Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective [Paperback]

Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary people. They use a range of case studies drawn from the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, South Africa, and Sweden: the first systematic qualitative and cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in the course of their everyday lives.

The chapters in this book tackle a range of theoretical questions about stigmatization, including how they make sense of their experiences, how they shape subsequent behaviour, and how they negotiate and transform social and symbolic boundaries within a range of social and institutional contexts.

Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspectiveprovides new data and analysis of how stigmatization affects a range of societies, and its original research and analysis will be important reading for those studying Ethnicity, as well as Sociologists, Political Scientists, and Anthropologists. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

1. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: responses to stigmatization in comparative perspective Mich?le Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi  2. The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude Graziella Moraes D. Silva and Elisa P. Reis  3. African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and managing the self Crystal M. Fleming, Mich?le Lamont and Jessica S. Welburn  4. Participatory destigmatization strategies among Palestinian citizens,l“%