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Resetting Racism

DeRoche, Courtney
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1715008847029441

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Sociology.
How do sociologists conceptualize race and ethnicity? How have they defined and assessed these concepts historically, and what has changed over time? What about the social processes that lead to each concept: racism (race), ethnocentrism (ethnicity), and nationalism (nation)? Should sociologists focus on conceptualizing the processes over the classificatory schema, and if so, is there one process more influential than the others? These questions are addressed in the first chapter. What makes systemic racism systemic, and what is white supremacy? What does a sociological model of systemic racism look like at multiple levels (global, world regional, national) that accounts for both the mechanisms and manifestations of systemic racism? These questions are addressed in the second chapter. Finally, how long has systemic racism been identifiable in historical time? In other words, when and where did systemic racism originate? Is it even worthwhile to investigate systemic racism’s origins? What does sociology have to gain by incorporating pre-modern racisms into its conceptualizations of systemic racism? These questions and more are addressed in the third chapter. I close with a meditation on the social construct of ancestry as well as the state categories that organize much of the racial inequality literature in sociology today.
Rachel Dwyer (Committee Co-Chair)
Vincent Roscigno (Committee Member)
Reanne Frank (Committee Co-Chair)
229 p.
Sociology
systemic racism; sociological theory; race and ethnicity

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  • DeRoche, C. (2024). Resetting Racism [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1715008847029441

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DeRoche, Courtney. Resetting Racism. 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1715008847029441.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DeRoche, Courtney. "Resetting Racism." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1715008847029441

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