their exclusion. The authors account for these patterns by
considering the extent to which each group is actually a group, the
sociohistorical context of intergroup conflict, and the national
ideologies and other cultural repertoires that group members rely
on. Getting Respect is a rich and daring book that opens many new
perspectives into, and sets a new global agenda for, the
comparative analysis of race and ethnicity.
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