Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race

The Du Bois Review (DBR) is a scholarly, multidisciplinary, and multicultural journal devoted to social science research and criticism about race. Launched in the spring of 2004, the journal provides a forum for discussion and increased understanding of race and society from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, communications, public policy, psychology, linguistics, and history.

Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP), each volume consists of a Spring and Fall issue. Following an editorial introduction that provides a commentary on the state and the study of race as well as an overview of the issue, the journal has three major sections. The first section, State of the Discipline, presents lead essays that synthetically critique broad areas of research regarding race. The second section, State of the Art, offers three to five major research articles. These articles are peer reviewed and rival the quality of those published in the best journals in the social sciences. The third section, State of the Discourse, comprises major review essays, each of which comments on two to four seminal books, controversies, and/or strands of research in the study of race.

Additionally, the DBR publishes an interview series, featuring conversations between Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and eminent scholars on broad areas of research. Interview subjects have included William Julius Wilson, Claude Steele, Nell Irvin Painter, Isabel Wilkerson, and Condoleezza Rice.

Now in its ninth year, the Du Bois Review has made a name for itself among sociologists, political scientists, historians, and other scholars whose work focuses upon race.

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DU BOIS REVIEW, 9.1 - SPRING 2012

Forthcoming

Featuring

Race and Affirming Opportunity in the Barack Obama Era
William Julius Wilson

Seven Myths of Race and the Young Child
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld

Special Section:

Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso, and Micro Dimensions

Michèle Lamont, Jessica S. Welburn, and Crystal Fleming, Guest Editors

Gérard Bouchard; Judith Taylor, Ron Levi, and Ronit Diovitzer; James R. Dunn; Jovonne Bickerstaff; Nicole Arlette Hirsch and Anthony Abraham Jack; Leanne Son Hing

Plus:

Matthew W. Hughey, Carlos Alamo, Tomas Almaguer, Dorothy Roberts, Geoff Ward

Volume 9
The first issue of Volume 9 (2012) includes a special selection of six essays entitled “Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso, and Micro Dimensions”, guest edited by DBR Editorial Board member Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) with Jessica S. Welburn (University of Michigan) and Crystal Fleming (Harvard University). The issue also includes an examination of “Seven Myths of Race and the Young Child” by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld. Issue 9.2 features a conversation between DBR Editor, Michael Dawson and William Julius Wilson on the future of Black politics. The issue also includes a special section entitled “Race and Immigration in the American City: New Perspectives on Twenty-First Century Intergroup Relations,” guest edited and introduced by Ramón Gutiérrez (University of Chicago).

Editors: Professors Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
Managing Editor: Sara Bruya
E-mail: dbreview@fas.harvard.edu