Doane Publishes Chapter and Book Review

Woody Doane, Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, and Associate Dean for Academic Administration of Hillyer College, had his chapter "Colorblindness: The Lens that Distorts" published in the book The Myth of Colorblindness: Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema (Sarah Turner and Sarah Nielsen, eds., New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2019). In his opening chapter, Doane provides a critical overview of the current state of theorizing colorblind racial inequality. This includes both a discussion of the political and social significance of colorblindness and an analysis of its dynamic and contradictory nature. He then presents a brief analysis of racial ideology and movies, with a focus on the 2016 controversy over black representation at the Academy Awards ceremony (#OscarsSoWhite).

Earlier this semester, Woody also had his review of Joel Best's American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World (University of California Press, 2018) published in Contemporary Sociology, the American Sociological Association's official journal for reviews of important new books in sociology and related fields.