Public and Academic Questions on Race

The Problem with Racial Controversies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12134956
AutoresJeffrey Dowd (Department of Sociology Davison Hall 26 Nichol Avenue New Brunswick New Jersey 08903, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen29
Número2
Páginas496-502
Fecha de publicación2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0884-8971 • E-ISSN: 1573-7861
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/socf.12094
OpenAlexW2063430217
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

This essay offers an in‐depth look at how some national discussions of race serve to heighten divisions and to distort Americans' understandings of racism. First, I contend that these controversies produce questions that create racial and partisan divisions. In other words, they focus on who or which group is guilty of racism. Second, I argue that such questions about racism depart from the kinds of questions that sociologists seek to answer. As such, racial controversies move the public away from applying a sociological imagination to the problem of racism

Anti-racism · Criminology · Psychometrics of racism · Race (biology · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics