1st Edition
Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy
Introduction: Mechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Amanda E. Lewis
1. Rethinking racism again: theorizing the racial structure “for real”
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
2. Mechanisms, smoke and fun-house mirrors: when naming racism is not enough
Louise Seamster
3. The power of affective capital: rethinking emotions in racial domination
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Angelica Loblack
4. Whiteness and organizations: institutions, legitimacy, and hegemony
Marni Fritz and Amanda Lewis
5. Through the looking glass: reexamining family structure’s contribution to racial inequality in life chances
Christina J. Cross
6. Australian racial capitalism, Indigenous exploitation and the racial regime of recognition and reconciliation
Debbie Bargallie, Alana Lentin and Kieron Turner
7. Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: sundown towns and the durability of racialized public space
David Rigby, Michael H. Esposito, Tyson H. Brown, Hedwig Lee and Sierra Clark
8. Black like this, not like that: how Afro-Latines navigate Black and Latine ethnoracial hierarchies in the U.S.
Pamela Zabala Ortiz
Biography
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University. His classical book, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (6th edition), has influenced scholars in education, religious studies, political science, rhetoric, psychology, political science, legal studies, and sociology.
Amanda E. Lewis is the Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and Distinguished Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She researches how race shapes educational opportunities and how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life.
Pamela Zabala Ortiz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Her research focuses on race making; identity and belonging; and transnational constructions of race, specifically Blackness and latinidad. Her work can be found in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Identities.
