Sean Elias studies racial group divisions and epistemological color lines in social science, black cultural-intellectual traditions, particularly black social thought and Louisiana Creole culture, and perspectives and practices of elites. He has taught at Prairie View A&M University (an HBCU) and Southern Methodist University (an HWCU) and now teaches at Colorado Mountain College while completing fieldwork on the Aspen elite.

Joe Feagin, Ella McFadden Professor at Texas A&M University, has done decades of research on racism and sexism issues. Among his major books are Systemic Racism (Routledge 2006); The White Racial Frame (2nd edn; Routledge 2013); Racist America (3rd edn; Routledge 2014); Latinos Facing Racism (Paradigm 2014, with José Cobas); and The Myth of the Model Minority (2nd edn., Paradigm, 2015, with Rosalind Chou). He is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and was the 1999-2000 President of the American Sociological Association.

Introduction

Post-Racial America and Social Science: Reality or Myth?

PART I-Social Sciences' Historic Misframing of "Race"

1) The Twin Births of Social Science and Race Theory

2) Race Theory and the Rise of Mainstream Social Science

PART II-Contemporary Mainstream Social Science and Race Theory

3) Changes in the Field of Race Studies

4) Subverting Racial Analysis: Emphasizing Practice, Groupness, Boundaries, and Reflexivity

5) Class, Culture, Ethnicity, and Nationality, Anything but "Race"

6) Race and the Genome: Biosocial Theories of Race

7) Assimilation Theory's Dominion in Social Science

8) A Systemic Racism Critique of Racial Formation Theory

PART III-Systemic Racism Theory-Background and Overview

9) Critical Black Theory: Foundations of Systemic Racism Theory

10) Systemic Racism Theory

Conclusion: Persisting Systemic Racism, The Empirical Reality