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Department
Sociology
Phone
313-577-2930
Fax
313-577-2735
Office
#2263
Selected publications
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2023. Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation. New York: New York University Press.
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2022. “The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment.” Sociological Forum 37(1): 177-199.
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2022. “‘You Should Be Proud!’ Native-Themed Mascots and the Cultural Reproduction of White Settler Space.” Sociological Inquiry 92(2): 417-441.
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2019. “Resisting and Reifying Racialization among Urban American Indians.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(4): 570-588.
*Scholarly Achievement Award winner, North Central Sociological Society (NCSA), 2022
Research Description
I study racial and ethnic inequalities. My research reveals historical processes that have shaped contemporary meanings applied to racial and ethnic minority group members in the United States. I am particularly interested in how controlling images (or stereotypes) disseminated within the broader society impact the day-to-day lives of racial/ethnic group members. I look at how members of racial/ethnic groups both internalize and resist these false images and ideas. To date I have focused on the impacts of controlling images of Indianness on urban American Indian people, but in the future would like to extend this research to other racial and ethnic minority groups. I am also interested in how race and gender intersect to create unique experiences of oppression and strategies of resistance for members of historically oppressed groups.