Doctoral Dissertation Research: Symbolic Capital and the Construction of Race

jane ZaviscaDanielle HedegardUniversity of arizona这项研究解决了这样一个问题：不同的社会群体是如何象征性地构建种族和卡波耶拉来标记边界，主张意义，并获得物质和文化优势的？萨尔瓦多的卡波耶拉学院是观察种族建构的理想场所。这些学院吸引了寻求“真实”体验的国际游客，而游客的真实性与种族有关，因为萨尔瓦多市场的旅游经济遇到了“真实”？非裔巴西人的文化传统，如舞蹈、食物和卡波耶拉。通过旅游经济，有着不同背景和种族观念的人们在一个强烈互动的环境中相遇。卡泼卫勒舞学院。这些相互作用将通过密集的参与性观察，辅以对三所学院的实践者的深入访谈，从人种学的角度进行观察。这些学院都吸引了国际游客，但每个学院都吸引了不同的当地社会经济基础。低收入群体主要由深色皮肤的人组成，几乎无法进入旅游中心；中产阶级群体包括浅色皮肤和深色皮肤的人，可以进入旅游中心；低收入群体主要是深色皮肤的人，位于旅游中心。观察游客与不同社会经济群体的互动，为观察种族作为象征资本的建构提供了机会。它还使我们能够更好地理解群体转换符号资源的过程。竞赛吗?为当地卡波耶拉从业者提供文化和物质资源。更广泛的影响。该项目有助于正在进行的社会资本社会学研究，以及种族类别是如何产生的，并在巴西和美国研究人员之间建立了新的联系。

SES-0802059Jane ZaviscaDanielle HedegardUniversity of ArizonaThe research addresses the question of how do differently situated social groups symbolically construct race and capoeira to mark boundaries, claim meanings, and gain material and cultural advantage? Capoeira academies in Salvador are an ideal setting to observe the construction of race. These academies attract international tourists in search of an "authentic" experience, and authenticity for tourists relates to race as the tourist economy of Salvador markets encounters with ?authentic? Afro-Brazilian cultural traditions such as dance, food, and capoeira. Through the tourist economy, people with divergent backgrounds and conceptions of race meet in an intensely interactive setting ? capoeira academies. These interactions will be ethnographically observed through intensive participant observation, supplemented by in-depth interviews with practitioners, in three academies. These academies all attract international tourists, but each draws on a different local socioeconomic base ? a low-income group comprised of mostly dark-skinned individuals with little access to the tourist center, a middle-class group of both light and dark-skinned individuals with access to the tourist center, and a low-income group of mostly dark-skinned individuals located within the tourist center. Observing tourists in interaction with different socioeconomic groups provides an opportunity to observe constructions of race as symbolic capital. It also allows us to better understand the process through which groups convert a symbolic resource ? race ? into cultural and material resources for local capoeira practitioners. Broader Impact. The project contributes to ongoing sociological studies of social capital and how racial categories are created and forges new links between Brazilian and US researchers.