3156 - White Supremacy and Sociology

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Many sociologists study race, racism, and white supremacy in society, but what happens when we turn the lens on our own discipline to evaluate the ways that white supremacy impacts our scholarship and teaching, as well as the people who critically evaluate racist hierarchies? When we think about social justice and its relationship to sociology, the racialized processes involved in the production of social knowledge must be considered. This panel brings together scholars who have insights into the consequences of white supremacy for the discipline of sociology from multiple vantage points in order to interrogate the implications for sociological methods and teaching, as well as the lives of professional sociologists who navigate this scholarly terrain.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Panel

Session Organizer

• Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University

Presider

• Glenn Edward Bracey, Villanova University

Individual Presentations

• Sociology: An Organ of White Supremacy/Systemic Racism - Johnny E. Williams, Trinity College

• White Ignorance, Foreclosed Knowledge, and the Damning Case of Sociology - Jennifer C. Mueller, Skidmore College

• Revisiting White Sociology through the Publication Process - David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut; David L. Brunsma, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• The Citation Inflation of White Masculinity - Saida Grundy, Boston University