Arbiters of Race

Cultural Intermediaries, Racism, and Consumer Industries
Herausgeber: Withers, Erik T.; Brunsma, David L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Advancing the conversation on cultural intermediation by adding the much overlooked reality of racism, Arbiters of Race: Cultural Intermediaries, Racism, and Consumer Industries offers a much needed critical and contemporary focus on the ever changing landscape of race in the marketplace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781032738451
• ISBN-10: 1032738456
• Artikelnr.: 74440856

Autorenporträt

Erik T. Withers is Assistant Professor in the Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology Department at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, where he also serves as the coordinator of the Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies program. He researches and teaches in the subject areas of race and ethnicity, gender and sexualities, and consumer culture. He and his wife (Vanessa) have three daughters (Harper, Ellison, and Hope). In his free time, he explores Western Wisconsin with them and coaches their ice hockey and softball teams. David L. Brunsma is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. He is founding coeditor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, the official journal of the Section of Racial and Ethnic Minorities at the American Sociological Association, as well as the founding coeditor of the University of Georgia Press book series of the same name. His research is currently focused on understanding the ways that whitespaces function across multiple domains of social and cultural life. He lives, learns, and loves in Blacksburg, VA, with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Arbiters of Race? Instilling Race into Our Understandings of
Cultural Intermediaries, Erik T. Withers and David L. Brunsma; Section One:
Arbitering Race in the Media; 1. Organizations as Cultural Intermediaries?
A Case-Study of a Conservative Think Tank, Annie Jones and J. Scott Carter;
2. Cultural Intermediaries Promoting Critical Racial Consciousness: The
Potential Public Pedagogy of Podcasts, Jan Meij; Section Two: Arbitering
Race in Creative Industries; 3. Behind the Scenes: The Institutional Uses
of "Diversity" in the Production of MoMA's Film Curatorship, Tania
Aparicio; 4. Curating Music Festivals: The Racialized Entanglements on the
Curation of Music Festivals, Jo Haynes; Section Three: Arbitering Race in
Bodies; 5. "The Darkest Shade": Mediating the Politics of Skin Tone, Jordan
Foster; 6. Cosmetic Surgeons as Arbiters of a Beautiful Nose: The Nariz
Negroide in Brazil, Carole Myers; Section Four: Arbitering Race in Consumer
Goods and Services; 7. Becoming Tastemakers: The Affective Labor of Latinx
Millennials in the Specialty Coffee Industry, Karina Santellano; 8.
Justice, Diversity, Equity, and INclusion Deja Vu: Cultural INtermediaries
in the Fashion Apparel Retail Industry, Sherita M. Cuffee and Shelly
Brown-Jeffy; 9. Racial Capitalism on the Retail Sales Floor: Examining
Cultural Arbiters as Organizationally Embedded Actors and Informal
Practices that Perpetuate the Racial Ordering of Consumers, Cassi Pittman
Claytor; Section Five: Arbitering Race in Racialized Space; 10. "You Almost
Can't Describe It": A Case Study of the National Urban League Conference
for Black Space, Social Movement Communities, and Cultural Intermediaries,
Candace C. Robinson; 11. Commercial Gentrification and Local Businesses as
Cultural Intermediaries in the Racialization of Space, Steven Tuttle