Author: Rutledge M. Dennis

John Stone is Professor of Sociology at Boston University, USA. He is the co-author of Racial Conflict in Global Society (2014) and editor of Race and Ethnicity: Comparative and Theoretical Approaches (2003), and the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (Wiley Blackwell: 2016) with Rutledge Dennis, Xiaoshuo Hou, Polly Rizova and Anthony D Smith. Rutledge Dennis is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, USA. He is the recipient of the ABS Joseph Himes Award and the ASA Du Bois-Johnson-Frazier Award. He is author of Finding the African Americans that Middletown Left Out (2012) and Marginality, Power and Social Structure: Issues in Race, Class, and Gender Analysis (2005) amongst others. Polly Rizova is Associate Professor of Management and Sociology at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University, USA. She is the author of The Secret of Success (2007) and co-author of Racial Conflict in Global Society (2013). Xiaoshuo Hou holds the Frances Young Tang 61″Chair in Chinese Studies and is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Skidmore College, USA. She is the author of Community Capitalism in China: The State, The Market, and Collectivism (2013).