Repositioning Race

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama AgePart 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 HoleEduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers2. Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented TenthEarl Wright II3. Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as a Critical Race TheoristRobert L. ReecePart II. Daily Experiences and Implications of a Post-Racial Obama Age 4. Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to NightmareCedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton5. Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic RacismLouwanda Evans and Joe FeaginPart III. Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts 6. Contextualizing ‘Race’ in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism, and Anti-HaitianismAntonio D. Tillis7. "U.S. Blacks are beautiful but Brazilian Blacks are not racist": Brazilian Return Migrants’ Perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian BlacksTiffany D. Joseph8. Africa Speaks: The "Place" of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum ExhibitsDerrick R. Brooms Epilogue: Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of InquiryList of ContributorsIndex