2221 - Racial Justice

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

In the 1903 W.E.B. DuBois noted that the problem of the 20th Century was the color-line, but well into the 21st Century contemporary sociologists are still grappling with the consequences of deeply structured racial inequality in the United States. Much research has been examining the dynamics of this inequality and the mechanisms that continue to reproduce white domination as a defining characteristic of U.S. social structure. The 114th Annual Meeting of the ASA is focused on engaging social justice, and it is clear that racial justice must be centered in this discussion. This panel brings together prominent scholars who have studied and considered the mechanisms and consequences of systemic racism in the United States and pushes the work to consider how sociologists can approach a project of systemic racial justice.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Session Organizer

• Wendy Leo Moore, Texas A&M University

Presider

• Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, Utah State University

Individual Presentations

• Racial Justice and the Matter of Citizenship - Rogelio Saenz, University of Texas-San Antonio

• Chicago on the Take: Ticketing and Towing in the City of Collision - Kasey Henricks, University of Tennessee

• Critical Race Theory and the Wisdom of a Black Political Party - Glenn Edward Bracey, Villanova University

Discussant

• Kristen Lavelle, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater