He will be in residence at the Glasscock Center during the fall 2012 semester. Professor Jewell will pursue the research topic “Troubling Gentility: Race and Middle Class Identity in Late Nineteenth Century America.” He studies the ways in which minority races encountered, negotiated, and contested the inscription of whiteness into middle-class identity. His study centers around three populations: blacks in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, and Chinese Americans in San Francisco, California. He will conduct his research using a cultural analysis of documentary sources, including census data, tax digests, city directories, and private documents. His research into the formation and defense of middle-class identity will be presented in a book and will form a more complete picture of the American middle-class.