Whiteness in Crisis
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
10-11-2023
Abstract
In The History of White People, historian Nell Painter wrote, “Being White these days isn’t what it used to be.” What, then, does it mean to be White today? Through in-depth interviews with White people living in the American South—a region where the nation’s color line has arguably been drawn brighter than anywhere else—this project examines how White people are making sense of both race and region in the twenty-first century. James M. Thomas (JT) is associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi, and coeditor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. He is the author or coauthor of five books, and over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and invited essays on the causes and consequences of race and racism in America and abroad. His research has been funded by the American Sociological Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation, and has been featured in popular media outlets like the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and Pacific Standard. JT is deeply dedicated to public scholarship, regularly writing for mainstream outlets like the Mississippi Free Press, serving on the boards of nonprofit organizations, and giving public lectures on race, racism, and inequality to academic and lay audiences alike. This SouthTalk is cosponsored by the envisioned University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Race and Racism and Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Relational Format
video recording
Recommended Citation
Thomas, James M., "Whiteness in Crisis" (2023). SouthTalks. 48.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southtalks/48