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Author Irvine, Janice M., author

Title Marginal people in deviant places : ethnography, difference, and the challenge to scientific racism / Janice M. Irvine.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 302 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-302) and index.
Summary Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures--ranging from Los Angeles hoboes to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California--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 offered an early challenge to then-dominant narratives of scientific racism and then offers a social history of certain American outsiders and a prehistory of the academic fields of ethnic studies and sexuality studies. Through the stories Irvine recounts in this book, she identifies an American paradox represented in a simultaneous desire for and rejection of outsiders and describes the rise of an outsider capitalism that integrates difference into American society by marketing it. Place plays a crucial role in this work as Irvine examines its role in shaping ethnographies about outsiders and therefore understandings of social difference. Irvine has visited the sites of each of the ethnographies about which she writes, collecting photos, videos, and archival materials that will help readers understand the importance of place in the generation of particular ethnographic stories. The open-access online edition of this book is richly illustrated to help convey the deep sense of emplacement of the ethnographies discussed in this book and includes a series of interviews with sociologists about how they conduct their work and understand their forebears.
Note This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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Subject Marginality, Social -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Deviant behavior -- Labeling theory.
Ethnology -- Methodology -- History.
Racism -- Social aspects.
Ethnologie -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Subculture -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Déviance -- Théorie de l'étiquetage.
Ethnologie -- Méthodologie -- Histoire.
Racisme -- Aspect social.
Social Science / Gender Studies.
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Social Science / Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Ethnology -- Methodology
Deviant behavior -- Labeling theory
Ethnology
Marginality, Social
Subculture
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Added Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Has Supplement: Supplement (work): Irvine, Janice M. Marginal people in deviant places 1 online resource (8 video files, 134 digital images, 1 external link)
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Original 0472055380 9780472055388 (OCoLC)1268256930
ISBN 0472902652 open access
9780472902651 (electronic bk.)
9780472055388 paperback book
0472055380
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.11519906 doi
AU@ 000072136118

 
    
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