Howard Winant

Howard Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Black Studies and Chicana/o Studies departments. He received his Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980. 

Winant is the founding director of the UC Center for New Racial Studies (UCCNRS), a University of California MultiCampus Research Program Initiative. He is the author of THE NEW POLITICS OF RACE: GLOBALISM, DIFFERENCE, JUSTICE (University of Minnesota Press 2004); THE WORLD IS A GHETTO: RACE AND DEMOCRACY SINCE WORLD WAR II (Basic Books 2001); RACIAL CONDITIONS: POLITICS, THEORY, COMPARISONS (University of Minnesota Press 1994); RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES: FROM THE 1960S TO THE 1990S (co-authored with Michael Omi - Routledge 1986 and 1994); and STALEMATE: POLITICAL ECONOMIC ORIGINS OF SUPPLY-SIDE POLICY (Praeger 1988).