David L Brunsma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Brunsma |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunsma |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNSMA D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4626-7213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 717 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Humanism
In this article, we provide readers with a brief history of the philosophy, origin, and institutionalization of four seemingly-distinct disciplines (Anthropology, Psychology, Mathematics, and Medicine) to illustrate the undercurrents of humanistic paradigms that guide each. In delineating these undercurrents, and in reflecting on their histories with the philosophy of humanism, we aim to show readers that we collectively share a legacy of discipl…
Urban Regimes of Dispossession in the Global South: A New Debate
The Cultural and the Racial: Stitching Together the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and the Sociology of Culture
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
The Mothers and Fathers of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: Learning from Them in Eight Lessons
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…
The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning
This article focuses on processes of meaning making in White spaces as the glue that holds their social structures together. Understanding White spaces and how they operate necessitates theoretical development from a cultural perspective. The authors' research empirically engages with a wide range of White spaces-neighborhoods, subcultural scenes, craft breweries, online digital platforms, and academia, to name a few-and do so from a theoretical …
The Culture of White Space, the Racialized Production of Meaning, and the Jamband Scene
This study critically examines the subculture of the jamband scene, particularly that of the band Phish, through the notion of 'white space.' We demonstrate the existence of colorblind racism and denial of white privilege in the white space of Phish subculture, which is also emblematic of the jamband subculture at large. This study utilizes content analysis drawing from social media comments that react to an article written by Headcount, a politi…
Sociology for Human Rights: Approaches for Applying Theories and Methods
The Possessive Investment in White Sociology
In this feature review we explore the idea that the discipline is collectively, possessively invested in a particular version of itself-white sociology. We think through some of the key elements of this investment, its consequences, and explore possible ways to divest from it
The Color Complex (Revised): The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium
From my own flesh and blood: An exploratory examination of discrimination from family for Black/White Multiracial people
This qualitative study examined instances of racial discrimination from family members among 36 Black/White Multiracial individuals. Participants responded to discrimination by distancing themselves from family members, resisting, and/or dismissing discrimination. Discriminatory experiences made race more salient for participants. Participants reported feeling hurt, alienated, and confused following discrimination. Implications of findings for so…
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society: Race and Electronic Dance Music
"Special Issue of Popular Music and Society: Race and Electronic Dance Music." Rock Music Studies, 4(1), pp. 84–85
On the Recent Attacks and Violence toward Progressive Scholars
Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia
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…
Moving Beyond Cis-terhood: Determining Gender through Transgender Admittance Policies at U.S. Women’s Colleges
In 2013, controversy sparked student protests, campus debates, and national attention when Smith College denied admittance to Calliope Wong-a trans woman. Since then, eight women's colleges have revised their admissions policies to include different gender identities such as trans women and genderqueer people. Given the recency of such policies, we interrogate the ways the category 'woman' is determined through certain alignments of biology-, leg…
Racial Ideology in Electronic Dance Music Festival Promotional Videos
Black Studies are often disregarded as being pitifully parochial, brazenly polemical, and persistently pessimistic. Black academicians rooted in the Black Studies tradition often employ an epistemological framework that directly challenges colorblind ideologies of popular opinion. The mere inclusion of Black voices in mainstream media is not enough. Excluding racial experts from a Black Studies paradigm risks diminishing the complexity of racial …
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society: Race and Electronic Dance Music
Special Issue of Popular Music and Society: Race and Electronic Dance Music." Popular Music and Society, 39(4), pp. 482–483
Movements for Human Rights: Locally and Globally
Seeing the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity through Keywords and References
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, race, and color in Latin America
In the inaugural issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2015) in laying out what he saw as the most necessary theoretical developments in the sociology of race and ethnici
Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights
Toward a Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
On Moving Forward
Humanitarian violence: The US deployment of diversity
In Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity, Neda Atansasoski, an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz, weaves a powerful and urgent compa
Oh, you're racist? I've got a cure for that
It has recently been discovered that the beta blocker drug, propranolol, can potentially reduce implicit racial bias among its users. By acting upon the affective conditions associated with implicit racial bias functioning at the non-conscious and pre-conscious levels, researchers have expressed excitement about the potential of propranolol and similar drugs to decrease implicit racial attitudes, and, thus, potentially decrease racism. This study…
Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials
Current research on racial identity construction among biracial people derives primarily from small convenience samples and assumes that individuals with one black and one white parent have only two options for racial identity: “black” or “biracial.” Rockquemore's (1999) taxonomy of racial identity options is used as a framework to synthesize existing research and to generate hypotheses that are explored using survey data from a sample of 177 bir…
Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory
Empirical research on the growing multiracial population in the United States has focused largely on the documentation of racial identification, analysis of psychological adjustment, and understanding the broader political consequences of mixed‐race identification. Efforts toward theory construction on multiracial identity development, however, have been largely disconnected from empirical data, mired in disciplinary debates, and bound by histori…
Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed- Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to explore the structure of parental racial designation of mixed-race children. The variation in these parental designations of a variety of mixed-race children is described. Parental racial designations in the three most common majority-minority interracial couplings — White/Hispanic, Black/White and Asian/White —…
The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity
Ethnic identity research has largely focused on the identity choices of White ethnics (Alba, 1990; Ignatiev, 1995; Waters, 1990). One key factor in these choices is bodily appearance. We extend this research to Black and White Biracial individuals and examine the role that physical appearance plays in their "choices" of racial identity. We test Rockquemore's (1999) taxonomy of Biracial identity using survey data from a sample of 177 Biracial resp…
Teaching Race at Historically White Colleges and Universities: Identifying and Dismantling the Walls of Whiteness
In this article we outline the 'walls of whiteness' that make it difficult to teach the sociology of race and racism and make it difficult for students at historically white colleges and universities (HCWUs) to wrestle with these important issues. Most white students enter HWCUs surrounded by these walls - protecting them from attacks on white supremacy - that have multiple layers and therefore are even more difficult to penetrate; yet they must …
Negotiating Racial Identity: Biracial Women and Interactional Validation
Counseling research on racial identity development among multiracial people has largely overlooked the complexity of these individuals' social experiences and how their multiple realities result in various racial identities. The assumptions that individuals with one Black and one White parent can only understand themselves as "Black" or "biracial" have been socially, culturally and politically constructed, providing a misguided foundation for mod…
Public categories, private identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience
Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia
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…
Liminality in the Multiracial experience: Towards a Concept of Identity Matrix
Although researchers have investigated Multiracials for their racial identity 'choices', many scholars continue to conceptualise racial identity as monolithic. This article both problematises and extends the notion of racial identity with an 'identity matrix'. This concept grounds the sociological processes of constructing and deploying a racial identity as strategic and agentic in interactional, political, cultural, physical (embodiment) and ins…
The Possessive Investment in White Sociology
In this feature review we explore the idea that the discipline is collectively, possessively invested in a particular version of itself-white sociology. We think through some of the key elements of this investment, its consequences, and explore possible ways to divest from it
On the Contributions of Cognitive Sociology to the Sociological Study of Race
In this article, we argue for cognitive sociology as a framework for studying the sociology of race. Cognitive sociology concerns itself with classification, identity construction, meaning and collective memory and is thus centrally concerned with generic issues that apply well to racial category construction and maintenance. We, first, outline the cognitive sociology framework. We then elaborate on traditions in the sociology of race and racism …
The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning
This article focuses on processes of meaning making in White spaces as the glue that holds their social structures together. Understanding White spaces and how they operate necessitates theoretical development from a cultural perspective. The authors' research empirically engages with a wide range of White spaces-neighborhoods, subcultural scenes, craft breweries, online digital platforms, and academia, to name a few-and do so from a theoretical …
What Does 'Black' Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization
The “check all that apply” approach to race on the 2000 census has ignited a conceptual debate over the meaning and usefulness of racial categories. This debate is most intense over the category “black” because of the historically unique way that blackness has been defined. Though the lived reality of many people of color has changed over the past three decades, we question whether the construct black has mirrored these changes and if “black” rem…
From my own flesh and blood: An exploratory examination of discrimination from family for Black/White Multiracial people
This qualitative study examined instances of racial discrimination from family members among 36 Black/White Multiracial individuals. Participants responded to discrimination by distancing themselves from family members, resisting, and/or dismissing discrimination. Discriminatory experiences made race more salient for participants. Participants reported feeling hurt, alienated, and confused following discrimination. Implications of findings for so…
Toward a Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
A Special Section Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Destruction and Future Instruction
David Brunsma, J. Steven Picou; A Special Section Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Destruction and Future Instruction, Social Forces, Volume 8
The Culture of White Space, the Racialized Production of Meaning, and the Jamband Scene
This study critically examines the subculture of the jamband scene, particularly that of the band Phish, through the notion of 'white space.' We demonstrate the existence of colorblind racism and denial of white privilege in the white space of Phish subculture, which is also emblematic of the jamband subculture at large. This study utilizes content analysis drawing from social media comments that react to an article written by Headcount, a politi…
Oh, you're racist? I've got a cure for that
It has recently been discovered that the beta blocker drug, propranolol, can potentially reduce implicit racial bias among its users. By acting upon the affective conditions associated with implicit racial bias functioning at the non-conscious and pre-conscious levels, researchers have expressed excitement about the potential of propranolol and similar drugs to decrease implicit racial attitudes, and, thus, potentially decrease racism. This study…
Moving Beyond Cis-terhood: Determining Gender through Transgender Admittance Policies at U.S. Women’s Colleges
In 2013, controversy sparked student protests, campus debates, and national attention when Smith College denied admittance to Calliope Wong-a trans woman. Since then, eight women's colleges have revised their admissions policies to include different gender identities such as trans women and genderqueer people. Given the recency of such policies, we interrogate the ways the category 'woman' is determined through certain alignments of biology-, leg…
Sociology as Documenting Dystopia: Imagining a Sociology without Borders – a Critical Dialogue Sociologie en tant que documentation de dystopia: imaginant une sociologie sans frontières – un dialogue …
Sociology as Documenting Dystopia: Imagining a Sociology without Borders – a Critical Dialogue Sociologie en tant que documentation de dystopia: imaginant une sociologie sans frontières – un dialogue critique La sociologia que documenta la dystopia: imaginando una sociología sin fronteras – un dialogo crítico" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, race, and color in Latin America
In the inaugural issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2015) in laying out what he saw as the most necessary theoretical developments in the sociology of race and ethnici
The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice
Seeing the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity through Keywords and References
On Moving Forward
Humanitarian violence: The US deployment of diversity
In Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity, Neda Atansasoski, an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz, weaves a powerful and urgent compa
The New Color Complex: Appearances and Biracial Identity
Ethnic identity research has largely focused on the identity choices of White ethnics (Alba, 1990; Ignatiev, 1995; Waters, 1990). One key factor in these choices is bodily appearance. We extend this research to Black and White Biracial individuals and examine the role that physical appearance plays in their "choices" of racial identity. We test Rockquemore's (1999) taxonomy of Biracial identity using survey data from a sample of 177 Biracial resp…
What Does 'Black' Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization
The “check all that apply” approach to race on the 2000 census has ignited a conceptual debate over the meaning and usefulness of racial categories. This debate is most intense over the category “black” because of the historically unique way that blackness has been defined. Though the lived reality of many people of color has changed over the past three decades, we question whether the construct black has mirrored these changes and if “black” rem…
Socially Embedded Identities: Theories, Typologies, and Processes of Racial Identity among Black/White Biracials
Current research on racial identity construction among biracial people derives primarily from small convenience samples and assumes that individuals with one black and one white parent have only two options for racial identity: “black” or “biracial.” Rockquemore's (1999) taxonomy of racial identity options is used as a framework to synthesize existing research and to generate hypotheses that are explored using survey data from a sample of 177 bir…
The Many Costs of Racism
Chapter 1 The Many Costs of White Racism Chapter 2 The Psychological and Energy Costs of Contemporary Racism Chapter 3 The Physical Health Consequences of Racism Chapter 4 The Family and Community Costs of Racism Chapter 5 Fighting and Managing Everyday Racism: An Array of Strategies Chapter 6 Combating Racism: Active Behavioral Strategies Chapter 7 Racism and the Health Care System
Negotiating Racial Identity: Biracial Women and Interactional Validation
Counseling research on racial identity development among multiracial people has largely overlooked the complexity of these individuals' social experiences and how their multiple realities result in various racial identities. The assumptions that individuals with one Black and one White parent can only understand themselves as "Black" or "biracial" have been socially, culturally and politically constructed, providing a misguided foundation for mod…
After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology
Interracial Families and the Racial Identification of Mixed- Race Children: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to explore the structure of parental racial designation of mixed-race children. The variation in these parental designations of a variety of mixed-race children is described. Parental racial designations in the three most common majority-minority interracial couplings — White/Hispanic, Black/White and Asian/White —…
Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the "Color Blind" Era
The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and in the process changing the cultural fabric of the nation. Exploring this new reality, the authors of Mixed Messages examine what we know about multiracial identities—and the implications of those identities for fundamental issues of justice and equality.
The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice
Public categories, private identities: Exploring Regional Differences in the Biracial Experience
Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds
Sociology as Documenting Dystopia: Imagining a Sociology without Borders – a Critical Dialogue Sociologie en tant que documentation de dystopia: imaginant une sociologie sans frontières – un dialogue …
Sociology as Documenting Dystopia: Imagining a Sociology without Borders – a Critical Dialogue Sociologie en tant que documentation de dystopia: imaginant une sociologie sans frontières – un dialogue critique La sociologia que documenta la dystopia: imaginando una sociología sin fronteras – un dialogo crítico" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
A Special Section Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Destruction and Future Instruction
David Brunsma, J. Steven Picou; A Special Section Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Destruction and Future Instruction, Social Forces, Volume 8
Product Review: Faubourg Tremé
Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory
Empirical research on the growing multiracial population in the United States has focused largely on the documentation of racial identification, analysis of psychological adjustment, and understanding the broader political consequences of mixed‐race identification. Efforts toward theory construction on multiracial identity development, however, have been largely disconnected from empirical data, mired in disciplinary debates, and bound by histori…
On the Contributions of Cognitive Sociology to the Sociological Study of Race
In this article, we argue for cognitive sociology as a framework for studying the sociology of race. Cognitive sociology concerns itself with classification, identity construction, meaning and collective memory and is thus centrally concerned with generic issues that apply well to racial category construction and maintenance. We, first, outline the cognitive sociology framework. We then elaborate on traditions in the sociology of race and racism …
Film Review: Multiracial Identity
Teaching Race at Historically White Colleges and Universities: Identifying and Dismantling the Walls of Whiteness
In this article we outline the 'walls of whiteness' that make it difficult to teach the sociology of race and racism and make it difficult for students at historically white colleges and universities (HCWUs) to wrestle with these important issues. Most white students enter HWCUs surrounded by these walls - protecting them from attacks on white supremacy - that have multiple layers and therefore are even more difficult to penetrate; yet they must …
Liminality in the Multiracial experience: Towards a Concept of Identity Matrix
Although researchers have investigated Multiracials for their racial identity 'choices', many scholars continue to conceptualise racial identity as monolithic. This article both problematises and extends the notion of racial identity with an 'identity matrix'. This concept grounds the sociological processes of constructing and deploying a racial identity as strategic and agentic in interactional, political, cultural, physical (embodiment) and ins…
Oh, you're racist? I've got a cure for that
It has recently been discovered that the beta blocker drug, propranolol, can potentially reduce implicit racial bias among its users. By acting upon the affective conditions associated with implicit racial bias functioning at the non-conscious and pre-conscious levels, researchers have expressed excitement about the potential of propranolol and similar drugs to decrease implicit racial attitudes, and, thus, potentially decrease racism. This study…
Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights
Toward a Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
On Moving Forward
Humanitarian violence: The US deployment of diversity
In Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity, Neda Atansasoski, an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz, weaves a powerful and urgent compa
Racial Ideology in Electronic Dance Music Festival Promotional Videos
Black Studies are often disregarded as being pitifully parochial, brazenly polemical, and persistently pessimistic. Black academicians rooted in the Black Studies tradition often employ an epistemological framework that directly challenges colorblind ideologies of popular opinion. The mere inclusion of Black voices in mainstream media is not enough. Excluding racial experts from a Black Studies paradigm risks diminishing the complexity of racial …
Sociology (37 works) · Gender Studies (25 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Race (biology (12 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (12 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (11 works)