W Carson Byrd
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88189 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W Carson Byrd |
| NOMBRES | W Carson |
| APELLIDO | Byrd |
| FIRMA | BYRD W C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0769-0983 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Toward Clarifying Mechanisms of Racism as Fundamental Causes of Educational Inequality
This article proposes adopting fundamental cause theory (FCT) in education research. FCT’s emergence and application in medical sociology can serve as an example of integrating relational theories of inequality with causal designs to propose more effective interventions to address racialized educational disparities. Additionally, despite the many contributions from the expanding scholarship in critical quantitative and computational methods, limi…
The Mechanisms of Ethnoracialization and Asian American Support for Race-conscious Admissions
Recent studies on political attitude formations have developed the ethnoracialization framework, which emphasizes the roles of racial hierarchies and ethnic identities interconnected with national origins. However, existing research has not established analytical strategies to incorporate this framework, leaving a gap between theory and practice. We propose an alternative analytical model to examine ethnoracialized political attitudes using the c…
Major curricula as structures for disciplinary acculturation that contribute to student minoritization
Institutions of higher learning are characterized by multiple, often intersecting, social-educational structures aimed at regulating the conditions by which a degree is ultimately granted. The sequence of courses that students must take for a degree is one such structure. Building on the Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses (SEISMIC) Collaboration’s prior work, we provide a comparative view of students’ pathways through selecte…
A promise kept for whom? College access, success, and the limits of race-neutral tuition-free programs
Unassailable Ideas
Pages of Sociological Imagination
A brief reflection of the past five years as Book Review Editor of Contexts and a list of books that spark editorial team members’ sociological imaginations
Why Two Reviews are Still not Enough
An introduction to a mini symposium on Jennifer Hirsch’s and Shamus Khan’s Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Racial Identity Among Blacks and Whites in the U.S
Perceived Covid-19 health threat increases psychological distress among Black Americans
The present study used data from the American Trends Panel to examine the interplay between the perceived COVID-19 health threat, discriminatory beliefs in medical settings, and psychological distress among Black Americans. We measured psychological distress as an average of five items modified from two established scales and used self-reports of perceived COVID-19 health threat and beliefs about discrimination in medical settings as focal predic…
Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University
Demanding attention
Race on the Brain
Hillbillies, Genetic Pathology, and White Ignorance
Leading up to and since the 2016 presidential election, a recurring theme focusing on poor whites' role in carrying the Republican nominee to victory gained further credence with the popularity and wide readership of J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Peddling stereotypes of Appalachia as a white dystopia with a backward mountain culture, the memoir seemingly turned the use of culture-of-poverty arguments on whites themselves. Through an examination …
We Eat to Live, We Live to Eat
In this introduction to the special issue on “Foodways and Inequality: Toward a Sociology of Food Culture and Movements,” we describe our path to the sociological study inequality through food, and how the articles included in this special issue fit this framework. The overarching goal of this issue is to present a multifaceted approach to studying food from more cultural and structural perspectives. In particular, the authors take varied approac…
Inflective and reflective whiteness in the sociology of race and ethnicity
Zulema Valdez and Tanya Golash-Boza offer an integrative framework for the sociology of race and ethnicity to bridge a divide undergirding different, yet related perspectives in the field. Their work provides an initial roadmap for linking the cultural perspectives often taken in the study of ethnicity to the structural perspectives utilized in the study of race. The authors put these perspectives in dialogue with one another to elucidate the str…
The vitality of social media for establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement
Social media provides scholars with important portals into the lives of marginalized communities and the movements organized to combat issues of race and racism in society. However, how to incorporate the seemingly unwieldy amount of social media data for research in our fields can pose challenges to further clarify how people navigate our social world and the issues with in it, but also how they organize to push for social change and equality. I…
Racial Authenticity and Familial Acceptance Among Transracial Adoptees
Transracial adoption in the United States has increased significantly in recent years. Crossing the color line within the intimate familial sphere has important implications for how institutions such as the family enable and constrain individuals' identity work. We explore how transracial family members utilize racial stereotypes and racialist understandings in everyday life, employing 30 in-depth, life-story interviews with both transracial adop…
Between (Racial) Groups and a Hard Place
As the social sciences expand their involvement in genetic and genomic research, more information is needed to understand how theoretical concepts are applied to genetic data found in social surveys. Given the layers of complexity of studying race in relation to genetics and genomics, it is important to identify the varying approaches used to discuss and operationalize race and identity by social scientists. The present study explores how social …
The Social Life of DNA
The "Sick" Racist
Since the early 1960s, there has been a movement among activists, scholars, and policymakers to redefine racism as a psychopathological condition, identifiable and treatable through psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions. This development reflects, and is reflected by, the popular framing among mass media and ordinary social actors of racism and racist events as individual pathology rather than as a social problem. This shifting pers…
The Foundation of Racial Disparities in the Standardized Testing Era
We present a historical outline of racial inequality in Virginia’s kindergarten through 12th grade educational system focusing on de jure school desegregation and subsequent massive resistance following Virginia’s role in Brown v. Board of Education. Currently, standardized tests are used to evaluate students’ educational progress and knowledge, evaluate teacher and administrative effectiveness, and measure states’ educational efforts. In this ar…
Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism
Beautiful Melodies Telling Me Terrible Things
To conclude this volume, we first engage in a brief history of scientific racism and the extent to which it resonates with the public. We then attempt to explain why American society and culture continue to fall prey to the seduction of biological determinism and racial essentialism: (1) the DNA mystique, (2) scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts, (3) the ethno-politics of genetics, (4) dismissals of social science as "soft," (5) the defense…
Ultimate Attribution in the Genetic Era
This study uses a nationally representative survey to examine the relationship between attitudes about genetics and race. We focus on the ways in which negative out-group behavior can be explained as innate and genetic (Pettigrew's "ultimate attribution error"), and how this may underlie racial prejudice and racial individualism-the notion that individual capabilities, not structural inequality or discrimination, drive racial stratification. We e…
We Don't All Look Alike
The examination of student group performance is a constant need as American higher education continues to expand and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Recent scholarship on the academic performance of Black students at elite colleges and universities has glossed over possible disparities among these students, particularly among different immigrant groups. The current study clarifies these differences in academic performance by examinin…
Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism
The souls of white folk beyond formation and structure
Omi and Winant's Racial Formations (1994) and Feagin's Systemic Racism (2006) and White Racial Frame (2010) provide robust analyses of race, racism and racial inequality. Yet, both models hold distinctive, even antagonistic, assumptions on how white racial identities are formed and their relationship to (anti-)racism. We point to a theoretical synthesis of the strengths of both paradigms that centres on 'hegemonic whiteness' (Hughey 2010, 2012a) …
Conflating Apples and Oranges
Social scientists generally agree that the post‐Civil Rights form of racism is different from that which existed in the Jim Crow‐era in the United States. However, beyond this agreement, what exactly modern racism is and “looks like” is debatable. With this in mind, a surprising and somewhat disturbing trend frequently occurs among social scientists that can have real consequences within academia and the general public: conflation. In naming a ne…
Ultimate Attribution in the Genetic Era
This study uses a nationally representative survey to examine the relationship between attitudes about genetics and race. We focus on the ways in which negative out-group behavior can be explained as innate and genetic (Pettigrew's "ultimate attribution error"), and how this may underlie racial prejudice and racial individualism-the notion that individual capabilities, not structural inequality or discrimination, drive racial stratification. We e…
The vitality of social media for establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement
Social media provides scholars with important portals into the lives of marginalized communities and the movements organized to combat issues of race and racism in society. However, how to incorporate the seemingly unwieldy amount of social media data for research in our fields can pose challenges to further clarify how people navigate our social world and the issues with in it, but also how they organize to push for social change and equality. I…
Race on the Brain
The "Sick" Racist
Since the early 1960s, there has been a movement among activists, scholars, and policymakers to redefine racism as a psychopathological condition, identifiable and treatable through psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions. This development reflects, and is reflected by, the popular framing among mass media and ordinary social actors of racism and racist events as individual pathology rather than as a social problem. This shifting pers…
We Don't All Look Alike
The examination of student group performance is a constant need as American higher education continues to expand and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Recent scholarship on the academic performance of Black students at elite colleges and universities has glossed over possible disparities among these students, particularly among different immigrant groups. The current study clarifies these differences in academic performance by examinin…
Beautiful Melodies Telling Me Terrible Things
To conclude this volume, we first engage in a brief history of scientific racism and the extent to which it resonates with the public. We then attempt to explain why American society and culture continue to fall prey to the seduction of biological determinism and racial essentialism: (1) the DNA mystique, (2) scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts, (3) the ethno-politics of genetics, (4) dismissals of social science as "soft," (5) the defense…
A promise kept for whom? College access, success, and the limits of race-neutral tuition-free programs
Hillbillies, Genetic Pathology, and White Ignorance
Leading up to and since the 2016 presidential election, a recurring theme focusing on poor whites' role in carrying the Republican nominee to victory gained further credence with the popularity and wide readership of J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Peddling stereotypes of Appalachia as a white dystopia with a backward mountain culture, the memoir seemingly turned the use of culture-of-poverty arguments on whites themselves. Through an examination …
Demanding attention
We Eat to Live, We Live to Eat
In this introduction to the special issue on “Foodways and Inequality: Toward a Sociology of Food Culture and Movements,” we describe our path to the sociological study inequality through food, and how the articles included in this special issue fit this framework. The overarching goal of this issue is to present a multifaceted approach to studying food from more cultural and structural perspectives. In particular, the authors take varied approac…
Inflective and reflective whiteness in the sociology of race and ethnicity
Zulema Valdez and Tanya Golash-Boza offer an integrative framework for the sociology of race and ethnicity to bridge a divide undergirding different, yet related perspectives in the field. Their work provides an initial roadmap for linking the cultural perspectives often taken in the study of ethnicity to the structural perspectives utilized in the study of race. The authors put these perspectives in dialogue with one another to elucidate the str…
Racial Authenticity and Familial Acceptance Among Transracial Adoptees
Transracial adoption in the United States has increased significantly in recent years. Crossing the color line within the intimate familial sphere has important implications for how institutions such as the family enable and constrain individuals' identity work. We explore how transracial family members utilize racial stereotypes and racialist understandings in everyday life, employing 30 in-depth, life-story interviews with both transracial adop…
Between (Racial) Groups and a Hard Place
As the social sciences expand their involvement in genetic and genomic research, more information is needed to understand how theoretical concepts are applied to genetic data found in social surveys. Given the layers of complexity of studying race in relation to genetics and genomics, it is important to identify the varying approaches used to discuss and operationalize race and identity by social scientists. The present study explores how social …
The Foundation of Racial Disparities in the Standardized Testing Era
We present a historical outline of racial inequality in Virginia’s kindergarten through 12th grade educational system focusing on de jure school desegregation and subsequent massive resistance following Virginia’s role in Brown v. Board of Education. Currently, standardized tests are used to evaluate students’ educational progress and knowledge, evaluate teacher and administrative effectiveness, and measure states’ educational efforts. In this ar…
Conflating Apples and Oranges
Social scientists generally agree that the post‐Civil Rights form of racism is different from that which existed in the Jim Crow‐era in the United States. However, beyond this agreement, what exactly modern racism is and “looks like” is debatable. With this in mind, a surprising and somewhat disturbing trend frequently occurs among social scientists that can have real consequences within academia and the general public: conflation. In naming a ne…
Intellectual Change in Black Studies
The souls of white folk beyond formation and structure
Omi and Winant's Racial Formations (1994) and Feagin's Systemic Racism (2006) and White Racial Frame (2010) provide robust analyses of race, racism and racial inequality. Yet, both models hold distinctive, even antagonistic, assumptions on how white racial identities are formed and their relationship to (anti-)racism. We point to a theoretical synthesis of the strengths of both paradigms that centres on 'hegemonic whiteness' (Hughey 2010, 2012a) …
We Don't All Look Alike
The examination of student group performance is a constant need as American higher education continues to expand and become more racially and ethnically diverse. Recent scholarship on the academic performance of Black students at elite colleges and universities has glossed over possible disparities among these students, particularly among different immigrant groups. The current study clarifies these differences in academic performance by examinin…
The Foundation of Racial Disparities in the Standardized Testing Era
We present a historical outline of racial inequality in Virginia’s kindergarten through 12th grade educational system focusing on de jure school desegregation and subsequent massive resistance following Virginia’s role in Brown v. Board of Education. Currently, standardized tests are used to evaluate students’ educational progress and knowledge, evaluate teacher and administrative effectiveness, and measure states’ educational efforts. In this ar…
Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism
Beautiful Melodies Telling Me Terrible Things
To conclude this volume, we first engage in a brief history of scientific racism and the extent to which it resonates with the public. We then attempt to explain why American society and culture continue to fall prey to the seduction of biological determinism and racial essentialism: (1) the DNA mystique, (2) scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts, (3) the ethno-politics of genetics, (4) dismissals of social science as "soft," (5) the defense…
Ultimate Attribution in the Genetic Era
This study uses a nationally representative survey to examine the relationship between attitudes about genetics and race. We focus on the ways in which negative out-group behavior can be explained as innate and genetic (Pettigrew's "ultimate attribution error"), and how this may underlie racial prejudice and racial individualism-the notion that individual capabilities, not structural inequality or discrimination, drive racial stratification. We e…
Between (Racial) Groups and a Hard Place
As the social sciences expand their involvement in genetic and genomic research, more information is needed to understand how theoretical concepts are applied to genetic data found in social surveys. Given the layers of complexity of studying race in relation to genetics and genomics, it is important to identify the varying approaches used to discuss and operationalize race and identity by social scientists. The present study explores how social …
The Social Life of DNA
The "Sick" Racist
Since the early 1960s, there has been a movement among activists, scholars, and policymakers to redefine racism as a psychopathological condition, identifiable and treatable through psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions. This development reflects, and is reflected by, the popular framing among mass media and ordinary social actors of racism and racist events as individual pathology rather than as a social problem. This shifting pers…
We Eat to Live, We Live to Eat
In this introduction to the special issue on “Foodways and Inequality: Toward a Sociology of Food Culture and Movements,” we describe our path to the sociological study inequality through food, and how the articles included in this special issue fit this framework. The overarching goal of this issue is to present a multifaceted approach to studying food from more cultural and structural perspectives. In particular, the authors take varied approac…
Inflective and reflective whiteness in the sociology of race and ethnicity
Zulema Valdez and Tanya Golash-Boza offer an integrative framework for the sociology of race and ethnicity to bridge a divide undergirding different, yet related perspectives in the field. Their work provides an initial roadmap for linking the cultural perspectives often taken in the study of ethnicity to the structural perspectives utilized in the study of race. The authors put these perspectives in dialogue with one another to elucidate the str…
The vitality of social media for establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement
Social media provides scholars with important portals into the lives of marginalized communities and the movements organized to combat issues of race and racism in society. However, how to incorporate the seemingly unwieldy amount of social media data for research in our fields can pose challenges to further clarify how people navigate our social world and the issues with in it, but also how they organize to push for social change and equality. I…
Racial Authenticity and Familial Acceptance Among Transracial Adoptees
Transracial adoption in the United States has increased significantly in recent years. Crossing the color line within the intimate familial sphere has important implications for how institutions such as the family enable and constrain individuals' identity work. We explore how transracial family members utilize racial stereotypes and racialist understandings in everyday life, employing 30 in-depth, life-story interviews with both transracial adop…
Demanding attention
Race on the Brain
Hillbillies, Genetic Pathology, and White Ignorance
Leading up to and since the 2016 presidential election, a recurring theme focusing on poor whites' role in carrying the Republican nominee to victory gained further credence with the popularity and wide readership of J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. Peddling stereotypes of Appalachia as a white dystopia with a backward mountain culture, the memoir seemingly turned the use of culture-of-poverty arguments on whites themselves. Through an examination …
Why Two Reviews are Still not Enough
An introduction to a mini symposium on Jennifer Hirsch’s and Shamus Khan’s Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Racial Identity Among Blacks and Whites in the U.S
Perceived Covid-19 health threat increases psychological distress among Black Americans
The present study used data from the American Trends Panel to examine the interplay between the perceived COVID-19 health threat, discriminatory beliefs in medical settings, and psychological distress among Black Americans. We measured psychological distress as an average of five items modified from two established scales and used self-reports of perceived COVID-19 health threat and beliefs about discrimination in medical settings as focal predic…
Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University
Pages of Sociological Imagination
A brief reflection of the past five years as Book Review Editor of Contexts and a list of books that spark editorial team members’ sociological imaginations
Major curricula as structures for disciplinary acculturation that contribute to student minoritization
Institutions of higher learning are characterized by multiple, often intersecting, social-educational structures aimed at regulating the conditions by which a degree is ultimately granted. The sequence of courses that students must take for a degree is one such structure. Building on the Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses (SEISMIC) Collaboration’s prior work, we provide a comparative view of students’ pathways through selecte…
A promise kept for whom? College access, success, and the limits of race-neutral tuition-free programs
Sociology (26 obras) · Gender Studies (20 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Racism (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Law (9 obras)