Racist America (PDF)

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 or co-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, the American Sociological Association's Cox-Johnson-Frazier Scholarship Award, and just recently, the American Sociological Association's Public Understanding of Sociology 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 Québec'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 Université McGill. Her books include Liberation Sociology (Paradigm, 2015), with Joe R. Feagin and Hernán 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.