2213 - Former ASA Presidents Reflect on Race and Emotion

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Former ASA presidents reflect on the 2018 presidential theme, asking such questions as how understanding the sociology of emotion enriches our understanding of race. Who "feels" race and how? How is an understanding of racialized emotion relate to social structural explanations of racial inequality? Has ignoring emotion blunted sociologists' ability to understand racial backlash? these and other questions will be the focus of this session.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Panels

Session Organizer

• Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware

Presider

• Margaret L. Andersen, University of Delaware

Panelists

• Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland-College Park

• Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University

• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California-Berkeley