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RACE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE ORGANIZING PROCESS

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 60

RACE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE ORGANIZING PROCESS

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MELISSA E. WOOTEN

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

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About the Authors

Melissa V. Abad, PhD, is a Research Sociologist at the Stanford VMWare Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, USA. Her research examines the occupational trajectories of women of color in both the nonprofit and technology industries and bridges the fields of organizational theory and intersectionality.

Reginald A. Byron is Associate Professor of Sociology at Southwestern University, USA. His current research interests include how race and gender stratification manifest in employment, educational, and criminological contexts. His work has appeared in Work and Occupations, The Journal of Higher Education, and Gender & Society.

Lucius Couloute is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University, USA. His research interests involve race and racism, employment, organizations, and systems of criminalization. His published work has examined how organizations produce and experience racial inequality, and his current work examines prisoner reentry and cultural ideas related to social mobility.

James R. Jones is Assistant Professor at Rutgers University – Newark, USA. He received his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in 2017. His research investigates the role of racism in organizing American democratic institutions and the mechanisms that (re)produce inequality within them.

Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Labor Center Director at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work (2015) and Party and Society (2013), and coeditor of Building Blocs (2015). His research focuses on the intersection of race, labor, and party politics.

Danielle Purifoy, JD, PhD is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Her research examines political institutions driving environmental inequality in the US South. Her research is published in the Yale Journal of Health Law and Policy and Ethics.

Victor Ray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. His work examines organizational race and gender discrimination and has been published in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Contexts.

Fabio Rojas is Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is the author of two books on social movements and organizations: From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, and Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11. His work has been published in journals, including the American Journal of Sociology and the Academy of Management Journal.

Vincent J. Roscigno is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology at Ohio State University, USA. His work has focused on workplace dignity and inequality, culture, social movements, and educational mobility. His current projects center on discrimination, workplace social relations, and educational barriers for first-generation college students.

Christi M. Smith, PhD, is Assistant Dean and Senior Scholar at the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St Louis. She is the author of Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), and has published in the DuBois Review and Law & Society, among others.

Kyla Walters is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, USA. Her research focuses on education politics, race, gender, labor, and social movements. She has published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Work and Occupations, and Sexualization, Media, & Society.

Melissa E. Wooten is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her research lies at the intersections of organizations, education, and race. She is the author of In the Face of Inequality: How Black Colleges Adapt (SUNY Press, 2015).