81st Annual Meeting Southern Sociological Society New Orleans Downtown Marriott at the Convention Center New Orleans, LA April 4-7, 2018 President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University Program Committee Chair David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut Executive Officer David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech Assistant Executive Officer J. Slade Lellock, Virginia Tech Local Arrangements Chair D’Lane R. Compton, University of New Orleans President’s Welcome Message Academics in the Trump Era.” Friday, we will have ASA’s President Elect, Mary Romero (Arizona State University), talking about “Violence, Nationalism, and Citizenship in TrumpAmerica.” And on Saturday, we will have a session on “Global Trump(ism): Brexit, Modi, and the Race to the Bottom” with Bandana Purkayastha (University of Connecticut) and Steve Garner (Birmingham City University). Besides the plenaries, we will have fifteen thematic sessions on topics ranging such as “After Charlottesville: Contexts Magazine on White Nationalism, Confederate Statues, and Trump,” “Studying the Environment in Trump's America: A Collaborative HBCU Perspective,” “Transgressive Sociology in the Age of Trump,” “Wrestling Professionally with Donald Trump,” “The Trump Administration and Global Politics,” and “Southern Sociology in the Era of Trump?” among others. We will also have an important Town Hall on “Sociology and Sociologists in TrumpAmerica: How Sociology is Dealing with the Challenges of this Special Moment” with Johnny Williams (Trinity College), Nancy Kidd (American Sociological Association), and Mary Romero (Arizona Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University State University). And, as usual, we will also have poster SSS President 2017-2018 sessions, mini-conferences, incubator sessions, Author Meet Critics sessions, and much, much more including a first for us: a yoga session -- “Yoga for a Cause: Welcome to New Orleans Downtown Cultivating Embodied Compassion” -- led by Marc Marriott at the Convention Center, Settembrino (Southeastern Louisiana University). st site of the 81 Annual Meeting of the Organizing an event of this magnitude could not happen Southern Sociological Society without the assistance of many people. First, I want to thank all the colleagues in the Program Welcome to New Orleans! The theme for this year’s Committee. Although all of them deserve praise for their meeting is Racial Theory, Analysis, and Politics in hard work, I must single out David G. Embrick (University TrumpAmerica. When I met in October 2016 with a of Connecticut), who chaired the Program Committee and few SSS colleagues to discuss this meeting, I had worked on it from 2016 until 2018. David, thanks for all the selected a theme in line with my work on color-blind hours you put in making sure this program became a racism. Then, on November 2016, Donald J. Trump reality. Second, I thank all the members of the SSS became our 45th President. His election seems to have Council for their work and support throughout this year. changed everything! His crudeness, authoritarianism, lack of knowledge, and childishness mixed with his Our superb Executive Officer, David Brunsma, and his immense entertainment value (the man is funny) have organizational right hand, Slade Lellock (both at Virginia disoriented all of us as we do not seem to know what is Tech), deserve special recognition for their enthusiasm up or down. Hence, I changed my theme as I thought and commitment to all SSS-related matters, including this sociologists desperately needed to investigate, analyze, meeting. Third, I thank D’Lane Compton (University of theorize, and even rant about this major development in New Orleans) who helped organize and coordinate local American history. arrangements including the always welcomed extracurricular activities and tours. Finally, I thank all the In plenaries, thematic sessions, Town Halls, and many members who are participating in this meeting. Without regular sessions, we will examine all kind of Trump- your participation as presenters, organizers, presiders, related subjects. On Wednesday, we will have a “mano a and attendees, this meeting could not occur. Thanks to mano” plenary on “Trump(ism), Border Walls, everyone and enjoy the meeting! Immigrations, and Bad Mexicans” with Rogelio Saenz (UTSA) and David Montejano (Berkeley). On Thursday, we will have a solo plenary with Michael Omi (Berkeley) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University on “What We Need to Think About in Rethinking Racial President Theory” and another “mano a mano” with Jessie Daniels Southern Sociological Society (Hunter College) and Jessica Ayo Alabi (Orange Coast College) on “Fighting Back: Resistance to Attacks on Table of Contents Past Presidents 1 2017-2018 Committees 2 Publication Teams 6 Anti-Harassment Policy 7 Award Recipients 8 Previous Award Winners 9 On-Site Accommodations, Mobile App, & Program Legend 10 Workshops 11 Mini-Conferences 17 Schedule at a Glance 18 Detailed Schedule Wednesday, April 4th 36 Thursday, April 5th 36 Friday, April 6th 76 Saturday, April 7th 113 Index of Participants 155 Departmental Members, Donors, & Sustaining Members 164 Sponsors 165 Floor Plans 180 Presidents of the Southern Sociological Society 1936 E.T. Krueger, Vanderbilt University 1977 Thomas R. Ford, University of Kentucky 1937 Wilson Gee, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1978 Gerhard E. Lenski, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1938 Rupert B. Vance, North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1979 Clifton D. Bryant, Virginia Tech 1939 E.W. Gregory, University of Alabama 1980 M. Elaine Burgess, University of North Carolina‐Greensboro 1940 Fred C. Frey, Louisiana State University 1981 Irving L. Webber, University of Alabama 1941 B.O. Williams, University of Georgia 1982 Charles B. Nam, Florida State University 1942 William E. Cole, University of Tennessee‐Knoxville 1983 Joseph H. Fichter, Loyola University‐New Orleans 1943 Katharine Jocher, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1984 George A. Hillery, Jr., Virginia Tech 1944 Katharine Jocher, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1986 Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia 1945 Howard Beers, University of Kentucky 1987 Abbott L. Ferriss, Emory University 1946 Charles S. Johnson, Fisk University 1988 Ida Harper Simpson, Duke University 1947 T. Lynn Smith, Louisiana State University 1989 John Shelton Reed, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1948 Coyle E. Moore, Florida State University 1990 Lewis M. Killian, University of West Florida 1949 Wayland J. Hayes, Vanderbilt University 1991 Joel Smith, Duke University 1950 Lee M. Brooks, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1992 Ronald L. Akers, University of Florida 1951 H.C. Brearley, George Peabody College for Teachers 1993 Shirley B. Laska, University of New Orleans 1952 Rudolf Heberle, Louisiana State University 1994 Walter R. Gove, Vanderbilt University 1953 Leland B. Tate, Virginia Tech 1995 Thomas C. Hood, University of Tennessee 1954 Guy B. Johnson, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1996 John Moland, Jr., Alabama State University 1955 Morton B. King, Jr., University of Mississippi 1997 Karl L. Alexander, Johns Hopkins University 1956 Irwin T. Sanders, University of Kentucky 1998 Rebecca G. Adams, University of North Carolina‐Greensboro 1957 Homer L. Hitt, Louisiana State University 1999 Lynn Smith‐Lovin, University of Arizona 1958 C. Horace Hamilton, North Carolina State University 2000 Maxine Atkinson, North Carolina State University 1959 Harold F. Kaufman, Mississippi State University 2001 Kenneth C. Land, Duke University 1960 E. William Noland, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 2002 Rachel A. Rosenfeld, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1961 Edgar T. Thompson, Duke University 2003 Patricia Yancey Martin, Florida State University 1962 Meyer F. Nimkoff, Florida State University 2004 Charles M. Tolbert II, Baylor University 1963 Alvin L. Bertrand, Louisiana State University 2005 Michael Hughes, Virginia Tech 1964 Selz C. Mayo, North Carolina State University 2006 Judith Blau, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 1965 Bryce F. Ryan, University of Miami 2007 Ronald W. Wimberley, North Carolina State University 1966 Joseph S. Himes, North Carolina College 2008 Larry W. Isaac, Vanderbilt University 1967 A. Lee Coleman, University of Kentucky 2009 Kathleen Slevin, William & Mary 1968 Ernest Q. Campbell, Vanderbilt University 2010 Angela O’Rand, Duke University 1969 John C. McKinney, Duke University 2011 Vincent Roscigno, The Ohio State University 1970 John T. Doby, Emory University 2012 Beth A. Rubin, University of North Carolina‐Charlotte 1971 Alvin Boskoff, Emory University 2013 Donald Tomaskovic‐Devey, UMass‐Amherst 1972 Richard L. Simpson, University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill 2014 Leslie Hossfeld, University of North Carolina‐Wilmington 1973 Charles M. Grigg, Florida State University 2015 David Maume, University of Cincinnati 1974 Fredrick L. Bates, University of Georgia 2016 Barbara Risman, University of Chicago-Illinois 1975 Charles U. Smith, Florida A&M University 2017 Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at San Antonio 1976 Alan C. Kerckhoff, Duke University 2018 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University 1 SSS 2017-2018 Committees Executive Committee Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Duke University President Shannon Davis George Mason University Vice President David l. Brunsma Virginia Tech Executive Officer Kylie Parrotta Delaware State University Recording Secretary Toni Calasanti Virginia Tech President-Elect Earl Wright II University of Cincinnati Vice President-Elect Christopher Ellison