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.
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JT Thomas discusses Du Bois in Germany.
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Today my grad seminar finished up our reading and discussion of McKee’s Sociology and the Race Problem (1993). I had my students diagram McKee’s main argument - the failed perspective - beginning at the turn of the 20th century through the Civil Rights era.
Another 🔥🔥 issue. Many thanks to our authors, reviewers, and the whole Sociology of Race & Ethnicity team. Volume 10, Issue 1 marks the 10th anniversary of our journal. I’m so honored to be a part of it. journals.sagepub.com/toc/srea/10/1
Congrats!!