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Challenging Race/Ethnicity and Gender Identities in Institutional Cultures
Presented by The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

Thursday, October 12, 2017
12:00pm-1:30pm
Marie Mount 1310

Light lunch provided

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Moderated by Dr. Caryn N. Bell, African American Studies Department

Cara Snyder, Doctoral Student, Department of Women’s Studies
Feminizing Futebol: Eugenic Logics in Brazilian Women’s Soccer

The worlds of amateur and professional sports remains rigidly bifurcated, divided between women and men. “I Didn’t Fit” explores the marginalization of athletes who do not identify within a gender binary. Building off of interviews conducted with Brazilian women futebolistas as well as with members of Meninos Bom de Bola, Brazil’s first trans male soccer team, this paper engages transnational feminisms and sexuality studies to track some of the impacts of soccer’s exclusions. Using transnational methodologies, which theorize multidirectional connections between locals, I argue that gender queer athletes expose the socio-economic systems that delimit them, even as they continue to make space within such structures.  

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Nina Daoud, Doctoral Student, Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
“Portraits of the (In)visible: Examining the Intersections of Race, Religion, and Gender for Black Muslim Women in College”

Through the qualitative methodology of portraiture, this dissertation study utilizes Goffman’s theory of dramaturgical analysis along with Collins’s concept of matrix of domination to present portraits of four Black Muslim women, focusing on how they make decisions about which of their identities to embody during their undergraduate years. In particular, this study addresses the following research questions: (1) How do internal and external dimensions of campus climate shape the college experiences of Black Muslim women? (2) How do they negotiate the intersections of their racial, religious, and gender identities while in college? Findings from this study illuminate issues of power and privilege in different spaces, including the Muslim community, the Black community, college campuses, and the U.S. thereby disrupting narratives of universality among those who identify as Black or Muslim, within institutions of higher education as well as the U.S. at large.
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Ana I. Sanchez-Rivera, Doctoral Student, Department of Geographical Sciences
“The Role of Government in the Creation of Places and its Influence on Racial Identification: A multi-site case study in Loíza and Canóvanas, Puerto Rico”

Identity, race, and place are interrelated dynamic social constructions that are central to culture and ethnicity. In Puerto Rico, race is linked to ethnicity because the gov¬ernment decided to highlight three groups involved in the colonization as the main representatives of the culture, Tainos (Native-Indians), Spaniards (colonizers) and Africans (slaves). Even though Puerto Rico is understood as a racially diverse place, more than 75% of the population selects White as their race in the U.S. Census. This research tries to understand if places can influence how people select their “race.” The researcher selected two administratively-created counties using racial makeup where their populations are phenotypically similar, but select different racial categories on the U.S. Census. The study challenges existing theories of identity using a mixed meth¬odology from an interpretative and social constructivist approach.

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