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Sociology presents Professor Nancy DiTomaso and her talk on Race and Politics in the U.S.: The American Non-dilemma

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October 23, 2015
8:30AM - 9:30AM
248 Townshend Hall

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Add to Calendar 2015-10-23 08:30:00 2015-10-23 09:30:00 Sociology presents Professor Nancy DiTomaso and her talk on Race and Politics in the U.S.: The American Non-dilemma Time: 12:30 p.m. Event Host: Sociology Department Short Description: Ohio State's Sociology Department presents Professor Nancy DiTomaso and her talk "Race and Politics in the U.S.: The American Non-dilemma." Almost all academic literature across disciplines and most of the news media explain racial inequality as the result of the discrimination and racism of whites toward nonwhites. In contrast, in this presentation, Professor Nancy DiTomaso will discuss "Race and Politics in the U.S.: The American Non-dilemma" and argue that it is the favoritism or advantages that whites provide to other whites that is the primary mechanism by which racial inequality is reproduced in the post-civil rights period in the U.S. She will briefly provide evidence for my argument with data at the individual, organizational and societal levels. She will also discuss how the landscape of post-civil rights politics is affected especially in presidential elections by the tensions between race-based versus class-based politics in the competition between the Democratic and Republican parties, using insights from the interviews for my study of The American Non-dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism.Nancy DiTomaso is Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick.  Her research addresses issues of diversity, culture and inequality, as well as the management of knowledge-based organizations and the management of scientists and engineers. Her 2013 book, The American Non-dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism (NY: Russell Sage) won the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems  (75 books nominated) and the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Distinguished Book Award (17 books nominated) from the American Sociological Association.Details of this event can be found at the Sociology Department. 248 Townshend Hall College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Event Host: Sociology Department
Short Description: Ohio State's Sociology Department presents Professor Nancy DiTomaso and her talk "Race and Politics in the U.S.: The American Non-dilemma."


Almost all academic literature across disciplines and most of the news media explain racial inequality as the result of the discrimination and racism of whites toward nonwhites. In contrast, in this presentation, Professor Nancy DiTomaso will discuss "Race and Politics in the U.S.: The American Non-dilemma" and argue that it is the favoritism or advantages that whites provide to other whites that is the primary mechanism by which racial inequality is reproduced in the post-civil rights period in the U.S. She will briefly provide evidence for my argument with data at the individual, organizational and societal levels. She will also discuss how the landscape of post-civil rights politics is affected especially in presidential elections by the tensions between race-based versus class-based politics in the competition between the Democratic and Republican parties, using insights from the interviews for my study of The American Non-dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism.

Nancy DiTomaso is Distinguished Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick.  Her research addresses issues of diversity, culture and inequality, as well as the management of knowledge-based organizations and the management of scientists and engineers. Her 2013 book, The American Non-dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism (NY: Russell Sage) won the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems  (75 books nominated) and the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Distinguished Book Award (17 books nominated) from the American Sociological Association.

Details of this event can be found at the Sociology Department.

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