This paper analyzes the ways in which illegals simultaneously function as threatening and vulnerable others. Both positionings work to reinforce sovereignty (of the nation and of the citizen) as ideal-type and, I argue, undermine a more productive approach that sees the limits of sovereignty and...

Charles Mills has outlined racialized ways of knowing which he identifies as an epistemology of ignorance, necessary to maintain white privilege in the context of commitments to formal equality. Ignorance is maintained both through racist systems of knowing as well as through systematized...

This paper uses in depth interviews with the directors of Departments of Human Service Agencies in 29 counties of Appalachian Ohio, a rural area of persistent poverty, to examine their perspectives on the effects of welfare reform on their agencies and communities. We compare these views from...