InRepositioning Race, leading African American sociologists assess the current state of race theory, racial discrimination, and research on race in order to chart a path toward a more engaged public scholarship. They contemplate not only the paradoxes of Black freedom but also the paradoxes of equality and progress for the progeny of the civil rights generation in the wake of the election of the first African American US president. Despite the proliferation of ideas about a postracial society, the volume highlights the ways that racial discrimination persists in both the United States and the African Diaspora in the Global South, allowing for unprecedented African American progress in the midst of continuing African American marginalization.

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Introduction: Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age

Part I. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership

1. Race Matters in “Post-Racial”OBAMERICA and How to Climb Out of the Rabbit Hole
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers

2. Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented Tenth
Earl Wright II

3. Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as a Critical Race Theorist
Robert L. Reece

Part II. Daily Experiences and Implications of a Post-Racial Obama Age

4. Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to Nightmare
Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton

5. Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic Racism
Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin

Part III. Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts

6. Contextualizing ‘Race’ in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism, and Anti-Haitianism
Antonio D. Tillis

7. “U.S. Blacks are beautiful but Brazilian Blacks are not racist”: Brazilian Return Migrants’ Perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian Blacks
Tiffany D. Joseph

8. Africa Speaks: The “Place” of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum Exhibits
Derrick R. Brooms

Epilogue: Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of Inquiry

List of Contributors
Index