race relations

Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities

Race-ing Fargo: Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities

This project was funded in part by a CSWS grant.
"Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender, religion, and sociality play in everyday interactions between refugees from South Sudan and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the dominant white Euro-American population of the city."
Author
Jennifer Erickson
Publication
2020
Cover of "What Comes Naturally"

What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

"What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied not just in the South but throughout most of the country, in the West, the North, and the Midwest."
Author
Peggy Pascoe
Publication
2009
Cover of "Racial Fomation in the 21st Century"

Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century

Racial Formation in the 21st Century…brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The contributors explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body."
Author
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Oneka LaBennett
Laura Pulido
Publication
2012
Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California

"This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and anti-discrimination gains?"
Author
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Publication
2010
White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide Book Cover

White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide

“Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis. This urgent and immediate analysis of the killings of unarmed black men by police officers shows how racial profiling matches statistics of the prison population with disregard for the constitutional rights of the many innocent people of all races."
Author
Naomi Zack Rowman
Publication
2015
Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice Book Cover

Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice

"Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices. While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls’s 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal, but injustice as a correctable ill. Zack's theory of applicative justice offers a revolutionary reorientation of society's pursuit of justice, seeking to undo injustice in a practical and fully achievable way."
Author
Naomi Zack
Publication
2016
Marriage Vows and Racial Choices Book Cover

Marriage Vows and Racial Choices

"Choosing whom to marry involves more than emotion, as racial politics, cultural mores, and local demographics all shape romantic choices. In Marriage Vows and Racial Choices, sociologist Jessica Vasquez-Tokos explores the decisions of Latinos who marry either within or outside of their racial and ethnic groups. Drawing from in-depth interviews with nearly fifty couples, she examines their marital choices and how these unions influence their identities as Americans...Vasquez-Tokos also investigates how racial and cultural identities are maintained or altered for the respondents’ children."
Author
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Publication
2017
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities Book Cover

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

"Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture."
Author
Tara Fickle
Publication
2019