Racist America ― Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations

This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters. It expands the discussion and data on social science concepts such as intersectionality and gendered racism, as well as the concepts of the white racial frame, systemic racism, and the elite-white-male dominance system from research studies by Joe Feagin and his colleagues. The authors have further polished the book and added more examples, anecdotes, and narratives about contemporary racism to make it yet more readable for undergraduates.

Joe R. Feagin is Distinguished Professor and Ella C. McFadden Professor in Sociology at Texas A&M University. Feagin has done research on racism and sexism issues for decades. He has written 70 scholarly books and 200 scholarly articles in his research areas, and one of his books (Ghetto Revolts) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His numerous Routledge books include Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression (Routledge, 2006); The White Racial Frame (second edition, Routledge, 2013); Racist America (third edition, Routledge, 2014); and Elite White Men Ruling (Routledge, 2017), with Kimberley Ducey. Feagin is the recipient of the Soka Gakkai International-USA Social Justice Award, the American Association for Affirmative Action’s Arthur Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Sociological Association’s W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and American Sociological Association’s Cox-Johnson-Frazier Scholarship Award. He is a past-president of the American Sociological Association.

Kimberley Ducey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. Her research, teaching, and activism focuses on race, ethnicity, Indigenous relations, class, gender, and masculinity. She is a recipient of Quebec’s Forces AVENIR Scholar-Activist Award, the University of Windsor’s Students Special Needs Campus Community Recognition Award, and various Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Windsor and Universite McGill. Her books include Liberation Sociology (Paradigm, 2015), with Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera; Elite White Men Ruling (Routledge, 2017), with Joe R. Feagin; and Systemic Racism Theory: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), edited with Ruth Thompson-Miller.