“If there's a book that you want to read,
but it hasn't been written yet,
then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
Published in 2024 by Polity Press, this book builds on academic theories and my own cross-national research, two decades of teaching, and analyses of contemporary issues to delve into a dozen common perceptions about racism. In revealing them to be rooted in what scholars call an "epistemology of ignorance," it conceptualized these perceptions as fallacies and explains who how they justify and uphold white supremacy (inadvertently or otherwise).
In August 2023, I submitted a book manuscript that offers a comprehensive treatment of racial perception and its role in perpetuating racial inequality. The book summarizes recent shifts in racial logics, explains how contemporary logics lead to racial perceptions that reproduce racial inequality, covers the role of understudied physical features in racial perception, explores racialized queerness, and highlights future developments in the next generation.
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Published in 2020, this award-winning co-authored book draws on our original cross-national research as well as the Critical Mixed Race Studies literature. It compares and contrasts the past and present experiences of mixed-race people in the United Kingdom and United States as well as contemplates the future of and research on this growing population.
Published in 2012, this edited volume is the first book length analysis of the society presented in the Harry Potter series. The chapters represent the breadth of sociological topics of interest, from classic foci like economics, groups and social stigma to contemporary topics like the social construction of technology and trauma memory.