This week my graduate students and I examined some of the contemporary scholarship on colonialism, postcolonialism, and the post-9/11 era. We had an especially generative discussion on the racialization of Muslims

This week my graduate students and I began Rawls and Duck’s (2020) Tacit Racism, putting it in conversation with Du Bois and Blumer. Our conversation today focused on the inner workings of racialized interaction orders

This week my graduate students and I read and discussed Karen and Barbara Fields’s Racecraft. We spent a good deal of our discussion going through the various mechanisms that undergird Racecraft: sumptuary codes, rituals of deference and domination, and the language of blood

Really great conversation on how struggle and contestation between the racial state and social movements shapes how power and resources are distributed across racial lines

This week, we are finishing up Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, reading Part III and pairing it with readings from Eva Garroutte (2001), Mattias Smångs (2016), and Hana Brown (2020)

We began with the key concepts, and I asked them to work together to illustrate racial formation theory and the role racial projects play within it

This week, my students are reading the first half of Omi and Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States. They’re pairing that with Joe Feagin and Sean Elias’s 2013 critique, and Omi and Winant’s response to that critique, in Ethnic & Racial Studies

Today in class, we outlined the ten theses of the racial contract, and mapped the relations between each.

Today in class, we outlined the ten theses of the racial contract, and mapped the relations between each.

This week, my students and I turn toward an essential text in the field’s canon: Charles Mills’s The Racial Contract. We will pair this text with the 1997-1999 debate in ASR between Bonilla-Silva and Loveman over, to borrow from Mills, the social ontology of race.