Despite this contact, the differences persist racial and ethnic barriers remain in place while the traffic moves over and around them.Īlthough our history is unique, we are not alone in our ethnic and racial preoccupations, ambivalencies, and often denied histories. Occasionally we become interracial intimates-for love, or sex, or domination, or revenge. Mostly, though, our lives are ethnically cleansed-friendships, partners, neighborhoods, churches, schools all safely segregated.
Even as we barricade ourselves inside ethnic enclaves, we plan trips as ethnic tourists, traveling across boundaries as consumers of raced and ethnic-flavored popular culture-music, movies, TV, dress, hair, talk, food. We gaze across this divided social space sometimes with suspicion, sometimes with desire. Why are racial and ethnic boundaries so persistent and ubiquitous?Īmericans occupy a social landscape marked by racial and ethnic boundaries. Her latest book is Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science, Policy (Routledge 2016). Her recent research includes “Re-Gendering Climate Change: Men and Masculinity in Climate Research, Policy and Practice (with Trevor Scott Lies), Frontiers in Climate (2022), “Lessons from the Pandemic: “Environmental Sociology, Climate Change, and COVID-19” (with David Heath Cooper), International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (2021), “The Cowboy Scientist Saves the Planet: Hegemonic Masculinity in Cli-Fi Films” (with Sam Kendrick), Masculinities (2021), “Gender, Conflict, and the Militarization of Climate Change,” Peace Review (2015), “ Plus Ça Change: Reflections on a Century of Militarizing Women's Sexuality,” European Journal of Women’s Studies (2014), Race, Ethnicity & Sexuality: Intimate Intersections and Forbidden Frontiers (Oxford, 2003), and American Indian Ethnic Renewal (Oxford, 1996). Professor Nagel (PhD Stanford) is a political and cultural sociologist her work focuses on ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and in the global system, American Indian activism, militarization of science, and global climate change.
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