Social Inequalities - Sociology - Social Inequalities - UCF Research Guides at University of Central Florida Libraries

Core/Essential Readings

Core/Essential Readings – These readings are central to sociological perspectives of social inequalities. Students should read and be very familiar with these works.

Alexander. (2020). The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
Bonilla-Silva. (2006). Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Connell, R.W. and Rebecca Pearse. 2015. Gender: In World Perspective (3rd edition). Polity.
Crenshaw. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
Delgado, & Stefancic, J. (2013). Critical race theory : the cutting edge (Third edition). Temple University Press.
West, & Zimmerman, D. H. (1987). Doing Gender. Gender & Society, 1(2), 125–151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243287001002002

Additional Readings

Additional Readings – Students should be familiar with some of the following seminal works as they apply to the students’ subareas of expertise, as well as additional readings from coursework and independent research related to the students’ specific areas. Additional readings may be identified in collaboration with the student’s faculty advisor.

Anderson, Elijah. 2022. Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color on Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press.
Bailey, Moya and Ezetta Autumn Mobley. 2018. “Work in the intersections: A black feminist disability framework.” Gender & Society 33(1): 19-40.
Banks, Joy, and Michael S. Hughes. 2013. “Double Consciousness: Postsecondary Experiences of African American Males with Disabilities.” The Journal of Negro Education 82(4):368-381.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2019. "Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions." American Sociological Review 84(1): 1-25
Brunsma, David L., et al. 2020. “The Culture of White Space: On The Racialized Production of Meaning.” American Behavioral Scientist 64(14): 2001-2015.
Butler. (1999). Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge.
Feagin. (2020). The white racial frame : centuries of racial framing and counter-framing (Third Edition.). Routledge.
Freire, Paolo. 2000. Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.
Gender & Society Special Issue: Gender, Disability, and Intersectionality (2019). 33(1).
Golash-Boza, Duenas, M. D., & Xiong, C. (2019). White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Global Capitalism in Migration Studies. The American Behavioral Scientist (Beverly Hills), 63(13), 1741–1759. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219842624
Harding, Sandra. 2004. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies. New York: Routledge.
Hill Collins. (2000). Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment (Rev. 10th anniversary ed.). Routledge.
Mayorga-Gallo. (2019). The White-Centering Logic of Diversity Ideology. The American Behavioral Scientist (Beverly Hills), 63(13), 1789–1809. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219842619
Phelan, & Link, B. G. (2015). Is Racism a Fundamental Cause of Inequalities in Health? Annual Review of Sociology, 41(1), 311–330. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112305
Ray. (2019). A Theory of Racialized Organizations. American Sociological Review, 84(1), 26–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418822335
Roberts, Dorothy. 1997. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Vintage Books
Schilt, & Lagos, D. (2017). The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 43(1), 425–443. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053348
West, & Fenstermaker, S. (1995). Doing Difference. Gender & Society, 9(1), 8–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/089124395009001002
Wingfield, Adia Harvey. 2022. Gray Areas: How the Way we Work Perpetuates Racism & What We Can Do to Fix It.
Wingfield. (2019). Flatlining : Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy. University of California Press,. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520971783