DEI Research and Engagement

DEI Research and Engagement

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are addressed across the research of the school. Sample scholarly and public outputs are presented below in alphabetical order of our faculty names within each category type. They cover topics such as race, gender, health disparities, migration, social justice, marginalized groups, alternative media, and much more.

Bettering NJ Together
With the people and communities of New Jersey, SC&I scholars focus on some of the most pressing issues of our time that impact the people of New Jersey in every area of our state, whether we live in urban, suburban, or rural communities.

Journal Articles

Kumar, D. (2018). See something, say something: Security rituals, affect, and the construction of US nationalism. Public Culture, 30, (1), 143-171. 

Kumar, D. (2017). Sifting and winnowing in the post-truth era. Foreword to M. Huff, A. L. Roth, & K. Bendib (Eds.), Censored 2018: Press Freedoms in a “Post-Truth” World (pp. 11-15). New York: Seven Stories Press.

Kumar, D. (2020). Terrorcraft: Empire and the Making of the Racialized terrorist threat, Race and Class, 62 (2), 34-60

Kumar, D. (2018). The right kind of “Islam”: News media representations of US-Saudi relations during the Cold War. Journalism Studies, 19 (8), 1079-1097.

Kumar, D. (2018). Trump, Islamophobia, and US politics. In L. Selfa (Ed.), US politics in an age of uncertainty: Essays on a new reality (pp. 157-170). Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Kumar, D. (forthcoming, 2020). “Islam” and the US Construction of Allies and Enemies on the Global Stage. In M. McAlister, M. Friedman and D. Engerman (Eds.) Cambridge History of America in the World, Vol 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Conference Proceedings

Media

White, K. (2018, Dec 16). Black activist and scholar: Discrimination is clear, here’s how police practices could be improved. Star Ledger.

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White, K., Short documentary on a Black woman’s struggle with alopecia, in collaboratuon with Dean John L. Jackson, Jr. at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

White, K., Blackness Isn’t Something That Can Be Acquired With a Little Bronzer: On Rachel Dolezal in Quartz (June 13, 2015)

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White, K. (2018, July 4). For hope in Trump’s America, I read Sojourner Truth. New York Times.

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White, K. “Future Women” (short feature film, 2015), Producer - Screened at Chicago Ethnographic Film Festival (October 2015, won Best Cinematography, Documentary); University of Chicago Arts + Public Life initiative; University of Chicago Arts, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Popular Culture

White, K. (2015, November 24). How to talk to your kids about race. Role Reboot.

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