Meghan A. Burke is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in social theory, race and ethnic relations, urban and community sociology, and social inequalities. Her research examines the links between ideology, discourse, and social action. The article published here is part of a larger book called Ambivalent Pride: Looking Inside Diverse Communities (Lexington forthcoming). The author has also published in the Journal of Race and Policy and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Her current research project is a qualitative study of Tea Party organizers in Illinois.
David Dietrich is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. He received his PhD from Duke University in 2011. His areas of interest are racial and ethnic relations, social movements, immigration, social stratification, and sociological theory. His recent research includes examinations of racism in the popular debate over illegal immigration, race in online virtual worlds, and anti-affirmative action protests on college campuses. His current research is an examination of the anti-illegal immigration, anti-abortion/pro-life, and Tea Party movements, in which he applies and integrates aspects of social movement theory, race theory, and Bourdieu’s concept of capital to explain the ideologies of conservative social movements.
Kevin Gosine is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD from York University in Toronto, Canada. His areas of scholarly interest include the critical study of ethnicity and racialization, social identity, antiracism, cultural studies, and Canadian social policy.
Loren Henderson is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Social Science at Wright College. Her research has focused on race, class, gender, sexuality, and the changing meanings and controversies surrounding diversity. Her work has been published in the Journal of African American Studies, Families as They Really Are, and the Illinois Report.
Cedric Herring is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Race and Public Policy Program in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois. Dr Herring is former national president of the Association of Black Sociologists. He publishes on topics such as race and public policy, stratification and inequality, diversity, and jobs and economic development. He has published six books and more than 60 scholarly articles in outlets such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Review of Black Political Economy. His most recent book is Combating Racism and Xenophobia: Transatlantic and International Perspectives (Institute of Government and Public Affairs 2011). He has received support for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and others. In addition, he has shared his findings in community forums, in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, before government officials, and at the United Nations.
Michelle R. Jacobs is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University in Ohio. She studies social inequalities, with specific interests in racial and ethnic relations, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and qualitative methods. Her current research explores strategies for negotiating American Indian identities in an urban context.
Cecilia Rio is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Towson University in Maryland. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who received her doctorate in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2001. Her academic work focuses on the intersection of race, gender, class, and domestic labor.
Tiffany Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University. In her research, she examines a number of topics related to inequality. Her work has included studies of workplace inequality and women’s access to management, a comparative case study of the ability of two women’s organizations to recruit and retain volunteers, an intersectional analysis of the differences in feeling and expressing anger, and gender differences in work and family balance. More recently, she has been exploring policy implementation of programs for the poor in North Carolina and Ohio using both qualitative and quantitative methods. She received her PhD in sociology from North Carolina State University in 2008.
Johnny E. Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology at Trinity College. He conducts research in the fields of social movements, political sociology, religion, racism, cultural sociology, and the sociology of science, and is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi 2003).
