Archives: Publications
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Critical Race Theory
In this contribution to the Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Mary Romero provides a comprehensive overview of critical race theory as an analytical framework for sociological research. The chapter traces the intellectual origins of CRT in legal scholarship and charts its…
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The Ghosts of Bisbee
Bisbee, Arizona was once a thriving copper mining town — until 1917, when over a thousand striking miners and their supporters were rounded up at gunpoint, loaded into cattle cars, and deported to the New Mexico desert. In The Ghosts…
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Video Ethnography: Toward a Reflexive Paradigm for Documentary
Video Ethnography: Toward a Reflexive Paradigm for Documentary By Eric Margolis Division of Educational Leadership and Policy StudiesArizona State University margolis@asu.edu This article was originally published in the journal Jump Cut as “Video Ethnography” (1994, Jump Cut 39, pp. 122-131). The web…
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Blind Spots: Thoughts for Visual Sociology Upon Reading Martin Jay’s Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Blind Spots: Thoughts for Visual Sociology Upon Reading Martin Jay’s Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought Reviewed by Eric MargolisAssociate ProfessorEducational Leadership and Policy StudiesArizona State Universitymargolis@asu.edu Ranging from Plato to Lyotard, Jay’s remarkable book is…
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Through a Lens Darkly: U.S. Urban schools and the photographic imagination
Through a Lens Darkly: U.S. Urban Schools and the Photographic Imagination ABSTRACT Reviewed by Eric MargolisAssociate ProfessorEducational Leadership and Policy StudiesArizona State Universitymargolis@asu.edu ABSTRACT Advancing technology that includes digitized images, search and retrieval databases, and the Internet has made it…
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Life is Life: A Mining Family in The West
Life is Life: A Mining Family in The West Coal mining was essential to the development of the American West. Mining was labor intensive and spread over a wide area. Miners and their families lived in company towns and small…
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Mining Photographs: Unearthing the Meanings of Historical Photos
Mining Photographs: Unearthing the Meanings of Historical Photos An earlier version of this article appeared as: Eric Margolis, “Mining Photographs: Unearthing the Meanings of Historical Photos,” Radical History Review 40 (1988), pp. 32-48. Copyright (1988), MARHO, the Radical Historian’s Organization. All rights…