Sandra L. Barnes & Zandria F. Robinson 
Repositioning Race [EPUB ebook] 
Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age

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Repositioning Race, leading African American sociologists assess the current state of race theory, racial discrimination, and research on race in order to chart a path toward a more engaged public scholarship. They contemplate not only the paradoxes of Black freedom but also the paradoxes of equality and progress for the progeny of the civil rights generation in the wake of the election of the first African American US president. Despite the proliferation of ideas about a postracial society, the volume highlights the ways that racial discrimination persists in both the United States and the African Diaspora in the Global South, allowing for unprecedented African American progress in the midst of continuing African American marginalization.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age




Part I. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership



1. Race Matters in “Post-Racial”
OBAMERICA and How to Climb Out of the Rabbit Hole


Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers



2. Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented Tenth


Earl Wright II



3. Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as a Critical Race Theorist


Robert L. Reece




Part II. Daily Experiences and Implications of a Post-Racial Obama Age



4. Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to Nightmare


Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton



5. Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic Racism


Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin




Part III. Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts


6. Contextualizing ‘Race’ in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism, and Anti-Haitianism


Antonio D. Tillis



7. “U.S. Blacks are beautiful but Brazilian Blacks are not racist”: Brazilian Return Migrants’ Perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian Blacks


Tiffany D. Joseph

8. Africa Speaks: The “Place” of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum Exhibits


Derrick R. Brooms


Epilogue: Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of Inquiry



List of Contributors

Index

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Sandra L. Barnes is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of many books, including
The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana, also published by SUNY Press, and
Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology.
Zandria F. Robinson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis.
Earl Wright II is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.