M W Hughey
Biographic Data
| ID | 40731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M W Hughey |
| GIVEN NAMES | M W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughey |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHEY M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6456-5663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 653 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 110 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Confronting Culture and Caste in the American Bahá’í Magazine World Order , 1935–1949
The Bahá’í Faith was founded in 1863 in Persia and first publicly mentioned in the United States at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions. Growing throughout the first decades of the twentieth century, the germinal American Bahá’í communities established different periodicals with varied foci. The first American Bahá’í periodical to fall under the full aegis of American Bahá’í administrative control was the magazine, World Order (1935-1949). B…
“I do consider some of them to be racially white but they shall not be White”: Terrorist Manifestos and the Construction of White Masculinity
I investigate the public manifestos of Anders Brevik (2011); Patrick Crusius (2019); Payton Gendron (2022); Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (1999, 2002); Elliot Rodger (2014); Dylann Roof (2015), and; Brendon Tarrant (2019). I analyze these documents not as reflections of static identities or ideologies but as discursive mechanism that helps reproduce an ideal White masculinity as an ongoing accomplishment via (1) of defining the problem and assignment…
That Part of Us That Is Mystical”: The Paradoxical Pieties of Huey P. Newton
Born the seventh son of a Louisiana preacher in 1942 and becoming the co-founder of the Black Panther Party in 1966, Huey P. Newton evidenced a complex, changing, and contradictory synthesis of faith and facts until his death in 1989. Focusing on 1960s’ U.S. Black Nationalism as materialist, Maoist, and Marxist in its appeals to objectivity, rationality, and positivist science, some scholars have presented Black Nationalist contempt for religion …
Buddhism Won’t Be an Asian Thing Anymore’: U.S. Periodical Representations of Buddhism and Whiteness
The Apostle of the Monkey Ancestral Business”: Darwinism and Black Newspapers as Counterpublics, 1859–1929
After Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871), there was far from consensus in the US over what Darwinism meant in relation to religion, science, human origins, and especially “race.” Recent scholarship has well-elucidated mainstream scientific, media, and public discourse on Darwinism’s application to the “race” concept. However, we know comparatively little about how African Americans in general, and the e…
Reproductive Care Options in the US Criminal Justice System
Although healthcare is not a protected right under the U.S. Constitution, the denial of healthcare to incarcerated people has been considered “cruel and unusual punishment” and is a violation of the Eighth Amendment. As per the 1976 Supreme Court decision in Estelle v. Gamble , “deliberate indifference” to the medical needs of prisoners is prohibited; “adequate medical care” must be afforded. However, the numerous interpretations of “deliberate” …
Invisible Hand-in-Glove? The Uneasy Intersections of Friedrich Hayek's Neoliberalism and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Bahá'í Economics
The theological rendering of economics in the Bahá'í Faith-particularly from 'Abdu'l-Bahá-advocated progressive taxation, a strong welfare state, the abolition of trusts, and the redistribution of wealth. These orientations directly diverge from "neoliberal" economic theory, especially as articulated by Frederick Hayek: concerns that social justice exacerbates poverty and claims that progressive taxation is "discrimination." Despite these seeming…
“… Angels which Thou hast created of snow and of fire”: Bahá’í Angelology and God’s Dialogic Relationship to Humanity
Angelology is in a renaissance. Yet the angels of new religious movements in general, and the Bahá’í Faith in particular, remain less examined. In response, I offer a typology of Bahá’í angels as avatars of the Holy Spirit, distinct celestial beings, spiritually evolved people, manifestations of God, and carriers and personifications of divine virtue. These five types respectively function to emphasize the authority of divinity, accentuate the my…
The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
The Sociological Spirituality of W. E. B. Du Bois's Prayers for Dark People
Scholarship on W. E. B. Du Bois's understanding of religion is in the midst of a renaissance. Yet, few engage Du Bois's Prayers for Dark People , written over 1909–10 at Atlanta University. As a remedy, I first provide historical context on the production and reception of Prayers . I then delve into the content of Prayers , identifying the tenets of a Du Boisian “sociological spirituality” brought to bear on the study and navigation of “race” and…
Du Boisian sociology and intersectionality
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is arguably best known for The Souls of Black Folk in which he penned: “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” While Du Bois theorized how “race” functioned as the principle problem of social life, did Du Bois further complicate the color line? If so, how did Du Bois theorize the multiple variables of social advantage and disadvantage - we understand as “intersectionality”? In this…
Above the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Otherworldly Perspective and a New Racial Order
Though W. E. B. Du Bois was critical of traditional religion, he understood the power of religious orientations to the world, including religious attitudes of faith and hope. Although many scholars have commented on Du Bois’s secular faith, few have understood the secular, scientific sources that he used to develop it. In this article, we examine how Du Bois built a post-Christian otherworldly perspective in part by drawing from popular science w…
Black people don't love nature: White Environmentalist Imaginations of Cause, Calling, and Capacity
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois
The Social Antagonism between Whiteness and Antiracism: How and Why White Antiracists lose their Whiteness”
This article depicts two cases of “lost Whiteness” and unintentional racial “passing.” Based on years of ethnographic research, we present the story of two White people who – largely because of their truly-determined commitment to racial justice activism – were thought by others as being or becoming Persons of Color. These activists were not trying to pass. Rather, they are manifestations of a “reverse racial pass,” defined as “any instance in wh…
Debating Du Bois’s Darkwater: From hymn of hate to pathos and power
The initial 1920 publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil sold over 15,000 copies. Its initial 1969 reissue, and subsequent reprints, have since garnered even more sales and thousands of citations. Darkwater is now considered a classic. The centenary of the publication (1920–2020) provides an opportune moment to reflect on the book’s significance and disparate interpretations. In this article, I first examine the a…
Prometheus as Racial Allegory: The Sociological Poetics of W. E. B. Du Bois
The Coming Authoritarianism
This article reviews predictions made in an earlier piece entitled “Gender and Race in American Elections: From the Pathos of Prediction to the Power of Possibility” (Hughey 2020)
The Who and Why of QAnon’s Rapid Rise
Keywords community, con artistry, cult, ideology, propaganda, QAnon, racism, social proof, social psychology
How Blackness Matters in White Lives
Since the birth of 'Black Lives Matter' in 2013 there has emerged a broad spectrum of public discourse about, and scholarship examining, the movement. Within this diverse conversation, some have concentrated on the supposed growth of White support for racial equality in general and Black Lives Matter in specific. Yet, within this scholarly corpus, there is no examination of White engagement with Black Lives Matter from a symbolic interactionist l…
Preface: Foresight in 2020: Race and Gender in the Upcoming Election
This essay introduces contributions to a special issue of Sociological Forum titled “Foresight in 2020: Race and Gender in the Upcoming Election.” All articles in the issue can be accessed at the journal’s website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15737861 . They will first appear under the “Early View” tab, and later in volume 35, supplement I.
Gender and Race in American Elections: From the Pathos of Prediction to the Power of Possibility 1
I provide first an overview of the predictions of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the public penance paid by political oracles in the wake of the results. Next, I reflect on the social science emphasis on forecasting “who” will win and by “how much.” Third, I argue that our collective emphasis on prediction and realpolitik may obscure, if not stop, our ability to both understand how and why outcomes occur (by illuminating causal mechanism…
The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Extending Studies of Racialized Media beyond Racial Representations
The recent 2016 presidential campaign season and subsequent presidency has created a context in which the general public is looking deeper into the “behind the scenes” influences on the media. Of particular interest has been “fake news” and the biases of various news media outlets. These “behind the scenes” actions occur at production (the encoded ideological meanings and narratives, the material structures, the people involved, and global politi…
"The Souls of White Folk" (1920-2020): A century of Peril and prophecy
Published in 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois's Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil contains a provocative chapter entitled "The Souls of White Folk." The chapter is a tour de force of the relationship of whiteness to the "darker world." While explicitly addressing colonial imperialism, the first world war, and white supremacy, a close reading of the chapter reveals Du Bois's implicit dissection of the meanings and makings of "whiteness." Now a century …
The (dis)similarities of white racial identities: The Conceptual Framework of 'Hegemonic Whiteness
This article examines the processes of white racial identity formation in the United States via an examination of a white nationalist organization and a white antiracist organization. Findings indicate that the construction of white racial identity in both groups is based on the reproduction of various racist and essentialist ideologies. The realization that there is a shared 'groupness' to outwardly different white identities has the potential t…
White backlash in the 'post-racial' United States
From the 'Reagan Revolution' to the election of Obama in the USA; from the populism of Enoch Powell and Thatcher to the rise of the British National Party in the UK; and from the backlash against multiculturalism in both Australia and Canada, westernized nations with colonial histories and unequal relations between a powerful white class and a subjugated non-white class now witness a strikingly adamant discourse and movement: growing numbers of w…
Color Capital, White Debt, and the Paradox of Strong White Racial Identities
This article examines how meaning is made of White racial identity by comparing two White racial projects assumed antithetical-White nationalists and White antiracists. While clear differences abound, they make meaning of Whiteness and racial "others" in surprisingly similar ways. Racial identity formation is structured by understandings of Whiteness as dull, empty, lacking, and incomplete ("White debt") coupled with a search to alleviate those f…
Racist comments at online news sites: A methodological dilemma for discourse analysis
In 2004, awash with the hope for a public sphere reinvigorated by the popular internet, the online arms of many U.S. newspapers opened their websites for comments. Now, nine years into this experiment, many newspapers have abandoned the practice of allowing comments. Online news sites have adopted a variety of strategies to deal with offensive comments, including turning “comments off,” not archiving comments, and adopting aggressive comment mode…
Paving the Way for Future Race Research: Exploring the Racial Mechanisms Within a Color-Blind, Racialized Social System
In a day when many are fatigued with discourse on racism, discrimination, and inequality but others face a socially and politically trenchant White backlash against the gains of the civil rights movement, race scholars are faced with the complex scenario in which they must simultaneously articulate (1) what, when, and where racism operates to exercise both deleterious and advantageous effects on differently racialized actors and (2) exactly why a…
The Five I's of Five-O: Racial Ideologies, Institutions, Interests, Identities, and Interactions of Police Violence
The relationship between police violence and race is one fraught with both specific historical and contemporary tensions (i.e., white police profiling, beating, and murder of people of color) and with ambiguity (e.g., what is meant by 'race' and how do we operationalize and measure 'violence' at the hands of law enforcement?). Defining the concept of 'race' as a multidimensional process of oppression and justification for social inequality can sh…
Cinethetic Racism: White Redemption and Black Stereotypes in 'Magical Negro' Films
Recent research on African American media representations describes a trend of progressive, antiracist film production. Specifically, "magical negro" films (cinema highlighting lower-class, uneducated, and magical black characters who transform disheveled, uncultured, or broken white characters into competent people) have garnered both popular and critical acclaim. I build upon such evidence as a cause for both celebration and alarm. I first exam…
Backstage Discourse and the Reproduction of White Masculinities
This article documents the shared patterns of private white male discourse. Drawing from comparative ethnographic research in a white nationalist and a white antiracist organization, I analyze how white men engage in private discourse to reproduce coherent and valorized understandings of white masculinity. These private speech acts reinforce prevailing narratives about race and gender, reproduce understandings of segregation and paternalism as na…
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Out of bounds? Racial discourse on college basketball message boards
While the frequency of overt racism has decreased in most public spaces, being replaced by more subtly racialized narratives, the Internet appears to be an exception where explicit racism continues to proliferate. Online message boards dedicated to US collegiate basketball are sites where groups dominated by white male users discuss the lives and performances of young, primarily black, student-athletes. Against this backdrop, the current study in…
A Level Playing Field? Media Constructions of Athletics, Genetics, and Race
The link between black athleticism and biological determinism has been wrought with debate. With the domination of black athletics over white challengers-such as boxer Jack Johnson or sprinter Jessie Owens-some began to assert that blacks possessed a biological predisposition toward athletic excellence and that Darwinian winnowing during chattel slavery's harsh conditions magnified African American and West Indian athletic prowess. Despite biolog…
Virtual (Br)others and (Re)sisters: Authentic Black Fraternity and Sorority Identity on the Internet
Recently, the Internet has become the focus of immense speculation regarding the social construction of identity and cultural "authenticity." However, examinations of virtual communities such as blogs, multiuser domains, and chat rooms have largely ignored nonwhite, especially African American, virtual communities (VCs). Through participant observation, content analysis, and personal interviews, this article analyzes a VC dedicated to members of …
Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism: The Ideological Double Helix of Racial Inequality
The souls of white folk beyond formation and structure: Bound to Identity
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) …
The White Savior Film and Reviewers' Reception
This article documents the collective interpretations of film reviewers, a position typically associated with individual aesthetic judgment rather than socially shared scripts of explanation. Drawing on the reviews of a feature film with implicit racial content, produced in the context of a supposedly “color-blind” era, this article documents how reviewers constitute a racialized interpretive community. Reviewers rely on specific cultural framewo…
A Paradox of Participation: Nonwhites in White Sororities and Fraternities
Although law prohibits race-based exclusion in college sororities and fraternities in the United States, racial segregation prevails. As a result, nonwhite membership in white Greek-letter organizations (WGLOs) is often hailed as a transformative step toward equality and unity. The bulk of work on such cross-racial membership centers on comparative-historical and survey data and treats integrated membership as the successful end, rather than a pr…
Brotherhood or brothers in the ‘hood’? Debunking the ‘educated gang’ thesis as black fraternity and sorority slander
In this article the author explores the controversial thesis that African American Collegiate Fraternities and Sororities, also known as Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs), are 'educated gangs'. First, the author examines this polemic as a 'truth claim' and compares BGLOs and gangs through: (1) hazing; (2) rape and substance abuse; (3) social constructions of black masculinity and femininity; (4) social structure; and (5) cultural aesthetic…
"The Souls of White Folk" (1920-2020): A century of Peril and prophecy
Published in 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois's Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil contains a provocative chapter entitled "The Souls of White Folk." The chapter is a tour de force of the relationship of whiteness to the "darker world." While explicitly addressing colonial imperialism, the first world war, and white supremacy, a close reading of the chapter reveals Du Bois's implicit dissection of the meanings and makings of "whiteness." Now a century …
Crossing the Sands, Crossing the Color Line: Non-Black Members of Black Greek Letter Organizations
The War on Drugs, Racial Meanings, and Structural Racism: A Holistic and Reproductive Approach
The War on Drugs in the United States has been part of a system of social control targeting low-income black and Latinx communities. While this statement has been contested, its validity is clear from an encompassing framework that considers the history of racially motivated laws and practices and moral panics among whites who have blamed drug-related social problems and crime on marginalized racial groups. We develop a holistic and reproductive …
Making Everyday Microaggressions: An Exploratory Experimental Vignette Study on the Presence and Power of Racial Microaggressions
The term 'microaggression' has experienced a lively existence in the field of psychology since its introduction in 1970s. Sociology has recently come to study microaggressions, yet serious gaps remain in the study of microaggressions. In particular, sociological analysis has not taken into account how exposure to microaggressive interactions may affect racial attitudes, how variations in microaggressive interactions have different effects, and wh…
We've Been Framed! A Focus on Identity and Interaction for a Better Vision of Racialized Social Movements
Social movement scholarship has historically focused on both relative deprivation and resource mobilization theories. In recent years, the field has shifted attention to concentrate on "framing." Despite this move, less attention has been paid to both racialized scripts of microlevel interaction and the processes of identity formation that constitute the nuance of everyday lived experiences of collective action. Drawing from comparative ethnograp…
Bad Hombres? The Implicit and Explicit Racialization of Immigration
Who's invited to the (political) party: Race and party politics in the USA
From the political behemoths of the Democratic and Republican Parties, to the Civil Rights Era racially progressive Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and reactionary American Independent Party, to the contemporary third party Green and Libertarian Parties, party politics in the USA has a long and storied relationship to the reproduction and contestation of racial domination. Recent works illuminate the strategic use of racial discourse by majo…
The struggle for black freedom in Miami: Civil rights and America's tourist paradise, 1896-1968
Chanelle N. Rose's The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami provides a well-written and engaging history of several important but lesser studied social movement organizations. The text centres on or
Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America
Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger. New York : HarperCollins , 2004 . Written by journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger, Poplorica (an awkwardly nominal title that combines the words popular, lore, and America) aims toward an explanation of US popular culture history with a small “h.” This is history that is “about convenience, invention, innovation—the unnoticed moments that fundamentally alter the way we function” (xiv). With this p…
Huey: Spirit of the Pantherby David Hilliard (with Keith Zimmerman and Kent Zimmerman)
In the 1970s posters of the Black Panther Party's (hereinafter the BPP) co-founder, Dr. Huey P. Newton (1942–1989), were plastered on walls of college dormitory rooms across the country. It was an
Racism with Antiracists: Color-Conscious Racism and the Unintentional Persistence of Inequality
The latest turn in the sociological study of white racism argues that the paradigm of color-blind racism is the predominant form by which many whites unintentionally reproduce racist ideology due to ignorance, or dismissal, of structural racism. As a remedy, many scholars advocate that whites should turn to explicitly antiracist activism informed by structural analysis. Employing ethnographic data in a majority white antiracist organization as a …
Crossing the Sands, Crossing the Color Line: Non-Black Members of Black Greek Letter Organizations
Brotherhood or brothers in the ‘hood’? Debunking the ‘educated gang’ thesis as black fraternity and sorority slander
In this article the author explores the controversial thesis that African American Collegiate Fraternities and Sororities, also known as Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs), are 'educated gangs'. First, the author examines this polemic as a 'truth claim' and compares BGLOs and gangs through: (1) hazing; (2) rape and substance abuse; (3) social constructions of black masculinity and femininity; (4) social structure; and (5) cultural aesthetic…
Virtual (Br)others and (Re)sisters: Authentic Black Fraternity and Sorority Identity on the Internet
Recently, the Internet has become the focus of immense speculation regarding the social construction of identity and cultural "authenticity." However, examinations of virtual communities such as blogs, multiuser domains, and chat rooms have largely ignored nonwhite, especially African American, virtual communities (VCs). Through participant observation, content analysis, and personal interviews, this article analyzes a VC dedicated to members of …
The Janus‐Face of Whiteness: Toward a Cultural Sociology of White Nationalism and White Antiracism
While the sociological study of white identity has traversed many stages, its most recent turn emphasizes the contextual heterogeneity of whiteness. Because of this increased attention to context and locality, the study of whiteness has never been more amenable to cultural analysis than it is today. Hence, an emphasis on different white racial formations that span a political spectrum from conservative to liberal and racist to antiracist is now d…
Laughing Matters: Economies of Hyper-Irony and Manic-Satire in South Park & Family Guy
The so called “Arab,” “Middle Eastern,” and “South Asian” (hereinafter “AMESA”) worlds are oft-described as barbaric, untrustworthy, anti-democratic, violent, and filled with religious militants. Many claim that animated cartoons propagate this bigoted point of view, and that engagement with progressive and antiracist systems of representation are rarely combined in mainstream media formats. Using episodes from the animated series Family Guy and …
Cinethetic Racism: White Redemption and Black Stereotypes in 'Magical Negro' Films
Recent research on African American media representations describes a trend of progressive, antiracist film production. Specifically, "magical negro" films (cinema highlighting lower-class, uneducated, and magical black characters who transform disheveled, uncultured, or broken white characters into competent people) have garnered both popular and critical acclaim. I build upon such evidence as a cause for both celebration and alarm. I first exam…
Black Aesthetics and Panther Rhetoric: A Critical Decoding of Black Masculinity in The Black Panther, 1967-80
This article provides a critical decoding of black masculine representations in the Black Panther Party newspaper - The Black Panther. Through a random sample of 100 issues inclusive of 1316 articles from 1967 to 1980, the analysis focuses on both the aesthetic and rhetorical devices that construct black masculinity. These depictions do not turn on agendas to install 'positive' images in order to contest 'negative' ones, but are concerned with a …
Teaching and Learning Guide for: A Glimpse into the Sociology of White Antiracism and White Nationalism
This guide accompanies the following article: Matthew W. Hughey, ‘The Janus Face of Whiteness: Toward a Cultural Sociology of White Nationalism and White Antiracism’, Sociology Compass 3/6 (2009): 920–936, 10.1111/j.1751‐9020.2009.00244.x Author’s introduction Over the past 20 years, the study of white racial identity has received in‐depth, interdisciplinary attention. Under sociological scrutiny, the study of whiteness has traversed quite a few …
The White Savior Film and Reviewers' Reception
This article documents the collective interpretations of film reviewers, a position typically associated with individual aesthetic judgment rather than socially shared scripts of explanation. Drawing on the reviews of a feature film with implicit racial content, produced in the context of a supposedly “color-blind” era, this article documents how reviewers constitute a racialized interpretive community. Reviewers rely on specific cultural framewo…
A Paradox of Participation: Nonwhites in White Sororities and Fraternities
Although law prohibits race-based exclusion in college sororities and fraternities in the United States, racial segregation prevails. As a result, nonwhite membership in white Greek-letter organizations (WGLOs) is often hailed as a transformative step toward equality and unity. The bulk of work on such cross-racial membership centers on comparative-historical and survey data and treats integrated membership as the successful end, rather than a pr…
The (dis)similarities of white racial identities: The Conceptual Framework of 'Hegemonic Whiteness
This article examines the processes of white racial identity formation in the United States via an examination of a white nationalist organization and a white antiracist organization. Findings indicate that the construction of white racial identity in both groups is based on the reproduction of various racist and essentialist ideologies. The realization that there is a shared 'groupness' to outwardly different white identities has the potential t…
Re-membering Black Greeks: Racial Memory and Identity in Stomp the Yard
Critical sociological analysis suggests that the film Stomp the Yard immerses its audience in a myopic legend of African American fraternities and sororities. Combining historical photos of Civil Rights leaders, traditions of 'stepping', tales of meritocratic social uplift, and romanticized aspects of historically black college or university (HBCU) culture, Stomp the Yard reveals a hyper-individualistic, conservative, and politically blunted form…
Backstage Discourse and the Reproduction of White Masculinities
This article documents the shared patterns of private white male discourse. Drawing from comparative ethnographic research in a white nationalist and a white antiracist organization, I analyze how white men engage in private discourse to reproduce coherent and valorized understandings of white masculinity. These private speech acts reinforce prevailing narratives about race and gender, reproduce understandings of segregation and paternalism as na…
White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition--us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic groups, with differing worldviews, values, and ideolo…
Racializing Redemption, Reproducing Racism: The Odyssey of Magical Negroes and White Saviors
Recent research on the intersection of race and media describes a trend of progressive, even antiracist, narratives that showcase close inter‐racial friendships and camaraderie on the silver screen. Films in which one character saves or helps another from some unholy or disastrous plight are common in films like The Green Mile (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Amistad (1997) and The Blind Side (2009). While these films present a stark change from th…
Taking culture (and race) beyond dichotomies: A reply to Gans
Gans' (Citation2012; Against culture versus structure. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 19 (2), 125–134) indictment of cultural sociology (CS) and his anointment of structural sociology would have us believe the two are incommensurate paradigms. I do not agree. I deconstruct this binary with theory and empiricism from the intersection of CS and the sociology of race and ethnicity (SRE). First, I redefine the project of CS, contra …
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Myth of Post-Racial America: Searching for Equality in the Age of Materialism
Black Guys and White Guise: The Discursive Construction of White Masculinity
This article explores how discursive repertories about black masculinity inform the construction of white masculinity in two settings assumed diametrically opposed: white nationalists and white antiracists. Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, year-long ethnographic field notes, and content analysis from two nationwide white nationalist and white antiracist organizations, the author finds three common discursive frames to saturate bo…
The Price of Progressive Politics: The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism
Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift From Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America
Color Capital, White Debt, and the Paradox of Strong White Racial Identities
This article examines how meaning is made of White racial identity by comparing two White racial projects assumed antithetical-White nationalists and White antiracists. While clear differences abound, they make meaning of Whiteness and racial "others" in surprisingly similar ways. Racial identity formation is structured by understandings of Whiteness as dull, empty, lacking, and incomplete ("White debt") coupled with a search to alleviate those f…
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