2007 Annual Meeting | Author Meets Critics Panels | American Sociological Association

Author Meets Critics sessions bring authors of recent important books together with discussants chosen to provide different viewpoints. The 2007 Program Committee selected nine books published during 2004-2006 to be featured on this year’s program.

Complete listings of each book panel appear below.

Aberrations in Blackness: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
(University of Minnesota Press, 2004) by Roderick Ferguson
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	Organizer and Presider: Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland Critics: Deborah K. King, Dartmouth College Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University Author: Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota

The Art of Surrender
(University of Chicago Press, 2005) by Robin Wagner-Pacifici [Details]


	Organizer: Magali Sarfatti Larson, Temple University Presider: Douglas Porpora, Drexel University Critics: Michael Donnelly, Bard College George Steinmetz, University of Michigan Chandra Mukerjee, UC San Diego Author: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College

Blue-Chip Black
(University of California Press, 2006) by Karyn Lacy
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	Organizer and Presider: Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland Critics: Thomas Shapiro, Brandeis University Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware Bruce D. Haynes, University of California, Davis Author: Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan

The Civil Sphere
(Oxford University Press, 2006) by Jeffrey C. Alexander
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	Organizer: Magali Sarfatti Larson, Temple University Presider: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College Critics: Mustafa Emirbayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Peggy Somers, University of Michigan Jeff Weintraub, University of Pennsylvania Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University

Doormen
(University of Chicago Press, 2005) by Peter Bearman
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	Organizer and Presider: Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University and the City University of New York Critics: Julia Wrigley, City University of New York Graduate Center Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University Terry Williams, New School University Author: Peter Bearman, Columbia University

Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
(Oxford University Press, 2006) by Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen
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Organizer: Fred Block, University of California, Davis

Presider: Ryken Grattet, University of California, Davis

Critics: Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine
             David Jacobs, Ohio State
             Nolan McCarty, Politics, Princeton University
             Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara

Authors: Jeff Manza, Northwestern University
               Chris Uggen, University of Minnesota

Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
(University of California Press, 2006) by Robert Courtney Smith
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Organizer: Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University and the City
                   University of New York

Presider: Edward Telles, University of California, Los Angeles

Critics: Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
             Arlene Davilla, New York University
             David Kyle, University of California, Davis

Author: Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College and Graduate
              Center, City University of New York

Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
(University of Chicago Press, 2004) by Mario Luis Small
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Organizer: Fred Block, University of California, Davis

Presider: Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University and the City
                 University of New York

Critics: Elijah Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
             Nicole Marwell, Columbia University
             Rene Poitevin, Gallatin School, New York University
             Stephen Steinberg, Graduate Center, City
             University of New York

Author: Mario Luis Small, University of Chicago