in recognition of past and present service - Society for the Study of ...

Sunday, August 11, 2:30pm
“The Impacts of Social Welfare Reform Polices on Welfare
Assistance Recipients and Poverty among the Poor in the First
States in the United States,” Mukaria J. Itang’ata, Western
Michigan University
“Who Rules Home Care? The Impact of Privatization on
Profitability, Cost, & quality,” William D. Cabin, Richard Stockton
College and Michael L Siman, Youth Consultation Service
Session 164: Work Across the Life Course
Room: Gramercy
Sponsors:
Organizer &
Presider:
Papers:
Labor Studies
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
Ted M. Brimeyer, Georgia Southern University
“A Psychological Appraisal of Pre-retirement Anxiety among
selected workers in Lagos Metropolis,” Odunayo T. Arogundade,
Redeemer's University, Mowe, Ogun State, Nigeria
“Capital in the Workplace: An assessment of the impact of
information and communication technology on the social and
cultural capital of older workers,” Alexander A. Hernandez,
Boston College
“The Risk of Precarious Employment in Young Adulthood,”
Yelizavetta Kofman, University of California, Los Angeles
“Workplace Self Images: Do Gender and Race Still Matter?”
Dina Banerjee, Shippensburg University
“‘I’m Balancing It, but It’s Not Easy:’ Naval Occupational Stress as
a Risk Factor for Suicide,” Alexis A. Bender, Christine Lagana-
Riordan, Shelley Schmissrauter, Shayne Gallaway, Joseph Pecko
and Amy M. Bell, Army Institute of Public Health
THEMATIC
Session 165: Moving Beyond Social Constructionism in Race
and Ethnicity
Room: Imperial
Sponsor:
Organizer &
Presider:
Description:
Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Bhoomi K. Thakore, Northwestern University
In keeping with the theme of the 2013 annual SSSP meeting, this
session will address and confront "the contemporary
structures...that so insidiously shape our [racialized] social
problems."
Papers:
“No Taxation without Discrimination: A Racialized Fiscal Structure
during the Late Jim Crow Era,” Kasey Henricks, American Bar
Foundation and Loyola University Chicago
“Is the Black Church Dead? An Empirical Analysis of Profiles,
Presence, and Prophetic Witness,” Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt
University: Dept of HOD and the Divinity School and Oluchi
Chinyere Nwosu, Vanderbilt University: Dept of HOD
“Can norm-based interventions improve anti-racism behaviors
on college campuses?” Chavella T. Pittman, Dominican University
“Social Construction of Breast Cancer: Experiences of Black
Women Survivors,” Margaret Barton-Burke, University of
Missouri-St. Louis and Felicia Wiltz, Suffolk University
“‘They think we do drive-by’s on elephants’: Rejection and
adoption of ‘African’ identity by Black youth as experienced by
African immigrants in New York City,” Tracy Chu, Brooklyn
College, City University of New York, Andrew Rasmussen,
Fordham University and Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, City
College, City University of New York
Session 166: Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration &
New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Room: Booth
Sponsor:
Organizer:
Presider:
Description:
Program Committee
Graham Cassano, Oakland University
A. Kathryn Stout, Manhattan College
The documentary centers around the theory put forward by
many, and most recently by Michelle Alexander (who appears in
the movie), that mass incarceration has become "The New Jim
Crow." That is, since the rise of the drug war and the explosion of
the prison population, and because discretion within the system
allows for arrest and prosecution of people of color at alarmingly
higher rates than whites, prisons and criminal penalties have
become a new version of Jim Crow. Much of the discrimination
that was legal in the Jim Crow era is today illegal when applied to
black people but perfectly legal when applied to "criminals." The
problem is that through subjective choices, people of color have
been targeted at significantly higher rates for stops, searches,
arrests, prosecution, and harsher sentences. So, where does this
leave criminal justice? (length: 68 minutes)
Session 167: The Academic Job Market
Room: Broadway I
Sponsor:
Program Committee
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Organizer &
Presider:
David Fasenfest, Wayne State University