Publications

IN PRESS

Mueller, Jennifer C. and DyAnna K. Washington. 2022. "Anticipating White Futures: The Ends-Based Orientation of White Thinking." Symbolic Interaction 45(1):3-26. SocArXiv version here.

Mueller, Jennifer C. 2020. "Racial Ideology or Racial Ignorance? An Alternative Theory of Racialized Cognition." Sociological Theory 38(2):142-169.

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.

Winner, 2019 Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Winner, 2019 Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
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.

Highlighted in Sociology: The Essentials (2019 Cengage, 10th edition), edited by M. Anderson and H. Taylor.
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

Inheriting the Gap: Wealth, Capital, and Intergenerational Race-Making in the U.S. Book-length manuscript in preparation; under contract with New York University Press.

The Racial Structure of Sociological Thought. Book-length edited volume in preparation (with Victor Ray); prospectus available upon request.

"Exposing Whiteness in Cultural Capital Research." Article-length manuscript in preparation for submission (with Bedelia Richards, Hugo Ceron Anaya, Susan Dumais, Patricia Sanchez-Connally, and Derron Wallace).

“White Imagineering and the Psychic Space of Whiteness.” Article-length manuscript in preparation for invited submission to special issue on White Space in American Behavioral Scientist (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).