Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper examines the first etiquette text by Emily Post. I examine the text for the rhetorical strategies Post employs to follow the conventions of etiquette manuals, but break the convention of exclusivity. The success of Post’s text is due to her ability to navigate the dichotomous roles of conventionality and unconventionality. The success of this text was dependant on the cultural milieu, as etiquette manuals changed to meet the changing ideals of American society.

Publication Type: Research Report
Abstract: In this paper we characterise the growth of collective mathematical understanding as an improvisational process. Drawing on elements of improvisational theory, in particular the notion of etiquette, to analyse extracts of classroom video data, we demonstrate how this theoretical framework can illuminate and inform collaborative group processes in a mathematics classroom.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Within the workplace, professional etiquette is a major ingredient in decision-making about an individual’s work space, location, integration, acceptance, and occupational mobility. Who we are dictates where we fit and how we are received. These sentiments and behavioral expectations act as directives position, which frame our ways of participating in society. For African American women, these informal and formal proscriptions are vital to their well-being and advancement in the workplace. African American women‘s desire to be promoted to managerial posts is determined by their relative gain in job rewards, but also by their etiquette, measured by the amount of emotional labor they perform. If they desire a promotion, they ponder if they will receive decision-making responsibilities and authority, prestige, resources, status, pecuniary benefits, and opportunities to continue advancing within their employing organization’s hierarchy. These women continue to follow these informal and formal proscriptions, despite their behavior being tied to their emotional labor and advancement. This paper describes African American women’s etiquette and emotional labor contests as they work toward advancement into managerial levels.

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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between the Black news press and Black protest politics from 1956-1969. The study analyzes a popular etiquette cartoon entitled "Do's and Don'ts." "Do's and Don'ts" was featured in several African American newspapers during this period and beyond. The paper specifically explores how the prescriptions offered for black behavior changes over the course of the civil rights movement with particular regard to whether the mainstream black press changes as large segments of the movement radicalize.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Likelihood of marijuana-related police stop/search or arrest depends on many factors other than simply engaging in marijuana-related activity. Police are assumed to suspect individuals of marijuana-related offenses based on several personal characteristics, including ethnicity, age, gender, age, educational level, and subculture. An individual’s likelihood of marijuana-related police contact is hypothesized to depend on how strongly this suspicion, the “police gaze,” falls on them, independently of their actual participation in public marijuana use. A diverse, street-recruited, purposive sample of 462 marijuana users in New York City completed questionnaires for this study. Several factors, including racial minority status, neighborhood in which the participant was recruited, gender, unemployed/non-student status, youth, and lower educational level were found to be simultaneously and independently related to likelihood of marijuana-related police contact even controlling for frequency of use, public use, and observance of etiquette intended to make the behavior less of a nuisance. Etiquette was found, moreover, to be differentially effective based on race, location, and gender: Predicted probability of marijuana-related police contact was roughly 50% for African-Americans, males, and users recruited from Harlem or the South Bronx who observed none of the etiquettes and 10% or less if they followed all four. By contrast, predicted probability of marijuana-related police contact for whites, females, and users recruited from non-poverty areas of Manhattan hovered around or below 10% regardless of etiquette observance. The odds of marijuana-related police contact for Latinos were more than three times the odds for whites. Results bear out that centrality to the “police gaze” dramatically influences an individual’s likelihood of marijuana-related police stop/search and arrest independently of whether they engaged in any marijuana-related illegal behavior.