RACE/ETHNICITY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST
SOCIOLOGY (PHD)
Kent State University – University of Akron
MAJOR
OVERVIEWS, HISTORICAL, THEORY, AND METHODS
Alba, Richard D. 1990. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Allport, G. [1988] 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Reprinted, Reading, MA: AddisonWesley.
Baca Zinn, Maxine, and Bonnie Thornton-Dill. 1996. “Theorizing Differences from
Multiracial Feminism.” Feminist Studies 22:321-31.
Bobo, Lawrence and Vincent L. Hutchings. 1996. “Perceptions of Racial Group
Competition: Extending Blumer’s Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social
Context.” American Sociological Review 61:951-972.
Bonacich, Edna. 1972. “A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market.”
American Sociological Review 37:547-59.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 1996. “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation.”
American Sociological Review 62:465-80.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2003. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the
Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman and
Littlefield.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1991. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge.
Davis, Angela. 1993. Women, Race, & Class. New York: NY: Vintage Books.
DuBois, W.E.B. [1903] 1993. The Souls of Black Folk. Reprint, New York: Knopf.
Essed, Philomena and David Theo Goldberg. 2002. Race Critical Theories. Malden, MA:
Blackwell.
Espiritu,Yen L. 1992. Asian American Pan Ethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities.
(Chapters 1-3, Pp. 1-81) Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
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Feagin, Joe and Clairece Booher Feagin. 1978. “Institutionalized Discrimination.” Pp.
19-41 in Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism. Malabar, FL:
Robert E. Krieger.
Furstenberg, Frank. 2007. “The Making of the Black Family: Race and Class in
Qualitative Studies in the 20th Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 429-448.
Hirschman, Charles. 1983. “America’s Melting Pot Reconsidered.” Annual Review of
Sociology 9:397-423.
Hirschman, Charles. 2004. “The Origins and Demise of the Concept of Race.”
Population and Development Review 30:385-415.
Johnson, Allan. 2006. Privilege, Power, and Difference. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Kaplowitz, Stan A., Bradley J. Fisher, and Clifford L. Broman. 2003. “How Accurate are
Perceptions of Social Statistics about Blacks and Whites?: Effects of Race and
Education.” Public Opinion Quarterly 67:237-43.
McKee, James. 1993. Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois.
Merton, Robert. 1995. “Discrimination and the American Creed.” Pp. 33-55 in Sources:
Noteable Selection in Race and Ethnicity, edited by Adalverto Aguirre, Jr., and David
Vaker. Guilford, CT: Dushkin.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States: From
the 1960s to the 1990s. NY: Routledge.
Sears, David O. 1988. “Symbolic Racism.” Pp. 53-84 in Eliminating Racism: Profiles in
Controversy. New York: Plenum.
Snipp, Mathew C. 2003. Racial measurement in the American census: Past Practices and
Implications fro the Future.” Annual Review of Sociology 29:563-88
Steinberg, Stephen. 1989. The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity and Class in America.
Boston: Beacon.
Waters, Mary C. 1996. “Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?” Pp. 444-454 in Origins
and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America, edited by Sylvia Pedraza and
Rubén Rumbaut. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press.
Weber, Max. (1978). “Ethnic Groups” in Economy and Society (Pp. 385-398), translated
by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Winant, Howard. 2000. “Race and Race Theory.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:169-85.
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RACISM/PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
Blumer, Herbert. 1958. “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position.” Pacific
Sociological Review 1:3-7.
Bowser, Benjamin and Raymond Hunt. 1996. Impacts of Racism on White Americans. 2d
ed. (Chapters 1-4, Pp. 1-87). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Charles, Camille Zubrinsky. 2003. "The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation."
Annual Review of Sociology 29:167-207.
Conley, Dalton. 1999. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in
America. (Chapters 1-3, Pp. 1-82). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Dodoo, Francis N. A. and Baffour K. Takyi. 2002. “Race and Earnings: Magnitude of
Difference among American Africans.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 25:913-41.
Emerson, Michael O., George Yancey, and Karen J. Chai. 2001. "Does Race Matter in
Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans." American
Sociological Review 66: 922-935.
Feagin, Joe. 1991. “The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in
Public Places.” American Sociological Review 56:101-16.
Feagin, Joe and Clairece Booher Feagin. 1978. “Institutionalized Discrimination.” Pp.
19-41 in Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism. Malabar, FL:
Robert E. Krieger.
Feagin, Joe and Melvin Sikes. 1994. Living with Racism: The Black Middle Class
Experience. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. “From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities
in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor.” Signs 18:64-80.
Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. “Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation
and Devaluation across U. S. Labor Markets.” American Journal of Sociology 109:90236.
Kao, Grace. 2000. “Group Images and Possible Selves among Adolescents: Linking
Stereotypes to Expectations by Race and Ethnicity.” Sociological Forum 15:407-30.
Keith, Verna M. and Cedric Herring. 1991. “Skin Tone and Stratification in the Black
Community.” American Journal of Sociology 97:760-78.
Kozol, Jonathan. 2005. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling
in America. New York: Three Rivers Press. Chapters 1-3.
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Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and
the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Myers, Kristen. 2003. "White Fright: Reproducing White Supremacy through Casual
Discourse." Pp. 129-144 in White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism, edited by
A. W. Doane and E. Bonilla-Silva. New York: Routledge.
O'Brien, Eileen. 2008. The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond
the Racial Divide. New York: New York University Press.
Oliver, Melvin and Thomas Shapiro. 1997. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New
Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge.
Pager, Devah and Hana Shepherd. 2008. "The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial
Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets." Annual
Review of Sociology 34:181-209.
Pager, Devah and Lincoln Quillian. 2005. “What Employers Say Versus What They Do”
American Sociological Review 70:355-80.
Pattillo, Mary. 2005. "Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods." Annual Review of Sociology
31:305-329.
Quadagno, Jill S. 1994. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on
Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.
Quillan, Lincoln. 2006. “New Approaches to Understanding Racial Prejudice and
Discrimination.” Annual Review of Sociology 32:299-328.
Roscigno, Vincent J., Lisette Garcia, Sherry Mong, and Reginald Byron. 2007. "Racial
Discrimination at Work: Its Occurence, Dimensions, and Consequences." Research in
Race & Ethnic Relations 14:111-135.
Sidanius, J. and Pratto, F. 1999. Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social
Hierarchy and Oppression. (Part I, Pp. 1-58). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Steffensmeier, Darrell and Stephen Demuth. 2000. “Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes
in U.S. Federal Courts: Who is Punished More Harshly?” American Sociological Review
65:705-29.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald and Vincent J. Roscigno. 1996. “Racial Economic
Subordination and White Gain in the U.S. South.” American Sociological Review 61:56589.
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Williams, David R., Neighbors, Harold W., and Jackson, James S. 2003. Racial/Ethnic
discrimination and health: findings from community studies. American Journal of Public
Health 93 (2): 200-208.
INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
Amott, Teresa and Julie Matthaei. 1996. Race, Gender, and Work: A Multi-Cultural
Economic History of Women in the United States. Boston, MA: South End Press.
Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Aries, Elizabeth, Rose R. Olver, Kirsten Blount, Kevin Christaldi, Steffany Fredman, and
Trinda Lee. 1998. “Race and Gender as Components of the Working Self-Concept.” The
Journal of Social Psychology 138:277-90.
Arnett Ferguson, Ann. 2001. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black
Masculinity. (Chapters 1-3, Pp. 1-76). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Bettie, Julie. 2003. Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. University of
California Press: Berkeley, CA
Christie-Mizell, C. André. 2006. “The Effects of Traditional Family and Gender Ideology
on Earnings: Race and Gender Differences.” Journal of Family and Economic Issox,
Cox, Oliver. 1948. Caste, Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. New York:
Monthly Review Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 1993. “Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as
Categories of Analysis and Connection.” Race, Sex & Class 1:25-45.
Duncan, Greg J. and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, eds. 1997. Chapter 1 (Pp. 1-17) in
Consequences of Growing Up Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Higginbotham, Elizabeth and Lynn Weber. 1992. “Moving Up with Kin and Community:
Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women.” Gender & Society 6:416-40.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2001. Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring
in the Shadows of Affluence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Lareau, Annette. 2002. “Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black
Families and White Families.” American Sociological Review 67:747-76.
Rousseau, Nicole. 2009. Black Woman’s Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction.
New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
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Schulz, Amy J. and Leith Mullings, eds. 2006. Gender, Race, Class, & Health:
Intersectional Approaches. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Stack, Carol. 1983. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New
York, NY: Basic Books.
Williams, David R. and Chiquita Collins. 1995. “US Socioeconomic and Racial
Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations.” Annual Review of Sociology 21:34986.
Willie, Charles V. 1989. Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty: Round Two
of the Willie/Wilson Debate. New York: General Hall.
Wilson, William Julius. 1996. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban
Poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass,
and Public Policy. (Chapters 1-3, Pp. 1-92). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago
Press.
Wilson, William Julius. 2001. “The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and
Changing American Institutions.” Pp. 611-623 in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and
Gender in Sociological Perspective, edited by David Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview.
IMMIGRATION
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. 1997. “Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of
Immigration.” International Migration Review 31: 826-874.
Bonacich, Edna. 1973. “A Theory of Middleman Minorities.” American Sociological
Review 38:583-94.
Chavez, Leo. 1992. Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. .
Fortworth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
DeWind, Josh. and Philip Kasinitz. 1997. “Everything Old is New Again – Processes and
Theories of Immigrant Incorporation.” International Migration Review 31:1096-1111.
Foner, Nancy. 2000. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of
Immigration. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Gans, Herbert. 1979. “Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in
America.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 2(1): 1-20.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of
Immigration. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Kasinitz, Phillip, John MollenKopf, Mary Waters and Jennifer Holladay. 2008.
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Kwong, Peter. 1997. Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American
Labor. New York: New Press.
Massey, Douglas and Luin Goldring and Jorge Durand. 1994. “Continuities in
Transnational Migration: An Analysis of Nineteen Mexican Communities.” American
Journal of Sociology 99: 1492-1533.
Menjivar, Cecilia. 2000. Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Menjivar, Cecilia. 2006. “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’
Lives in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 111: 999-1037.
Nakano Glenn, Evelyn. 1983. “Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner:
An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies”. Journal of Marriage and the
Family: 35-46.
Pessar, Patricia. 1999. “The Role of Gender, Households and Social Networks in the
Migration Process: A Review and Reappraisal.” In Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz
and Josh DeWind, eds., The Handbook of International Migration: The American
Experience. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Portes, Alejandro. 1999. “Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and
Opportunities.” In Hirschman Charles, Philip Kasinitz and Josh DeWind (eds). The
Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience. New York: Russell
Sage Foundation.
Portes, Alejandro, and Mim Zhou. 1993. “The New Second Generation: Segmented
Assimilation and Its Variants.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Sciences 530:74-96.
Tuan, Mia. 2001. Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic
Experience Today. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Waldinger, Roger. 1996. Still the Promised City? African Americans and New
Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Waters, Mary. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American
Realities. New York: Russell Sage.
Zhou, Min. 1992. Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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Zhou, Min, and Carl L. Bankston III. 1994. “Social Capital and the Adaptation of the
Second Generation: The Case of Vietnamese Youth in New Orleans.” International
Migration Review 28:821-45.
WHITENESS STUDIES
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, Carla Goar, and David G. Embrick. 2006. “When Whites Flock
Together: White Habitus and the Social Psychology of Whites’ Social and Residential
Segregation from Blacks.” Critical Sociology 32 (2-3): 229-254.
Doane, Ashley W. and Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2003. White Out: The Continuing
Significance of Racism. New York: Routledge.
Fordham, Signithia and John U. Ogbu. 1986. “Black Students’ School Success: Coping
with the Burden of ‘Acting White.’” The Urban Review 18:176-206.
Lewis, Amanda E. 2004. “What Group?" Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of
"Color-Blindness.” Sociological Theory 22: 623-646.
Lundy, Garvey F. 2003. “The Myths of Oppositional Culture.” Journal of Black Studies
33: 450-467.
McDermott, Monica, and Samson, Frank L. 2005. “White Racial and Ethnic Identity in
the United States.” Annual Review of Sociology 31: 245-261.
Roediger, David. R. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the
American Working Class. New York: Verso.
Wellman, David T. 1993. Portraits of White Racism. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press.
Wray, Matt. 2006. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
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