SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting

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THEMATIC

CFP 57 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: American Colonization of the Sociological Imagination: The Intersection of Colonization and PCI
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Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Nicole Kraus, West Texas A&M University

Description: 

This session examines how American hegemonic dominance has shaped the broader sociological imagination. It asks how scholars might move beyond U.S.-centric frameworks without marginalizing non-American research and considers how these questions intersect with scholarship on poverty, class, and inequality.

Papers:

“‘Comfort Woman’ as a Form of Collective Rape: Theorizing Maria Rosa Henson’s ‘Story on Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military’,” Raisa L. Ty, University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Eastern Philippines

“Beyond the ‘Leaky Pipeline’: Domesticated Sponsored Mobility of Credentialed Daughters in South Korea, 1950s–1980s,” HongJin Jo, The University of Chicago

“Creating Panethnicity: Latino/a and Asian American Identity and Attachment in the United States,” Christine M. Capili, University of La Verne

“The Institutional Production of Housing Instability: Neighborhood Exposure to Intensive Low-Level Policing and Extractive Landlord Practices,” Aaron Stagoff-Belfort, The University of Chicago

“Why So Angry: A Redux: Understanding Resentment among Majority Populations,” Jeffry A. Will, University of North Florida Center for Community Initiatives