RACE/ETHNICITY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST
SOCIOLOGY (PHD)
Kent State University – University of Akron
MINOR
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. 1983. 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: 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.
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Winant, Howard. 2000. “Race and Race Theory.” Annual Review of Sociology 26:16985.
RACISM/PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
Charles, Camille Zubrinsky. 2003. "The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation."
Annual Review of Sociology 29:167-207.
Feagin, Joe. 1991. “The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in
Public Places.” American Sociological Review 56:101-16.
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.
Kozol, Jonathan. 2005. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling
in America. New York: Three Rivers Press. Chapters 1-3.
Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and
the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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.
Quillan, Lincoln. 2006. “New Approaches to Understanding Racial Prejudice and
Discrimination.” Annual Review of Sociology 32:299-328.
INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community.
Chicago: University of Chicago 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.
Schulz, Amy J. and Leith Mullings, eds. 2006. Gender, Race, Class, & Health:
Intersectional Approaches. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
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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.
IMMIGRATION
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. 1997. “Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of
Immigration.” International Migration Review 31: 826-874.
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.
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.
Waters, Mary. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American
Realities. New York: Russell Sage.
WHITENESS STUDIES
Doane, Ashley W. and Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2003. White Out: The Continuing
Significance of Racism. New York: Routledge.
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.
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