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Michèle Lamont
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 162
Citations - 18950
Michèle Lamont is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociology of culture & Racism. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 160 publications receiving 17307 citations. Previous affiliations of Michèle Lamont include Princeton University & University of Michigan.
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Particular universalisms: North African immigrants respond to French racism
TL;DR: The authors describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs.
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EVERYDAY ANTIRACISM: Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African American Elite
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory study made a contribution to the literature on antiracism by unpacking the cultural categories through which everyday ant-racism is experienced and practiced by extraordinarily successful African Americans.
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Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Michèle Lamont,Graziella Moraes Silva,Jessica S. Welburn,Joshua Guetzkow,Nissim Mizrachi,Hanna Herzog,Elisa Reis +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the discriminatory experiences of African Americans, black Brazilians, and Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as Israeli Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi (Sephardic) Jews.
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From 'having' to 'being': self-worth and the current crisis of American society.
TL;DR: One possible way forward is broadening cultural membership by promoting new narratives of hope centered on a plurality of criteria of worth, 'ordinary universalism' and destigmatizing stigmatized groups.