4314 - Challenging Racial Hierarchies in a Diverse Society

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Racial inequality in America is a complex, interlocking system of social categories. Activists have long sought to challenge and transform this system through protest. This panel draws together some of sociology’s leading scholars of protest, race, and ethnicity to lead a discussion about race-based mobilization in the American context. This panel starts from the assumption that racial and ethnic groups in America face very different circumstances and that struggles against inequality reflect distinct historical trajectories. The panelists have investigated African-American civil rights protest, Asian-American panethnicity, and immigrant and Latino mobilization. Their research has explored “classic protest” such as Civil Rights era boycott movements, lesser known protest such Black Power activism in the professions, and contemporary youth-led protest in California. Not only will this panel address the diversity of race-based activism in the United States, it will approach the topic from multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives. This panel presents a unique opportunity to reflect on an exciting nexus in sociological research.

Description

Racial inequality in America is a complex, interlocking system of social categories. Activists have long sought to challenge and transform this system through protest. This panel draws together some of sociology’s leading scholars of protest, race, and ethnicity to lead a discussion about race-based mobilization in the American context. This panel starts from the assumption that racial and ethnic groups in America face very different circumstances and that struggles against inequality reflect distinct historical trajectories. The panelists have investigated African-American civil rights protest, Asian-American panethnicity, and immigrant and Latino mobilization. Their research has explored “classic protest” such as Civil Rights era boycott movements, lesser known protest such Black Power activism in the professions, and contemporary youth-led protest in California. Not only will this panel address the diversity of race-based activism in the United States, it will approach the topic from multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives. This panel presents a unique opportunity to reflect on an exciting nexus in sociological research.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Fabio Rojas, Indiana University

Presider

• Fabio Rojas, Indiana University

Panelists

• Aldon D. Morris, Northwestern University

• Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University

• Joyce M. Bell, University of Minnesota

• Veronica Terriquez, University of California-Santa Cruz