DANIELLE HEDEGARD - Boston College

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS
Book Project
In Progress, Consuming Capoeira: Blackness and Cosmopolitan Tourism in Salvador, Brazil
Articles Under Review
Hedegard, Danielle. “The Meanings of Symbols: Cultural Frames and Semiotic Relationships
of Race in the Tourism Market of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil,” Under review at Cultural
Sociology.
Working Papers
Hedegard, Danielle. “Global Connections and Cultured Disposition: Framing Culture for
Brazilian Elites.”
This manuscript integrates work on cultural taste with work on globalization. Content
analysis of culture magazines oriented toward Brazilian elites reveals that elite culture in
Brazil integrates elements of global culture – popular and highbrow objects from the United
States and Western European– with popular themes from Brazilian culture. Articles frame
elite culture as demonstrating transnational connections and a cultured disposition that relies
on prior knowledge of foreign culture and places.
Hedegard, Danielle. “The Strength of Weak Racial Identity: How Social Networks vary across
Strong vs. Symbolic Identities.”
This manuscript theorizes racial identity as a symbolic resource that varies in strength at
the individual level, and then integrates this framework with scholarly work on race and
social networks. Regression techniques on data from the General Social Survey reveal that
weak racial identities are “strong” symbolic resources similar to recent findings on the
strength of weak culture. They act as flexible symbolic tools that allow actors to establish
diverse weak social ties and large networks. Including a measure of identity strength in
regression models also weakens the effect of racial status on both number of weak ties and
overall network size. For whites, a weaker identity increases weak ties, but for blacks, it
decreases weak ties. This unexpected finding provides a possible mechanism for the
difference in network size between whites and blacks documented by network scholars.
Work in Development
“Cultural Tastes and Consumption Patterns in Brazil”
NSF proposal, anticipated future book project. Draft available.
“Success and Failure in a Cultural Market: How Class Habitus Sells Race.”
Adaptation of dissertation findings.
“Culture in Cross-­‐Cultural Interaction”
Uses a case study of an AmeriCorps workgroup to theorize how actors with divergent collective
representations co-­‐construct meaning.
“Can the Upwardly Mobile Working Class Learn Cultural Capital?”
This project will contribute to work on cultural capital, by asking if and how actors can acquire
dominant cultural capital later in life.
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