Disappearing Acts: The State and Violence against Women in the Twentieth Century

As children we held our breath, our senses filled with the musty smells of elephants, the staccato flashes of twirling plastic flashlights, the terrors of trapeze. With mystery, moustache, and elegance, the magician waved a wand, invited a woman, usually White, seemingly working class, into a box. She disappeared or was cut in half. Applause. Our early introduction to the notion of the sponsored disappearing act. So, too, at the end of the twentieth century, we witness poor and working-class women shoved into spaces too small for human form, no elegance, no wand. And they too disappear. Disappearing from welfare rolls, from universities, being swept off the streets. Dumped out of mental institutions and poured into prisons. We write to map the State-sponsored disappearing acts of the late twentieth century, the loss of welfare rights, higher education, and public spaces for women, as a conscience point for us to re-imagine what could be, what must be, for girls and women — poor and working class — in the twenty-first century

Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Expanding Critical Ethnographic Theory and Design

Almost 10 years ago, in Working Method (2004), we argued for a critical theory of method for educational studies, which would analyze lives in the context of history, structure, and institutions, across the power lines of privilege and marginalization

The Teacher Would Call Me \u27Piggy\u27, \u27Smelley\u27, \u27Dirty\u27, Names like That : Prying Open a Discussion of Domestic Violence for Educators

(The Teacher) would call me piggy , smelly , dirty , names like that, and the kids started following along with it. And I\u27d say, by the fourth grade, I started cleaning myself out. I didn\u27t care anymore, but my father had this thing that you were allowed to take a bath once a week. He would measure the shampoo, he would measure the soap, and if he thought somebody was using the shampoo when he said you shouldn\u27t, you\u27d get a beating. But I got sick of it, and the beatings almost became to be painless when hit with a belt or punched, it just...it almost didn\u27t phase me anymore, and I figured I\u27d rather be clean and go to school and have friends, because it hurt more to not have friends than to be hit by my father. –Anna, a twenty six year old white femal

Vendo a educação de forma relacional : classe e cultura na sociologia do conhecimento escolar

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Seeing red over black and white: popular and media representations of inter-racial relationships as precursors to racial violence

The recent murder in the UK of Anthony Walker attests to the lingering antipathy, indeed hostility, toward intimate inter-racial relationships, especially those involving black men and white women. Seventeen year-old Walker was brutally beaten then fatally assaulted with an axe to his head - the 'provocation' for the attack was this young black man’s relationship with his white girl friend. This paper assesses the historical and contemporary images and mythologies that continue to stigmatize inter-racial relationships. Specifically, we look at the representations disseminated through varied popular media forms. The paper suggests that these mediated constructs condition an environment that facilitates, if not encourages, violence against those in inter-racial relationships

Relapse Associated with Active Disease Caused by Beijing Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis1

Risk for relapse was higher among persons of Asian–Pacific Islander descent

Weis, Lois, Inequality: A Sociological Perspective in Teacher Education, Educational Foundations, 1(Fall, 1986), 41-50.*

Critiques teacher education from the perspective of inequality