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Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- Publish Date: Jul 25th, 2022
- Pages: 348
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.98in - 5.91in - 0.87in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9780472055388
- Categories: • Sociology - General• Gender Studies• Black Studies (Global)
About the Author
Janice M. Irvine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Praise for this book
"The book makes a compelling argument, tells a fascinating and multilayered story, and is beautifully written. The diverse subjects of the ethnographies will be of interest to specialists in a wide range of fields, including urban studies, the history and sociology of medicine, queer studies, sexuality studies, youth studies, and African American studies."
--Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis-- "Andrea Friedman"
--Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis-- "Andrea Friedman"
"This book offers a multilayered critical history of early- to mid-20th-century US ethnographers who studied 'deviant' outsiders and their marginal locations."
--Choice--A. C. S. Swords "Choice" (5/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)
--Choice--A. C. S. Swords "Choice" (5/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)