Getting Respect
Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog, Elisa Reis
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Getting Respect
Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog, Elisa Reis
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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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Historical, socioeconomic, and institutional elements | Cultural repertoires | Groupness |
• Size of group and its relative demographic weight • Ethnoracial demographic diversity of the region and society • History of group relations and inequality • Changes in levels and national patterns of inequality • Economic context (e.g., economic recession and expansion) | • National myths and ideologies (e.g., American Dream, Zionism, racial democracy) and models of incorporation in the polity (e.g., melting pot, multiculturalism) • Transnational antiracist repertoires (e.g., human rights, social justice, black diaspora) • Empowering ideologies (e.g., black nationalism) | • Self-definition and self-labeling • Meaning of identity and perceived cultural distinctiveness of group • Salience of racial, class, and national identification in the group • Reported network composition and homophily |
• Concentration of ethnoracial minorities across classes and recent transformation of class structure • Spatial and institutional segregation (including incarceration) • Institutional and legal reforms (including those dealing with race, ethnicity, and nationality) • Political transformation (progressive, liberal, and conservative eras) | • Available repertoires of group disadvantages and shared experiences; ready-made scripts about exclusion and universalism • Hierarchy of class cultures (e.g., dominance of middle-class culture, stigmatization of the poor) • Class- and gender-specific cultural repertoires (e.g., masculinity, self-actualization) • General cultural repertoires (e.g., meritocracy, therapeutic culture, identity politics) • Neoliberal repertoires (e.g., competition, privatization of risk, self-reliance) | • Symbolic boundaries toward dominant group and its perceived advantages • Census categories and policies making group identity salient • Homophily in cohabitation/marriage and friendship • Perceived spatial segregation |