Chandra V. Reyna, Boise State aluma and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology, contributed a chapter titled “Pursuing Racial Justice on Predominantly White Campuses: Divergent Institutional Responses to Racially Palatable and Racially Conscious Students” to the forthcoming book “Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change” edited by Rashawn Ray and Hoda Mahmoudi. The book, published by Routledge, drops on March 31, 2022.
Book description from the publisher’s website:
This volume assembles renowned and thought-provoking social scientists to address the destructive impacts of structural racism and the recent, incendiary incidents that have driven racial injustice and racial inequality to the fore of public discussion and debate. The book is organized into three parts to explore and explain the ways in which racism persists, permeates, and operates within our society. The first part presents theoretical perspectives to analyze the roots and manifestation of contemporary racism; the second concentrates on educational inequality and structural issues within our institutions of learning that have led to stark racial disparities; and the third and final section focuses on solutions to our current state and how people, regardless of their race, can advocate for racial equity.
Urgent and needed, Systemic Racism in America is valuable reading for students and scholars in the social sciences, as well as informed readers with an interest in racism and racial inequality and a passion to end it.