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SUMMARY:Sociology Lunchtime Seminar: Non-White Meta-Categories in the US a
 nd UK: Unpacking the Language of Diversity and Racial Justice. - Mari Sanc
 hez\, Doctoral Student in Sociology\, Harvard University
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CONTACT:Abigail Youngman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mari Sanchez\, Doctoral Student in Sociology\, Harvar
 d University\n\nChair: Dr Ali Meghji\, Associate Professor in Social Inequ
 alities\, University of Cambridge\n\nAbstract:\nMari Sanchez’s research 
 offers a comparative-relational study of what she calls “non-white meta-
 categories” – umbrella categories that encapsulate or refer collective
 ly to populations considered not white – in the US and UK. In the US\, n
 on-white meta-categories include “people of color” (POC)\, “Black\, 
 Indigenous\, and People of Color” (BIPOC) and “minority”\; in the UK
 \, these include “Politically Black” and variations of “minority eth
 nic” such as “Black and Minority Ethnic” (BME) or “Black\, Asian\,
  Minority Ethnic” (BAME).\n\nWhile racial justice and State actors have 
 used non-white meta-categories in both countries since the 1960s\, the cat
 egories have increasingly become unsettled by progressive and conservative
  actors leading up to 2020. In this talk\, she examines these changes by f
 ocusing on civil society thought leaders in each country\, including activ
 ists\, public intellectuals\, social media influencers\, and other public 
 figures\, who are actively creating\, transforming\, and debating meanings
  about the categories. She argues that non-white meta-categories shape ass
 umptions about the commonalities and differences of marginalized communiti
 es\, illuminate certain racial inequalities while obscuring others\, and i
 nform pathways to achieve racial justice.\n\nMari Sanchez is a Doctoral St
 udent in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research interests lie at th
 e intersection of race/ethnicity and cultural sociology\, focusing on ques
 tions of ethnoracial boundaries\, classification\, and knowledge productio
 n.
LOCATION:Sociology Department Seminar Room\, Free School Lane
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