Transgressing the Academy

Fillingim, Angela E.; Reyes, Victoria; Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi

doi:10.1177/23326492231174508

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

2023

DOI: 10.1177/23326492231174508

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Transgressing the Academy

Angela E. Fillingim

Victoria Reyes

Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

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Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)

Blume Oeur,

Robinson

2023

Soc Psychol Q

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We raise concerns about Quadlin and Montgomery’s Social Psychology Quarterly article, “When a Name Gives You Pause,” a study of whether racialized names affect the time to dog adoption in a county shelter. Our comment is guided by the recent insistence of American Sociological Association leadership for greater critical introspection in sociological research. First, the study is ahistorical by overlooking histories of human-animal relations and naming in the construction of anti-Blackness. Second, the study is acontextual by contorting labor market research and color-blind perspectives in a manner that directs undue attention to the treatment of dogs without specifying the concrete disadvantages for Black people. The study’s narrow focus on adopters misrepresents organizational factors within animal shelters. These various oversights invest Quadlin and Montgomery’s article in a whiteness-centered sociological tradition. We urge divesting from this tradition and conclude with a call for sociology to be more educative and reflexive.

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Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)

Blume Oeur,

Robinson

2023

Soc Psychol Q

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Bridges for Transgression: How Community Engagement Strengthened My Conocimiento

Acosta

2024

Gender & Society

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This article is an expansion of the Feminist Lecture that I gave at the Sociologists for Women in Society Meetings in April 2021. I map my journey toward conocimiento, highlighting the centrality of my volunteer work with asylum seekers, traveling to their sponsors after being released from ICE detention, for the development of my identity as a scholar activist. I rely on two theories, intersectionality and spiritual activism—both developed by women of color scholars to guide our efforts toward social change—to illustrate how scholars can reconcile their roles as community activists with their roles as scholars in academia. I bring intersectionality and spiritual activism together, as distinct (albeit complementary) resistant knowledge projects that, in tandem, support my critique of sociology’s competing commitments to objective empirical research and social justice. I chronicle how strengthening my conocimiento has served as a tool in my efforts to transgress the discipline and ultimately how it helped me find a more authentic existence within the academy.

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Crisis Feminisms: How Convenient Forgetting, Feminist Ambivalence, and Racial Gaslighting Maintain the Status Quo

Moussawi,

Reyes

2024

Critical Sociology

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In this paper, we interrogate what are considered feminist issues for feminist sociologists, prodding us to expand our definition of ‘feminist sociology’ considering what we are still learning from global crises. We take our cue from Black, indigenous, women of color, and transnational feminisms, who highlight the importance of the self, center gender, sexuality, racialization, class, power and transnational processes, and have a commitment to feminist praxis. In doing so, we introduce the concept of ‘crisis feminisms’ as a theoretical tool to unpack how and why feminist practices and processes re-enact epistemic violence and maintain the status quo, despite rhetorically declaring otherwise. These processes, we argue, occur through three intertwined mechanisms: convenient forgetting, feminist ambivalence, and racial gaslighting. Documenting how these processes are enacted, we argue that radical potentialities for change are possible, but only if we embrace and practice what such feminist knowledges teach us.

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Transgressing the Academy

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)

Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)

Bridges for Transgression: How Community Engagement Strengthened My Conocimiento

Crisis Feminisms: How Convenient Forgetting, Feminist Ambivalence, and Racial Gaslighting Maintain the Status Quo

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