An Introduction and An Invitation
Good day colleagues,
As many of you may know, my longtime co-editor, David G. Embrick, and I started a book series with the University of Georgia Press, The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, in 2018.
We hope you have been following the work we have published in the series!
Please read on.
In this book series, we are open to new and original research; especially scholarship that pushes new theoretical and methodological boundaries in race/racism/ethnicity; and racial/ethnic oppression/liberation. We are also interested in working with authors who bring interdisciplinary sociological analyses as well as work that is international in scope.
We have already published over a dozen books in the series, with more right around the corner! Check them out:
The Bricks before Brown The Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican Americans’ Struggle for Educational Equality
by Marisela Martinez-Cola
Bodies out of Place Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society
by Barbara Harris Combs
Islamophobia in France The Construction of the “Muslim Problem”
by Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, Translated by Steve Garner
Liberal White Supremacy How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression
by Angie Beeman
Imprisoned: Interlocking Oppression in Law Enforcement, Housing, and Public Education
by Cassi A. Meyerhoffer and Brittany Leigh Rodriguez.
Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality
by Sancha Doxilly Medwinter.
From Jesus to J-Setting: Religious and Sexual Fluidity Among Young Black People
by Sandra Lynn Barnes.
The Souls of Jewish Folk: WEB DuBois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line
by James Michael Thomas.
Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts: 2020 Racial Justice Uprisings
by Eileen O’Brien
Success at a Price: Women of Color Students at a White University
by Lisa C. Huebner, Samantha Jeune, and Odette Kolenky
Original Sin? Reproduction of Racism in a Multiracial Church
by Willie Barnes, Jr. and J. Scott Carter
Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries
by Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott
Enforcing Order on the Border: Raxce, Policing, and Immigration in South Texas
by Eric Gamino
Further, we have more scholarship coming in 2026 by Juman Simaan, Matthew Jerome Schneider, George Baylon Radics and many more!
And, after many, many, many meetings with prospective authors from 2018-present, at international, national, regional conferences, as well as on Zoom, phone, you name it, we have a strong and healthy set of books in the pipeline.
That’s where you come in!
We hope you will consider our series for your work and/or sharing the series with colleagues and students.
Our goal with the series is to seek, nurture, mentor, and publish the best and most important sociological analyses of race and ethnicity that we can find. Particularly ones that “speak to the public square” and across multiple publics.
If you or someone you know might want to consider the series for their work, do not hesitate to forward this email and/or share my contact with them.
We are always open to having discussions with prospective authors at any stage of their project development: early ideas, initial outlines, proposal drafts, chapter drafts, full manuscripts, etc. And are here to support authors to see their work to fruition well past its publication. So, feel free to reach out.
This semester, we are offering four (4) MEET THE EDITORS Zoom meetings for anyone who wants to meet us, chat through ideas, discuss the series, anything! These will be on the 2nd Thursday of each month, February-May, during the 2:00 to 3:00pm (EST) window.
The dates for these are 2/12, 3/12, 4/9, and 5/14. All are welcome. The Zoom link is HERE.
We look forward to working with you.
Peace.
Most sincerely,
David L. Brunsma and David G. Embrick
PS – Our wonderful Series Advisory Board is comprised of Margaret Abraham, Elijah Anderson, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Patricia Hill Collins, Philomena Essed, James Fenelon, David Theo Goldberg, Tanya Golash-Boza, Jose Itzigsohn, Amanda Lewis, Michael Omi, Mary Romero, and Victor Rios.