Movement and Migration Series Lecture: Slaughterhouse South: Migration, Ethnoracial Boundaries, and the Social Organization of Labor
Location
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
Start Date
15-4-2020 12:00 PM
End Date
15-4-2020 1:00 PM
Publication Date
April 2020
Description
Drawing on sixteen months of work as a meatpacker in a North Carolina slaughterhouse, Vanesa Ribas investigates the intergroup dynamics between migrants and native-born workers, showing how the experience of oppressive exploitation mediates relations between Latina/o migrants, African Americans, and whites. Challenging conventional accounts, this research reveals the continued significance of white supremacy in the emerging arrangement of group statuses, experiences, and relations in a vastly transformed ethnoracial landscape. Vanesa Ribas is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She studies race/ethnicity, migration, labor, political mobilization, and social inequalities.
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Ribas, Vanesa and University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, "Movement and Migration Series Lecture: Slaughterhouse South: Migration, Ethnoracial Boundaries, and the Social Organization of Labor" (2020). All In. All Year Events Calendar. 41.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/all_in/2020/events/41
Movement and Migration Series Lecture: Slaughterhouse South: Migration, Ethnoracial Boundaries, and the Social Organization of Labor
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
Drawing on sixteen months of work as a meatpacker in a North Carolina slaughterhouse, Vanesa Ribas investigates the intergroup dynamics between migrants and native-born workers, showing how the experience of oppressive exploitation mediates relations between Latina/o migrants, African Americans, and whites. Challenging conventional accounts, this research reveals the continued significance of white supremacy in the emerging arrangement of group statuses, experiences, and relations in a vastly transformed ethnoracial landscape. Vanesa Ribas is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She studies race/ethnicity, migration, labor, political mobilization, and social inequalities.