Publications

IN PRESS

Mueller, Jennifer C. 2018. "Advancing a Sociology of Ignorance in the Study of Racism and Racial Non-Knowing." Sociology Compass 12(8). DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12600.

Mueller, Jennifer C., Apryl Williams, and Danielle Dirks. 2018. "Racism and Popular Culture: Representation, Resistance, and White Racial Fantasies." Pgs. 69-89 in Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, 10th anniversary ed., edited by J. Feagin and P. Batur. New York: Springer.

Mueller, Jennifer C. 2017. "Producing Colorblindness: Everyday Mechanisms of White Ignorance." Social Problems 64(2):219-238.

Profiled in the May 2017 installment of "The Authors' Attic" vodcast.

Bracey, Glenn, Christopher Chambers, Kristen Lavelle, and Jennifer C. Mueller.* 2017. "The White Racial Frame: A Roundtable Discussion." Pgs. 41-75 in Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real, edited by R. Thompson-Miller and K. Ducey. New York: Palgrave. (*authorship shared equally among contributors.)

Mueller, Jennifer C. and Rula Issa. 2016. "Consuming Black Pain: Reading Racial Ideology in Cultural Appetite for 12 Years a Slave." Pp. 131-147 in Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media, edited by J. Smith and B. Thakore. New York: Routledge.

Mueller, Jennifer C. 2015. "The Black Power Movement and American Social Work (by Joyce M. Bell)." American Journal of Sociology 121(2):640-643.

Mueller, Jennifer C. 2015. "The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution (by Leslie McCall)." Contemporary Sociology 44(4):537-539.

Mueller, Jennifer C. and Joe Feagin. 2014. “Pulling Back the ‘Post-Racial’ Curtain: Critical Pedagogical Lessons from Both Sides of the Desk.” Pgs. 11-24 in Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America: Adding Context to Colorblindness, edited by K. Haltinner. New York: Springer.

Mueller, Jennifer C. 2013. “Tracing Family, Teaching Race: Critical Race Pedagogy in the Millennial Sociology Classroom.” Teaching Sociology 41: 172-187.

Feagin, Joe, Sean Elias, and Jennifer Mueller. 2009. “Social Justice and Critical Public Sociology.” Pp. 71-88 in Handbook of Public Sociology: Toward a Holistic Sociology, edited by V. Jeffries. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Mueller, Jennifer C., Danielle Dirks, and Leslie Houts Picca. 2007. “Unmasking Racism: Halloween Costuming and Engagement of the Racial Other.” Qualitative Sociology 30: 315-335.

Reprinted in Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations (2016 Sage), edited by Z. Valdez.
Reprinted in Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (2011 Wadsworth, 3rd edition), edited by E. Higginbothom and M. Anderson.
Highlighted with abridged reprint in How It’s Done: An Invitation to Social Research (2011 Wadsworth, 4th edition), E. S. Adler and R. Clark.
Profiled in “Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research,” Contexts 7 (2):8 (Spring 2008).

Dirks, Danielle and Jennifer C. Mueller. 2007. “Racism and Popular Culture.” Pp. 115-129 in Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, edited by H. Vera and J. Feagin. New York: Springer.

Reprinted in Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity (2018 McGraw-Hill, 6th edition), edited by C. Gallagher.
Reprinted in Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (2015 Wadsworth, 4th edition), edited by E. Higginbothom and M. Anderson
Reprinted in Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity (2012 McGraw-Hill, 5th edition), edited by C. Gallagher.

IN PROGRESS

"Racial Ideology or Racial Ignorance? An Alternative Theory of Racialized Cognition." Working paper available at SocArXiv.

Inheriting the Gap: Wealth, Capital, and Intergenerational Race-Making in the U.S. Book-length manuscript in preparation.

"More than Words: Colorblind Racism and the 'Discourse' of White Praxis." Article-length manuscript in preparation for submission.

“Re-presentations of Black History in White Space.” Article-length manuscript in preparation for invited submission to special issue on Rethinking White Spaces and White Supremacy in Social Science Research (with Phia Salter).

Mind, Body, and Soul: Racial Diversity Reconsidered. Book-length manuscript; prospectus in development for Bristol University Press Critical Diversity Series (with Glenn Bracey; outline available upon request).

"Race, Wealth, and the State of White Supremacy." Article-length manuscript in preparation (with Glenn Bracey).

"Rescuing Whites as an Everyday Mechanism of White Ignorance." Article-length manuscript in preparation (with Glenn Bracey).