TY - JOUR
T1 - Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
T2 - Responses to stigmatization in comparative perspective
AU - Lamont, Michèle
AU - Mizrachi, Nissim
N1 - Funding Information:
The articles included in this issue represent several years of coordinated research efforts, with numerous exchanges and annual meetings made possible by a genenous Weatherhead Initiative grant from the Weatherhed Center for International Affairs. These articles were presented first at a conference on ‘Responses to Discrimination and Racism: Comparative Perspectives’ held at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University in April 2010 (http://sit es.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword k68885&pageid icb.page3323 86&pageContentId icb.pagecontent683496). On this occasion, we benefited from remarks from Nancy Hill and William Julius Wilson, who commented on the conference as whole, from comments from others discussants (acknowledged in individual papers), as well as from those of other graduate student participants centrally involved in the project · particularly Steven Brown, Nicole Hirsh, Anthony Jacks and Jovonne Bickerstaff. Other aspects of the collaboration have been funded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies, the Israeli Binational Science Foundation, the Van Leer Institute, and the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), the State of Rio de Janeiro Science Foundation (FAPERJ), and the National Funding Agency for Research and Development (FINEP). Finally, we thank Christopher Bail, Moa Bursell, Hanna Herzog, Riva Kastoryano, Nonna Mayer, Graziella Silva and Andreas Wimmer for their comments on this introduction. Finally, we thank Heather Latham
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds light on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinary people adopt in the course of their daily life. Articles analyse the cultural frames they mobilize to make sense of their experiences and to determine how to respond; how they negotiate and transform social and symbolic boundaries; and how responses are enabled and constrained by institutions, national ideologies, cultural repertoires and contexts. The similarities and differences across sites provide points of departure for further systematic research, which is particularly needed in light of the challenges for liberal democracy raised by multiculturalism.
AB - This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds light on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinary people adopt in the course of their daily life. Articles analyse the cultural frames they mobilize to make sense of their experiences and to determine how to respond; how they negotiate and transform social and symbolic boundaries; and how responses are enabled and constrained by institutions, national ideologies, cultural repertoires and contexts. The similarities and differences across sites provide points of departure for further systematic research, which is particularly needed in light of the challenges for liberal democracy raised by multiculturalism.
KW - Racism
KW - anti-racism
KW - destigmatization
KW - identity
KW - national ideologies
KW - stigma
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858068303&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2011.589528
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2011.589528
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AN - SCOPUS:84858068303
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 35
SP - 365
EP - 381
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 3
ER -