Joe Feagin


Joe Richard Feagin is an American sociologist and social theorist who has conducted extensive research on racial and gender issues in the United States. He is currently the Ella C. McFadden Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

History

Feagin has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, University of California, Riverside, University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Florida. He focused most of his research work on race and ethnic relations, and served as the scholar in residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has written over 60 books. He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni Association achievement award and was the 1999–2000 president of the American Sociological Association.

Early life

Feagin was born in San Angelo, Texas, in May 1938. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Houston, in the area now known as West University Place. He attended Mirabeau B. Lamar High School.

Education

He completed his undergraduate education at Baylor University in 1960 and moved to Boston, where he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1966. He was scholar-in-residence at the US Civil Rights Commission. He is the Ella C. McFadden and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. His research and teaching interests concern mainly the development and structure of racial and gender prejudice and discrimination, especially institutional and systemic discrimination and racism.

Works

Feagin has published books which have won national and professional association awards. Ghetto Revolts was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni Association lifetime achievement award and was the 1999–2000 president of the American Sociological Association

Research (books)

He is author of over 200 research articles and 70 plus books on racial, gender, and urban issues. Amongst his books are:
  • Asian American Women with S. Chang
  • A Systemic Racism Critique of Racial Theories with S. Elias
  • Microaggressions and the Language of Racial Analysis with E. Chun
  • Rethinking Diversity Issues in Higher Education with E. Chun
  • Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance with J. Cobas, D. Delgado, and M. Chávez
  • The Global Color Line: Racial and Ethnic Inequality and Struggle from a Global Perspective 2nd ed. edited with P. Batur-Vanderlippe
  • Racist America 4th ed. with K. Ducey
  • Elite White Men Ruling: Who, What, Where, and How with K. Ducey
  • Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real edited by R. Thompson-Miller and K. Ducey; contributors present research on systemic racism in honor of mentor and friend, Dr. Joe Feagin
  • How Blacks Built America
  • Racial Theories in Social Science with S. Elias
  • How Blacks Built America
  • Jim Crow’s Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation with R. Thompson-Miller and L. H. Picca
  • "Pulling Back the ‘Post-Racial’ Curtain: Critical Pedagogical Lessons from Both Sides of the Desk," in K. Haltinner, ed., Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Adding Context to Colorblindness..
  • "Systemic Racism Theory: Critically Examining College Sport Leadership," in L. L. Martin, Out of Bounds: Racism and the Black Athlete..
  • Liberation Sociology with Hernan Vera and K. Ducey
  • Latinos Facing Racism: Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance with José A. Cobas
  • Racist America
  • The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
  • Yes We Can: White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency with A. Harvey-Wingfield
  • White Party, White Government: Race, Class, and U.S. Politics
  • Racial and Ethnic Relations with Clairece Booher Feagin
  • How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and its Consequences edited, with José A. Cobas and Jorge Duany
  • Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression
  • Social Problems: A Power-Conflict Perspective
  • Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism Kenneth Bolton with Joe R. Feagin
  • White Men on Race with Eileen O'Brien
  • The Many Costs of Racism with Karyn McKinney
  • The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism with Debra Van Ausdale
  • White Racism: The Basics with Hernan Vera and Pinar Batur
Other notable books:
  • In 2014 he published a book about Asian Americans with Rosalind S. Chou titled Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism. The second edition added new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews showed that Asian American men felt emasculated in America's male hierarchy. Women recounted their experiences of being treated as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersected in the lives of Asian Americans. The text offered the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experiencedand coped with everyday racism. The book depicted the “double consciousness” of many Asian Americans, who experienced racism but felt pressure to conform to images of their group as America's highly achieving “model minority.”
  • In 2007, Feagin published Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage, written with Leslie Houts Picca. Two-Faced Racism examines and explains racial attitudes and behaviours exhibited by whites in private settings. The core of the book drew upon journals of racial events kept by white college students at twenty-eight colleges in the United States. The book tried to understand how whites thought in racial terms.
  • In 1996, Feagin published The Agony of Education: Black Students at a White University with Hernan Vera and Nikitah Imani. The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university, based on interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, and studies of the black experience at state universities.

    Research (peer-reviewed articles)

He is author of over 200 research articles on racial, gender, and urban issues. Amongst his articles are:
  • "#BlackLivesMatter: Innovative Black Resistance," Sociological Forum forthcoming 2019
  • "Free Space is Valuable Space: Lessons from Chocolate Cities," Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 : 431–438.
  • "Systemic Racism and 'Race' Categorization in U.S. Medical Research and Practice," American Journal of Bioethics 17 :54–56.
  • "The Persistence of White Nationalism in America," Contexts online journal pages
  • "The Costs of Policing Violence: Foregrounding Cognitive and Emotional Labor," Critical Sociology 41 :887–895.
  • "Systemic Racism and U.S. Health Care," Social Science & Medicine 103 :7–14..
  • "Rethinking Racial Formation Theory: A Systemic Racism Critique," Ethnic and Racial Studies 36 :1–30..
  • "The Racial Dialectic: President Barack Obama and the White Racial Frame," Qualitative Sociology 31
  • "Language Oppression and Resistance: Latinos in the United States," Ethnic and Racial Studies 31 : 390–410
  • "Latinos/as and the White Racial Frame," Sociological Inquiry 78 : 39–53
  • "Continuing Injuries of Racism: Counseling in a Racist Context," The Counseling Psychologist 35 : 106–115
  • "Success and Failure: How Systemic Racism Trumped the Brown v. Board of Education Decision," University of Illinois Law Review : 1099–1130
  • "Heeding Black Voices: The Court, Brown, and Challenges in Building a Multiracial Democracy," University of Pittsburgh Law Review 66 : 57–81
  • "Documenting The Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Discrimination: Are Reparations in Order for African Americans?" Harvard Black Letter Law Journal 20 : 49–80
  • "White Supremacy and Mexican Americans: Rethinking the Black-White Paradigm", Rutgers Law Review 54 : 959–987.
  • "The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities", American Council on Education, Occasional Papers 1 : 1–54.
  • "The Many Costs of Discrimination: The Case of Middle-Class African Americans," Indiana Law Review 34 : 1313–1360
  • "Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century," American Sociological Review 66 :1–20.
  • "Doing Antiracism and Making a Nonracist Society," Contemporary Sociology, 29 : 95–110
  • "Excluding Blacks and Others from Housing: The Foundation of White Racism," Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 4 : 79–91
  • "The Family Costs of White Racism: The Case of African American Families," Journal of Comparative Family Studies 29
  • "Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children," American Sociological Review 61 :779–793..
  • "Violent Police-Citizen Encounters: An Analysis of Major Newspaper Accounts," Critical Sociology 22 : 29–49
  • "Racism in the Post-Colonial World," International Policy Review 6 : 30–40
  • "White Racism: Bibliographic Essay," Choice 33 : 903–914
  • "Affirmative Action and African Americans: Rhetoric and Practice," Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 21 : 81–104
  • "Superior Intellect?: Sincere Fictions of the White Self," Journal of Negro Education 64 : 296–306
  • "Rethinking White-Black Relations in the United States: Toward a Theory of Racism as Sacrificial Waste," Journal of Contemporary Sociology 31 : 162–182
  • "Reparations for Catastrophic Waste," Poverty and Race 3 : 4
  • "The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places," American Sociological Review 56 :101–116.