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Howard Winant

Howard Winant
Sociology
UCSB
Emeritus Distinguished Professor

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).

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

Principal Investigator, University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Grant. 2010-2015. University of California Center for New Racial Studies, a MultiCampus Research Program Initiative. $1,720,801.

Publications

Winant, Howard. 2020. 
"Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash. "
Pan-Americanism and Anti-Racism. In Hooker, Juliet, ed. Lanham MD: Lexington Books. 
Paola Bacchetta, Sunaina Maira, and Howard Winant, editors. 2019. 
"Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, Decoloniality. "
New Racial Studies series book. New York: Routledge. 
Howard Winant. Forthcoming 2018. 
"Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality."
New York: Routledge, "A New Racial Studies Book."
Howard Winant. 2017.
"Foreword: New Racial Studies, Race, and Empire."
Paola Bacchetta & Sunaina Maira, eds. 
Howard Winant. Forthcoming 2017. 
"Charles Mills for and against Black Liberalism."
Ethnic and Racial Studies Review. 
Howard Winant. 2017. 
"World-Historical Du Bois."
Ethnic and Racial Studies Review,  Vol. 40, no. 3.
Winant, Howard. Forthcoming. 
"The Dark Matter: Race and Racism in the 21st-Century."
Critical Sociology.
Winant, Howard. Forthcoming. 
"Foreword to John S.W. Park and Shannon Gleeson, eds."
The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants,a New Racial Studies series book. New York: Routledge.
Winant, Howard and Michael Omi. 2013. 
"Resistance is futile?: A Response to Feagin and Elias."
Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 6.
Winant, Howard.
"The Dark Matter"
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 35, no. 4 (April 2012).
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