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Sociology of Diversity

Series Editor: David G. Embrick, Associate Professor in Sociology and Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut; and Director of Research on Resilient Cities, Racism and Equity at UConn’s Hartford campus.

This fast-growing series brings together the highest quality sociological and interdisciplinary research that critically engages with the broad topic of diversity and inclusion, including, but not limited to topics that cover racism, ethnic oppression, gender, sexuality(ies), class and immigration.

Diversity and inclusion have become ubiquitous terms. While globally we have seen a rise in political and social attacks on diversity, mostly through an anti-woke/anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement, many scholars have criticized the use of diversity and inclusion in non-critical ways. Thus, this international series is specific in scope to empirical and theoretical research that engages in a critical examination and analysis of diversity, inclusion and equity. As such, it is particularly interested in sociological and interdisciplinary scholarship that offers new empirical, theoretical, or epistemological insights that interrogate how the language of diversity has been used to hide, minimize, or deflect real issues of inequality in society.

Download the proposal guidelines.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

  • Affirmative Action and other DEI+ Policies and Practices
  • Anti-Woke; Anti-CRT movements
  • Cultural and Structural Incompetence
  • Culture
  • Diversity and Emotions
  • Diversity and Religion
  • Diversity and the Law
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • Diversity Ideology(ies)
  • Diversity in Higher Education
  • Diversity in the Military
  • Diversity in the Workplace
  • Diversity Language and Rhetoric
  • Diversity of Sexual Orientation
  • Diversity Workshops and/or Training
  • Food
  • Gender Diversity
  • Immigration
  • Institutional and Organizational Diversity
  • Media and Media Representations
  • Multiculturalism
  • Politics and the State
  • Racism and Ethnic Oppressions
  • Social Movements

Call for proposals

If you would like to submit a proposal, or to discuss ideas, then please contact series editor David G. Embrick: david.embrick@uconn.edu

You can find out more about writing for Bristol University Press on our Information for authors page. 

International Editorial Advisory Board

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Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth

This book explores Critical Race Theory, tracing its origins, problems and potential, and critiquing liberal and conservative perspectives. Centring marginalized voices, it emphasizes their role as change agents rejected by both sides. A unique resource for understanding and dismantling systemic racism.

Bristol Uni Press

The Gentrification of Queer Activism

Diversity Politics and the Promise of Inclusion in London

Tracing the extensive LGBTQ+ venue closures in the 2010s, this book explores the queer politics of LGBTQ+ inclusion in London. Drawing on rich ethnographic work with activists, professionals and businesses, it reveals how gender and sexuality come to be reconfigured in the production and consumption of LGBTQ+ inclusion and its promises.

Bristol Uni Press

Racial Diversity in Contemporary France

The Case of Colorblindness

This unique work reveals how the denial of race as a social category maintains and reproduces systematic racism in contemporary France. Léonard offers an in-depth analysis of contentious issues in society, revealing how color-blind racism is at the centre of social inequality in France.

Bristol Uni Press

Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US

How We Failed Children of Color

Drawing on original data, this book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth. It calls for a need to understand racial inequality in the justice system from a structural perspective rather than simply at the level of individual bias.

Bristol Uni Press

Southern Craft Food Diversity

Challenging the Myth of a US Food Revival

Using oral histories, this book highlights the voices, experiences and histories of marginalized groups from diverse communities who are the backbone of the artisanal food movement in the US.

Bristol Uni Press

Beer and Racism

How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It

Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.

Bristol Uni Press

The Death of Affirmative Action?

Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions

Can affirmative action in US college admissions survive mounting threats? This judicious review, part of the Sociology of Diversity series, considers the question using up-to-date sociological, policy and legal perspectives to explain both sides of the fierce debate over affirmative action in the context of prominent Supreme Court cases.

Bristol Uni Press