Du Bois Review

The Du Bois Review (DBR) is a scholarly, multidisciplinary, and multicultural journal devoted to social science research and criticism about race

Now celebrating its 20th year in print, 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.

In the Fall 2023 issue (20.2)—“ Unpacking Race, Culture, Class, and Capitalism”— Gerald Jaynes investigates how distinct discrimination experiences in urban versus rural Black enclaves have structured distinct post-1960 child socializations and Black family formations, North and South; David Calnitsky and Michael Billeaux Martinez explore distinctions between structure-dependent and belief-dependent constructs, shedding much-needed light on the conceptualization of both race and class and the relation between them; Claire W. Herbert and Michael Brown elucidate the practices of erasure that are deployed throughout colonized communities and focus them on phenomena associated with urban decline and revitalization in U.S. Rust Belt cities, with a focus on Detroit; and Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret trace the development of the “racial capitalism” concept as it moved from South Africa to the United States and back again. Other themes in the issue include the racial origins of foster home care; racial and economic factors in redlining of Ohio neighborhoods; race differentials in the credit market experiences of small business owners; the predatory rhetorics of urban development; and the racialized and gendered experiences of Black men in STEM from elementary through graduate school.

The Spring 2023 issue (20.1), “Wounded Nation,” features Paul Starr on the history and continuing controversies around the category “people of color”. Also in the issue, Maria Abascal examines the ways in which the growth of the Latino population may be associated with Whites’ anti-Black attitudes; Chad Williams investigates how W. E. B. Du Bois’s personal connection to World War I shaped many of the themes in his book Black ReconstructionKevin DrakulichEric Rodriguez-Whitneyand Jesenia Robles explore the racial gap in views of the police, finding that more favorable views among Whites are shaped by racial resentment, among other factors; and Debanjan Roychoudhury studies two police killings of Black males in Jamaica, Queens to capture differences in racialized discourse between mainstream and Black newspapers. Other themes include the role of procedural justice in policing; the politics of racial abjection; Whites’ opinions on ethnoracial diversification in the U.S.; and multiculturalism in Hong Kong.

Published by Cambridge University Press, all Du Bois Review articles are available on Cambridge Core.

Editor: Lawrence D. Bobo
Senior Associate Editor: David Mickey-Pabello
Managing Editor: Sara Bruya
 

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