Matthew Windust Hughey is an American sociologist known for his work on race and racism. He is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...
, where he is also an adjunct faculty member in the Africana Studies Institute; American Studies Program; Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, & Policy; Sustainable Global Cities Initiative, and; graduate certificate program in Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, & Politics. His work has included studying whiteness, race and media, race and politics, racism and racial assumptions within genetic and genomic science, and racism and racial identity in white and black American fraternities and sororities.
He first came to national attention for his book ''White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race'', originally published in 2012.
Early life
Hughey was born in
Los Angeles
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, California. He was raised in
Asheville, North Carolina. He received his elementary and middle education through The Calvert School curriculum of Baltimore, Maryland before attending
Asheville High School. After briefly living in
Kingston, Jamaica, Hughey went on to pursue an undergrad degree at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand- ...
. While in college he became a member of the historically black Greek-letter organization,
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He graduated in 1999 as a sociology major and as class president. Hughey proceeded to earn a Master of Education degree in cultural studies from
Ohio University
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in 2002. He completed his doctorate in sociology at the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...
in 2009. While earning his PhD, Hughey was a research fellow for the Center for the Study of Local Knowledge in the
Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies and later worked as an instructor in the Department of Sociology, Program of Media Studies, and Program of African American Studies.
Career honors
Hughey is recognized as a sociologist of race and racism drawing from several intellectual traditions, notably cultural and critical theory. He has held invited, honorary, and competitive scholarly positions at several institutions globally: School of Law at the
University of Kent
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(Canterbury, England), Department of Sociology at
Trinity College-Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), the Institute of Advanced Study at the
University of Warwick
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(Coventry, United Kingdom), the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at
Columbia University
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(New York City, USA), and the postgraduate school at
University of the Free State
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(Bloemfontein, South Africa). He is currently affiliate faculty in Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at
Nelson Mandela University
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(Port Elizabeth, South Africa), the Knowledge, Power, and Politics Research Cluster at
University of Cambridge
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(Cambridge, England), and the Research Group on Gender, Identity, and Diversity at
University of Barcelona
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(Barcelona, Spain). Hughey's research, university teaching, and mentoring has also received numerous commendations:
* 2009. Distinguished Faculty Award,
Z Society
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, University of Virginia
* 2011. Prevention for A Safer Society Award (for ''12 Angry Men''),
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
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* 2013. Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award (for ''White Bound''),
Society for the Study of Social Problems
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) is an organization founded in 1951 in counterpoint to the American Sociological Association.
History
The Society was founded in 1951 by Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee. Profes ...
* 2013. Honorable Mention, Book Award (for ''White Bound''),
Association for Humanist Sociology
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* 2014. Distinguished Early Career Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities,
American Sociological Association
* 2014. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award (for ''White Bound''),
Society for the Study of Social Problems
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) is an organization founded in 1951 in counterpoint to the American Sociological Association.
History
The Society was founded in 1951 by Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee. Profes ...
(co-winner)
* 2016. Helena Znaniecki Lopata Mentoring Award,
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
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* 2016. Outstanding Publication Award (for ''The White Savior Film''),
Southwestern Sociological Association
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* 2017. Excellence in Research Award—Social Sciences,
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...
, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Selected bibliography
Books
* 2010. with Gregory S. Parks. ''12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today.'' The New Press (foreword by Lani Guinier).
* 2011. with Gregory S. Parks. ''Black Greek-Letter Organizations, 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities.'' University Press of Mississippi (foreword by Theda Skocpol).
* 2011. with Gregory S. Parks. ''The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?'' Oxford University Press (foreword by Charles J. Ogletree).
* 2012. ''White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race.'' Stanford University Press.
* 2013. ''Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders: Blood and Shadow.'' Taylor and Francis.
* 2014. ''The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption.'' Temple University Press
* 2014. with Gregory S. Parks. ''The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama.'' New York University Press.
* 2020. with Gregory S. Parks. "A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality." New York University Press.
* 2020. with Emma Gonzalez-Lesser. "Racialized Media: The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity." New York University Press.
Special Journal Issues
* 2012. with Gregory S. Parks. “Black Fraternal Organizations.” ''Journal of African American Studies'' 16(4):565-729.
* 2013. “Blood and Shadow: Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Associations.” ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 36(2):237-383.
* 2015. with David G. Embrick and Ashley Woody Doane. “The Mechanisms of Color-Blind Racism and the Racialized Social System.” ''American Behavioral Scientist'' 59(11):1347-1525.
* 2015. with W. Carson Byrd. “Race, Racial Inequality, and Biological Determinism in the Genetic and Genomic Era.” ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'' 661(1):8-258.
Articles
* 2008. “Virtual (Br)others and (Re)sisters: Authentic Black Fraternity and Sorority Identity on the Internet.” ''Journal of Contemporary Ethnography'' 37(5):528-560.
* 2008. “Brotherhood or Brothers in the ‘Hood? Debunking the ‘Educated Gang’ Thesis as Black Fraternity and Sorority Slander.” ''Race, Ethnicity, and Education'' 11(4):443-463.
* 2009. “Cinethetic Racism: White Redemption and Black Stereotypes in ‘Magical Negro’ Films.” ''Social Problems'' 56(3):543-577.
* 2010. “The White Savior Film and Reviewers’ Reception.” ''Symbolic Interaction'' 33(3):475-496.
* 2010. “A Paradox of Participation: Nonwhites in White Sororities and Fraternities.” ''Social Problems'' 57(4):653-679
* 2010. “The (Dis)similarities of White Racial Identities: The Conceptual Framework of ‘Hegemonic Whiteness.’” ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 33(8):1289-1309.
* 2011. “Backstage Discourse and the Reproduction of White Masculinities.” ''The Sociological Quarterly'' 52(1):132-153.
* 2011. “Re-membering Black Greeks: Racial Memory and Identity in ''Stomp the Yard''.” ''Critical Sociology'' 37(1):103-123.
* 2012. “Stigma Allure and White Antiracist Identity Management.” ''Social Psychology Quarterly'' 75(3):219-241.
* 2012. “Color Capital, White Debt, and the Paradox of Strong White Racial Identities.” ''Du Bois Review'': ''Social Science Research on Race'' 9(1):169-200.
* 2012. “Show Me Your Papers! Obama’s Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging.” ''Qualitative Sociology'' 35(2):163-181.
* 2012. “Black Guys and White Guise: The Discursive Construction of White Masculinity.” ''Journal of Contemporary Ethnography'' 41(1):96-125.
* 2013. with W. Carson Byrd. “The Souls of White Folk Beyond Formation and Structure: Bound to Identity.” ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 36(6):974-981.
* 2013. with Jessie Daniels. “Racist Comments at Online News Sites: A Methodological Dilemma for Discourse Analysis.” ''Media, Culture, and Society'' 35(3):332-347.
* 2013. with Joanna Hunter. “‘It’s Not Written On Their Skin Like It Is Ours.’ Greek-Letter Organizations in the Age of the Multicultural Imperative.” ''Ethnicities'' 13(5):519-543.
* 2013. with Gregory S. Parks and Shayne Jones. “Victimology, Personality, and Hazing: A Study of Black Greek-Letter Organizations.” ''North Carolina Central Law Review'' 36(1):16-40.
* 2013. with Gregory S. Parks and Shayne Jones. “Belief, Truth, and Pro-Social Organizational Deviance.”'' '' ''Howard Law Journal'' 56(2):399-445.
* 2014. with Gregory S. Parks, Rashawn Ray, and Shayne Jones. “Complicit in their Own Demise?” ''Law & Social Inquiry'' 39(4):938–972.
* 2014. with Gregory S. Parks. “Opposing Affirmative Action: The Social-Psychology of Political Ideology and Racial Attitudes.” ''Howard Law Journal'' 57(2):513-543.
* 2014. “Identity Isomorphism: Role Schemas and White Masculinity Formation.” ''Sociological Inquiry'' 84(2):264-293.
* 2014. “White Backlash in the ‘Post-Racial’ United States.” ''Ethnic and Racial Studies Review'' 37(5):721-730.
* 2014. “Survival of the Fastest? The Media Spectacle of Black Athleticism and Biological Determinism.” ''Contexts'' 13(1):56-8.
* 2015. “The Five I’s of Five-O: Racial Ideologies, Institutions, Interests, Identities, and Interactions of Police Violence.” '' Critical Sociology'' 41(6):857-871.
* 2015. with Gregory S. Parks and Shayne Jones. “Hazing as Crime: An Empirical Analysis of Criminological Antecedents." ''Law and Psychology Review'' 39.
* 2015. with Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and Jonathan Michael Cox. “White Boys Drink, Black Girls Yell?: A Racialized and Gendered Analysis of Violent Hazing and the Law.” ''The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice'' 18(1):93-158.
* 2015. with Adam Love. “Out of Bounds? Racial Discourse on College Basketball Message Boards.” ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 38(6):877-893.
* 2015. “We’ve Been Framed! A Focus on Identity and Interaction for a Better Vision of Racialized Social Movements.” ''Sociology of Race and Ethnicity'' 1(1):137-152.
* 2016. with Gregory S. Parks. “A Choice of Weapons: The X-Men and the Metaphor for Approaches to Racial Equality.” ''Indiana Law Journal'' 92(1):1-26.
* 2016. with Michael Rosino. “Who’s Invited to the (Political) Party: Race and Party Politics in the United States.” ''Ethnic and Racial Studies Review'' 39(3):325-332.
* 2017. with Wendy M. Laybourn and Devon R. Goss. “‘You're either one of us or you're not’: Racial Hierarchy and Non-Black Members of Black Greek-Letter Organizations.” ''Sociology of Race and Ethnicity'' 3(4):552-565.
* 2017. with Adam Love and Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino. “Excessive Celebration? The Racialization of Recruiting Commitments on College Football Internet Message Boards.” ''Sociology of Sport Journal'' 34(3):235-247.
* 2017. with Devon Goss and W. Carson Byrd. "Racial Authenticity and Familial Acceptance Among Transracial Adoptees: A Bothersome Bargain of Belonging." ''Symbolic Interaction'' 40(2):147-168.
* 2017. with Michael Rosino. “Speaking through Silence: Racial Discourse and Identity Construction in Mass Mediated Debates on the ‘War on Drugs’.” ''Social Currents'' 4(3):246-264.
* 2017. with Carol Ann Jackson. “The Dimensions of Racialization and the Inner City School.” ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'' 673(1):312-329.
References
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1976 births
Living people
University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
Ohio University alumni
University of Virginia alumni
University of Connecticut faculty
American sociologists