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In 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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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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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	10 avril 2014
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Langue	English

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REPOSITIONING
RACE
SUNY series in African American Studies
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John R. Howard and Robert C. Smith, editors
PROPHETIC RESEARCH IN A POSTRACIAL OBAMA AGE
Edited by
SANDRA L. BARNES ZANDRIA F. ROBINSON EARL WRIGHT II
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
© 2014 State University of New York
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Repositioning race : prophetic research in a postracial Obama age / edited by Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria F. Robinson, and Earl Wright II. pages cm. — (SUNY series in African American studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-5085-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. United States—Race relations. 2. African Americans—Social conditions—21st century. 3. Race relations. I. Barnes, Sandra L. II. Robinson, Zandria F. III. Wright II, Earl.
E184.A1R446 2014
305.800973—dc23
2013019604
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This volume is dedicated to those scholars who, 40 years ago, affirmed the prophetic tradition in Black sociology. Moreover, it is dedicated to the many scholars, teachers, students, and community activists of color who serve tirelessly and sacrificed on behalf of disenfranchised people worldwide. With the continued help of other prophetic thinkers and doers, your labor will not be in vain.
Contents
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
I NTRODUCTION
Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age
P ART I
The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership
C HAPTER 1
Race Matters in “Postracial” OBAMERICA and How to Climb Out of the Rabbit Hole
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers
C HAPTER 2
Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented Tenth
Earl Wright II
C HAPTER 3
Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as Critical Race Theorist
Robert L. Reece
P ART II
Daily Experiences and Implications of the Postracial Obama Age
C HAPTER 4
Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to Nightmare
Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton
C HAPTER 5
Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic Racism
Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin
P ART III
Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts
C HAPTER 6
Contextualizing “Race” in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism and Anti-Haitianism
Antonio D. Tillis
C HAPTER 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
C HAPTER 8
Africa Speaks: The “Place” of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum Exhibits
Derrick R. Brooms
E PILOGUE
Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of Inquiry
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
In 1973 sociologist Joyce Ladner edited The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture , a collection of works that affirmed the epistemological and scientific rigor of the Black sociological tradition. Published in the wake of the establishment of the Association of Black Sociologists, The Death of White Sociology signified a critical moment in the reclamation of the Black sociological tradition established by W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Oliver Cromwell Cox, E. Franklin Frazier, and a host of other twentieth-century scholars of race. This volume emerged from a similar critical moment: the historic election of Barack Obama and the 40th anniversary of the Association of Black Sociologists. We endeavored to answer two primary questions: (1) what is the meaning of race in the twenty-first century, and (2) what role should the black sociological tradition play in advancing racial justice in the twenty-first century? This volume is a result of members’ grappling with these and other questions at the 40th annual conference in August 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
This volume is indebted to the Black sociological tradition, which informs our scholarly and activist contributions to ameliorating the condition of marginalized peoples globally. We are grateful to the volume’s contributors, who herein highlight key issues in sociological research on race that will shape research inquiry in the twenty-first century. We are most appreciative to the members of the Association of Black Sociologists, past and present, whose commitment to social change is reflected in these pages.
Introduction

Repositioning Race
Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age

On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 75-year-old Mildred Pierce sat mesmerized during the televised inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. Her experiences as a Black child living in the Jim Crow South and later as an adult resident of several northern cities all confirmed that such an event would never take place—at least not in her lifetime. Yet she silently shed a tear as the seemingly impossible episode unfolded. This scenario took place in homes around the country as U.S. citizens witnessed the historic inauguration. Some people were overjoyed, others were dismayed, and still others were ambivalent. Yet no one could deny the reality that the United States had elected its first Black president. Our collective understandings of race and national politics would forever be altered. That the majority of Blacks voted for Obama is not surprising (note: Black and African American are used interchangeably throughout this volume). Furthermore, that members of other minority groups also provided strong support may not be surprising. Racial and ethnic minorities have for several decades formed an important part of the Democratic base (Lincoln and Mamiya 1990). Yet many scholars, political pundits, and skeptics were astonished by the substantial number of Whites—most reports show about 40%—who helped elect Obama. Younger as well as more formally educated Whites were particularly supportive as they moved across racial lines, and some across party lines, to support the Black candidate (Cohen 2008; Kuhn 2008). Similar voting patterns were evident for the now President Obama during the 2012 election (Sherman 2012; Sherwood 2012). What do these seminal turns of events mean for racial identity, race relations, and racial reconciliation, as well as international, national, regional, and local views about race in the twenty-first century? Of equal importance, what do the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections mean for people, particularly racial minorities, on a day-to-day basis? While in some ways discussions, research, and even our ideas and beliefs about race have been irrevocably turned on end, in other ways a tradition of prophetic research and scholarship that dates back to Alexander Crummell, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois, has prepared us to proactively examine these relatively unchartered intellectual and emotional spaces.
We formally borrow this term from scholar, theologian, cleric, and social democrat Cornel West in Race Matters (1993) calls for prophetic Black thinkers and leaders to turn the tide of nihilism in Black America and apathy toward race matters in the larger society. A prophetic mode of inquiry is inherently inquisitive, proactive, culturally sensitive, introspective, collaborative, and creative. It is not necessarily religious, but it is invariably radical. In our volume, prophetic research is framed by sound sociological approaches and draws on other disciplines and thought processes where productive to comprehensively consider subjects of inquiry. Most importantly, repositioning race based on a prophetic stance means recognizing that rigorous academic research is impotent without applied efforts and social policy that empower the Black community and other disenfranchised people worldwide. One is not required to be Black or a sociologist to participate in the prophetic repositioning of race for the twenty-first century, but one must be willing to center her or his research within the experiences of the historically oppressed—and willing to accept the challenge to grapple with the exciting but often-troubling complexities inherent in such an undertaking. In this context, prophetic research is a metaphor for the cutting-edge approaches and academic lenses required to study the nuances of race and racial matters in society today as well as to move academic disciplines, researchers, students, grassroots activists, and everyday folks beyond our current views and responses on the subject.
Crummell, Wells, and Du Bois were engaged in prophetic work that not only highlighted and challenged the social construction of race but also inspired activist interventions on local, national, and international levels. Yet, in a “postracial” era, is the kind of prophetic research in which Crummell,