David Embrick

Biographic Data

ID239444
NAMEDavid Embrick
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEEmbrick
SIGNATUREEMBRICK D
AFFILIATIONSLoyola University Chicago
ORCID0000-0002-4380-053X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS623
AUTHOR COUNT52
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX11

  • Capitalism, Racism, and Trumpism: Whitelash and the Politics of Oppression

    David G Embrick, David Embrick et al.ARTICLEFast Capitalism2026

    That the rising tide of fascism, headwinds of neoliberalism, or persistence of racism in the United States is institutional, systemic, and part of a long history of oppression towards various groups is not new news. The bigger question is how we got to a point in which overt manifestations of racism, sexism, faux democracy, and other forms of illegality and authoritarianism has once again become normalized. What does it mean when a sitting Presid…

  • The Urge(ncy) to Practice Humanist Sociology

    Open AccessDaina Cheyenne Harvey, David G Embrick et al.ARTICLEHumanity & Society2026References: 19

    In this issue, the first of two special issues to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, we look back at our origins and reassert the important of doing humanist sociology. Now, more than ever, the contributors to this special issue feel that the type of sociology that we teach and practice is essential to the betterment of our profession, but also, and more importantly, to the betterment of our society

  • Racial Capitalism and Whitelash: Trumpism and the Politics of Oppression Redux–A New Normal or Just New Perfume in an Old Bottle

    Bhoomi K Thakore, J Scott Carter et al.ARTICLEFast Capitalism2025

    There is no question that Donald Trump’s actions in his second presidential term have many people bewildered, shocked, and frightened. What was deemed “not normal” in his first term in office has quickly become the “new normal.” In this paper, we argue that part of the explanation for the rise, and repeated rise, of Trumpism lies in Donald Trump’s ability to fuel and maintain a whitelash against the social progress of the 20th and early 21st cent…

  • Series Editor Preface

    David G Embrick, David EmbrickCHAPTERCritical Race Theory and the…2024

  • Apartheid in the Twenty-first Century: Racial Capitalism and the Struggles in Palestine

    Open AccessJohnny E Williams, Johnny Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Holy Land and…2024

    Apartheid has become an increasingly important framework for understanding and challenging Israeli rule in Palestine. The Apartheid Convention states apartheid is a crime against humanity. We contend what is missing from this definition of apartheid is an economic and ontological link. Although the current legal definition focuses solely on the political regime, it does not provide a strong basis for critiquing the economic aspects of a settler c…

  • Camouflaging colonialism: A case study of a NeoColonial Museum

    Silvia Dominguez, Simón E Weffer-Elizondo et al.ARTICLEVisual Studies2024Cited by: 1References: 26

  • Moving Beyond Obfuscating Racial Microaggression Discourse

    Open AccessJohnny Williams, David EmbrickARTICLESocial Inclusion2023Cited by: 2References: 12

    In this article, we argue that the concept of racial microaggression is a white supremacy construct that is an ideological and discursive anti‐Black practice. We discuss how microaggressions’ reduction of historical and hegemonic white supremacy to everyday relations that are merely performative, not integral to sustaining such larger forces, is an analytical shortcoming. We contend that without the adequate heft of historical white supremacy as …

  • Sociology for Whom? Real Conversations and Critical Engagements in Amerikkka

    Open AccessDavid G Embrick, David EmbrickARTICLEHumanity & Society2023Cited by: 3References: 9

    Sociology, like most disciplines/institutions in racialized (and other oppressive) social systems, are steeped with policies and practices that are designed to maintain the status quo. Thus, they are partly responsible for the gatekeeping, careerism, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination that plague our scholarly communities. In this piece, an extension of my 2018 Presidential Address to the Association for Humanist Sociology, I chall…

  • Alienation, Racial Capitalism, and the Racialization of Palestinians

    Open AccessDavid Embrick, Johnny Williams et al.ARTICLECritical Sociology2023Cited by: 1References: 11

    In this paper, we outline the contours of the history of oppression toward Palestinians to discern how the settler colonial racial capitalist state of Israel generates alienation in Palestinians. To accomplish this, we explore how the Global North disregards and/or participates in propping up Israel's oppressive structural processes for stripping Palestinians of their land, resources, and identity. This includes the Palestinian healthcare system …

  • Tearing Down to Take Up Space: Dismantling White Spaces in the United States

    Open AccessDavid G Embrick, David Embrick et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2022Cited by: 3References: 29

    With this concluding article, we build off the scholarship from this two-part special issue on white space to recommend meaningful interventions that seek to challenge and dismantle white spaces at the organizational, institutional, and structural levels of U.S. society. We focus on two broad arenas of social space, one geographical (residential neighborhoods) and one institutional (education), in the hopes of generating more engagement from scho…

  • The Cultural and the Racial: Stitching Together the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and the Sociology of Culture

    Open AccessDavid L Brunsma, David G Embrick et al.ARTICLESociological Inquiry2022References: 6

    Sociology subdisciplines are notorious for being siloed in their respective fields of study. This is sometimes more noticeable in those arenas that surprisingly (to some) do not make sense, as there are bound to be greater sociological insights gleamed from an intra-subdisciplinary approach that allow for better synthesis of theory(ies) or even epistemology(ies). In this piece, we issue a challenge to the need for more sociological engagement tha…

  • There and Back Again: Reflections on Where We Were At, Where We Are Now, and Where We are Going

    Open AccessDavid L Brunsma, David G Embrick et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2021

  • The Mothers and Fathers of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: Learning from Them in Eight Lessons

    Open AccessDavid L Brunsma, David G Embrick et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2021

    In this Editorial Feature Review, we reached out to senior race/racism and ethnicity scholars who have theoretically, epistemologically, and empirically contributed in major ways to what we now call the sociology of race and ethnicity. We wanted to pay our respects to these mothers and fathers of the discipline and the gifts that they have given our discipline over their careers. Our review was guided by a set of six key questions that cover thei…

  • Capitalism, Racism, and Trumpism: Whitelash and the Politics of Oppression

    Open AccessDavid Embrick, J Scott Carter et al.ARTICLEFast Capitalism2020

    That the rising tide of fascism, headwinds of neoliberalism, or persistence of racism in the United States is institutional, systemic, and part of a long history of oppression towards various groups is not new news. The bigger question is how we got to a point in which overt manifestations of racism, sexism, faux democracy, and other forms of illegality and authoritarianism has once again become normalized. What does it mean when a sitting Presid…

  • Racial microaggressions: Bridging psychology and sociology and future research considerations

    Open AccessSilvia Dominguez, David EmbrickARTICLESociology Compass2020Cited by: 8References: 11

    This article reviews racial microaggressions, specifically psychology and sociology's historical trajectory in informing existing literatures and disciplines, in its connections to meso and macro levels of systemic racism. In doing so, we contend that a sociological understanding of racial microaggressions presents opportunities to better understand the cumulative and deleterious effects of racial violence on racialized groups. Furthermore, we ar…

  • White Space(s) and the Reproduction of White Supremacy

    Open AccessDavid G Embrick, David Embrick et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2020Cited by: 20References: 19

    In the past two decades, social scientists have begun to explicitly interrogate the racialized economic, political, cultural, and ideological mechanisms of social space. This work interrogates the overt and covert racial organization of social spaces and the ways in which systemic White supremacy is facilitated by racialized space. Drawing on and synthesizing that work we explicate a critical theory of White space, explicating how geographical, p…

  • White Sanctuaries: White Supremacy, Racism, Space, and Fine Arts in Two Metropolitan Museums

    Open AccessSilvia Dominguez, Simón E Weffer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2020Cited by: 7References: 13

    In this article, we compare two nationally recognized museums located in Chicago and Boston: The Art Institute of Chicago and the Boston Fine Arts Museum. We find that while both museums are colonial projects and White sanctuaries, there are variations in the racial mechanisms in place that help maintain White supremacy. Specifically, we look at three such mechanisms and compare and contrast between the two museums. We contend our findings sugges…

  • Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century

    David G Embrick, David Embrick et al.BOOKChallenging the Status Quo2019

    In Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century, David G. Embrick, Sharon M. Collins, and Michelle Dodson have compiled the latest ideas and scholarship in the area of diversity and inclusion. The contributors in this edited book offer critical analyses on many aspects of diversity as it pertains to institutional policies, practices, discourse, and beliefs. The book is broken down into 19 chapters over 7 sect…

  • Decolonizing a Discipline: Rethinking Sociology in a Changing World

    Open AccessChriss Sneed, David G Embrick et al.ARTICLEHumanity & Society2019Cited by: 2References: 9

  • White sanctuaries: Race and place in art museums

    Open AccessDavid G Embrick, David Embrick et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019Cited by: 11References: 7

    Purpose This paper examines the Art Institute of Chicago – a nationally recognized museum – as a white sanctuary, i.e., a white institutional space within a racialized social system that serves to reassure whites of their dominant position in society. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how museums create and maintain white spaces within the greater context of being an institution for the general public. Design/methodology/approach The empi…

  • White Trash and White Supremacy: An Analysis of the James Byrd Jr. and Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes

    Open AccessCarol S Walther, David Embrick et al.CHAPTERSystemic Racism2017

    Using the deaths of James Byrd Jr. and Matthew Shepard as case studies, the authors analyze these two hate crimes through a content analysis of newspapers to explore white racial framing. They argue that Shepard was portrayed in the media by his whiteness and middle-class status, rather than his homosexuality. In contrast, Byrd was either ignored or demonized as a lower-class criminal. Furthermore, Shepard’s killers came to epitomize the lower cl…

  • Discontents Within the Discipline: Sociological Hypnagogia, Negligence, and Denial

    David G Embrick, David EmbrickARTICLESocial Problems2017Cited by: 6References: 9

    This essay represents an extended version of my comments presented at the 2016 American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meetings town hall held in Seattle, Washington. I offer my thanks to Professor Aldon Morris for his gracious invitation to serve as a panelist on this important topic. This opportunity cracked open the door and allowed some of us to provide our thoughts on the myriad ways that we, as individual sociologists and a collectiv…

  • On the Recent Attacks and Violence toward Progressive Scholars

    Open AccessDavid G Embrick, David Embrick et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2017

  • Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia

    Open AccessDavid L Brunsma, David G Embrick et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2017Cited by: 23References: 41

    The graduate student experience, for many, can be a time of great stress, insecurity, and uncertainty. Overwhelmingly, studies verify that good mentoring is one of the best indicators of graduate student success. In this literature review, we outline in detail previous research that attest to these experiences, and pay specific attention to the experiences of students of color. In general, our read of the literature suggests that academia, in gen…

  • More than Just Insults: Rethinking Sociology's Contribution to Scholarship on Racial Microaggressions

    Open AccessDavid G Embrick, David Embrick et al.ARTICLESociological Inquiry2017Cited by: 28References: 40

    Our goal with this special issue is to expand currently untapped ideas about racial microaggressions from a sociological point of view. As noted, research on this issue comes largely out of psychiatry, psychology, and education-disciplines that tend to place less emphasis on structural and institutional causes of racism. There is a need for more sociologically guided research to examine how subtle, covert, and non-apparent forms of racism affect …