What After Colorblind Racism? Theorizing Race and Ethnicity in the Modern World

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

Since the turn of the century sociological theorizing about colorblind racism has been at the forefront of the disciplinary effort to make sense of race and racism. As some have argued, more recent transformations in American political, civic, and social life have resulted in a return to more explicit, less filtered versions of racism. Taking these and related developments (e.g., the targeting of racialized immigrant groups, the questioning of race and ethnic content in primary, secondary, and higher education curricula) into account, this session will explore the prospects for rethinking race and racism in modern times. Submissions should address the questions of what new sociological concepts or terminology should be introduced to better apprehend the situation, and how might race and/or ethnicity be more effectively thought about or empirically investigated given the current climate in America and throughout the world?

Sub Unit

• Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section / What After Colorblind Racism? Theorizing Race and Ethnicity in the Modern World

Presider

• Dasom Lee, University of California-San Diego

Individual Presentations

• Beyond Raceblindness? The Emergence of Critical Race Talk in Official and Everyday Talk in Mexico - Christina Alicia Sue, University of Texas-San Antonio; Antonio Jimenez, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Defining Blackness in the Era of Affirmative Action in Brazil - Camila Santos Pereira, Northeastern University

• Interpreting Inequality: Examining Colorblind Racial Ideology in Black Women’s Prenatal Healthcare Narratives - Kayonne Christy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Is New Racism Old News? Colorblind Nationalism as a Theory of the Multiracial Right - Marcus A Brooks, Western Kentucky University

• Who Changed? Within-Person Shifts in Competing Racial Belief Systems, 2016–2020 - Karen Lee, DePaul University

Discussant

• Kim Ebert, North Carolina State University

Session Organizers

• Julio Ángel Alicea, Rutgers University-Camden

• Michelle Marie Christian, University of Tennessee-Knoxville