The University of Arizona Department of Sociology

Comprehensive Examination Reading List: Race

(Revised 2016)

OVERVIEWS, HISTORICAL, THEORY and METHODS

Alba, Richard D. 1990. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New Haven:
Yale University Press. Ch. 1, 5-8.
Back, Les, and John Solomos, eds. 2009. Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader. Routledge.
(Selections)
Blackburn, Robin. 2011. Enslavement and Industrialisation. [Slavery$$$Industry.doc] or
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/industrialisation_article_01.shtml --
Boxberger Daniel L. In and out of the Labor Force: The Lummi Indians and the Development of
the Commercial Salmon Fishery of North Puget Sound, 1880-1900 Ethnohistory, Vol. 35,
No. 2 (Spring, 1988), pp. 161-190.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/482701.pdf?_=1461621115252
Bobo, Lawrence and Vincent Hutchings. 1996. Perceptions of Racial Competition in a
Multiracial Setting. American Sociological Review 61:951-972.
Bonacich, Edna. 1972. "A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market." American
Sociological Review 37:547-559.
Cornell, Stephen. 2015. Processes of Native Nationhood: The Indigenous Politics of Self-
Government. International Indigenous Policy Journal 6, no. 4 (September):1-27.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 1997. Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation.
American Sociological Review 62:465-80.
Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic. 2001. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. New York:
New York University Press.

Hall, Thomas D Incorporation in the World-System: Toward a Critique American Sociological

Review, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Jun., 1986), pp. 390-402

Hartmann, Douglas, and Joseph Gerteis. 2005. Dealing with Diversity: Mapping
Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms. Sociological Theory 23, no. 2 (June): 218-40.

Horsman, Reginald. 1981. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-
Saxonism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lipsitz, George. 1995. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy
and the White Problem in American Studies. American Quarterly 47, no. 3
(September): 369-87.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States: From the
1960s to the 1990s. 2nd Ed. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Parts 1 and 2.

Rothenberg, Paula S. 2004. White Privilege. 3rd Ed. New York: Worth.

Skrentny, John D. 2002. The Minority Rights Revolution (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University
Press,
Steinberg, Stephen. Race Relations: A Critique. Stanford University Press, 2007.

Taylor, Charles. 1994. The Politics of Recognition. In Multiculturalism, ed. Amy Gutmann.
Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 25-73.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2001. The Myrdal Legacy: Racism and Underdevelopment
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Dilemmas. In Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of 19 Century Paradigms.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press: Ch. 6, Intro and Part I: 80-92.

Weber, Max. (1978). Ethnic Groups in Economy and Society, translated by Guenther Roth and
Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 385-398

Winant, Howard. 2000. Race and Race Theory. Annual Review of Sociology 26:169-85.
Winant, Howard. 2001. The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy since World War II.
New
York: Basic Books. Ch. 2, 11.

RACISM/PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Bobo, Lawrence D., and Mia Tuan. 2006. Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion,
and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ch. 1-2,
4-6.
Bonilla Silva, Eduardo. 2013. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence
of Racial Inequality in the United States. 4th edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield.

Fernandez, Roberto M and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo. 2006. Networks, Race, and Hiring.
American Sociological Review 71 (1): 42-71.
Hunt, Darnell. 1997. Raced Ways of Seeing, Screening the Los Angeles Riots: Race, Seeing,
and Resistance. Cambridge University Press. Ch. 2, 7.

Lipsitz, George. 2011. How Racism Takes Place. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the
Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ch. 1, 2.
Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. 2006. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New
Perspective on Racial Inequality. 2nd Ed. NY: Routledge. Introduction, Ch. 1, 2, 6, 7.
Pager, Devah and Lincoln Quillian. 2005. What Employers Say Versus What They Do
American Sociological Review 70:355-80.

Williams, Robert A., Jr. 2005. Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and
the Legal History of Racism in America. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press.

INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER

Arnett Ferguson, Ann. 2001. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ch. 1-3.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
Politics of Empowerment. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge. Ch. 1, 2
Cox, Oliver C. 1948. Caste, Class and Race. New York: Monthly Review Press. Ch. 15, 23, 25.
Waldinger, Roger. 1996. The New Urban Reality, from Still the Promised City. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. [In Yetman reader]
Waters, Mary C. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Dreams and American Realities.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Ch. 3-9.
Wilson, William Julius. 1997. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New
York: Vintage Books. Introduction, Ch. 1-3, 5.
Soss, Joe, Richard C. Fording, and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal
Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Yanagisako, Sylvia. 1995. Transforming Orientalism: Gender, Nationality, and Class in Asian
American Studies. In Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis, ed.
Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney. New York: Routledge. Pp. 275-97.

IMMIGRATION
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. 1997. Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of
Immigration. International Migration Review 31: 826-874.
Barrett, James R. and David Roediger. 1997. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the
New Immigrant Working Class. Journal of Ethnic History 16: 3. [In Yetman reader]
Kasinitz, Philip. 2004. Race, Assimilation, and Second Generations, Past and Present. In Not
Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race,
and Ethnicity in the United States. Edited by Nancy Foner and George Fredrickson. New
York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 278-98.
Lee, Jennifer and Frank D. Bean. 2004. "America's Changing Color Lines: Immigration,
Race/Ethnicity, and Multiracial Identification." Annual Review of Sociology 30.
Lieberson, Stanley. 1994. "A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880." In
Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by
David B. Grusky. Boulder: Westview Press. Pp. 543-554.
Massey, Douglas S. 2003. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of
Economic Integration. New York: Russell Sage.
Portes, Alejandro, and Ruben G. Rumbaut. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second
Generation. Berkeley: University of California Press. Ch. 1-3, 7-8, 10.
Schwartzman, Kathleen C. 2013. The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and
Corporations across the Americas. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Spickard, Paul R. 2007. Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, And Colonialism In American
History And Identity. New York: Routledge. Ch 1.

RACE AND IDENTITY

Cornell, Stephen, and Douglas Hartmann. 2007. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a
Changing World. 2nd Ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge. Ch. 2-6, 8
James, David R. 1994. The Racial Ghetto as a Race-Making Situation: The Effects of
Residential Segregation on Racial Inequalities and Racial Identity. Law and Social
Inquiry 19 (Spring). [In Yetman reader]
Jimenez, Toms R. 2010. Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and
Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press
Lewis, Amanda E. 2004. What Group?" Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of "Color-
Blindness. Sociological Theory 22: 623-646.
McDermott, Monica, and Samson, Frank L. 2005. White Racial and Ethnic Identity in the
United States. Annual Review of Sociology 31: 245-261.
Roberts, Dorothy. 2011. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create
Race in the Twenty-first Century. New York: The New Press.
Waters, Mary C. 1990. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press. Ch. 1-4, 7.