DR. REGINALD A. BYRON
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What's he reading?

Because of my varied areas of research and teaching, I enjoy reading widely. Although it's difficult to choose which readings are my favorite (I view them all as pieces of the larger puzzle), below are a dozen articles/books that have recently left an impression on me because of their theoretical contributions, robust analyses, or cutting-edge perspectives (listed in alphabetical order).

  • Andersen, Margaret L. and Maxine Baca Zinn. 2024. "Moving from the Margins: Life Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
  • Carlson, Jennifer. 2020. "Police Warriors and Police Guardians: Race, Masculinity, and the Construction of Gun Violence." Social Problems 67(3): 399-417. 
  • Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda and Casandra D. Salgado. 2022. "Shifting Racial Schemas: From Post-racial to New "Old-fashioned" Racism." Sociological Inquiry  92(2): 341-363.
  • Francis, June N.P. and Joshua Tecumseh F. Robertson. 2021. "White spaces: how marketing actors (re)produce marketplace inequities for Black consumers." Journal of Marketing Management 37(1-2): 84-116.
  • Friedman, Joseph, George Karandinos. Laurie Kain Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, Nicholas Graetz, and Phillipe Bourgois. 2019. " Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia's Puerto Rican inner-city." PLoS One 14(11): 1-25.
  • Hirst, Chris. 2020. No Bullsh*t Leadership: Why the World Needs More Everyday Leaders and Why That Leader is You London, England: Profile Books.
  • MacGillis, Alec. 2021. "What Philadelphia Reveals About America's Homicide Surge." ProPublica (online)
  • Mayorga-Gallo, Sarah. 2019. "The White-Centering Logic of Diversity Ideology." American Behavioral Scientist 63(13): 1789-1809.
  • Mohamed, Amir. 2025. "Blaming the Dead: Ethical Experimentation with Violence and Victimhood in Urban Guatemala." Social Analysis 69(2): 69-85.
  • Rabelo, Veronica Caridad, Oscar Jerome Stewart, William C. Snowden, and Sarah Fathallah. 2024. "When safety for you means danger for me: the racial politics of carceral public safety discourse." Frontiers in Psychology 1-14. 
  • Ray, Victor. 2022. On Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters & Why You Should Care New York, NY: Random House.
  • Schroedel, Jean Reith and Roger Chin. 2020. "Whose Lives Matter: The Media's Failure to Cover Police Use of Force Against Native Americans." Race and Justice 10(2): 150-175.
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