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Bruce Haynes

Associate Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center
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Email:  bdhaynes @ ucdavis.edu
Office: 2251 SS&H
 Phone: 754-7127
Office hours: W 3-4, or by apt.


Research Interests

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Urban Studies
  • Community Studies
  • Sociology of Knowledge

Selected Publications

  • Bruce Haynes. 2001. Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb. New Haven: Yale University Press.

  • 2008     "Place, Space and Race: Monopolistic Group Closure and the Dark Side of Social Capital," Networked Urbanism: Social capital in the City, edited by Talja Blokland and Mike     Savage, Ashgate Press 2008 (with Jesse Hernandez- UC Davis doctoral candidate)

  • 2008     “The Racial Order of Suburban Communities: Past, Present, and Future,” Blackwell-Sociology Compass Volume 2 Issue 4, Pages 1245 - 1251 Published Online: 9 Jul 2008 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120748801/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

             

 

I am a sociologist and an authority on race, ethnicity, and urban communities.  My recent publications include RED LINES, BLACK SPACES: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (Yale University Press 2001 Reissued in paperback 2006).  This work draws upon historical documents, unpublished census records, in-depth interviews, and participant observation.  Red Lines  shows that a combination of systematic factors led to the racialization of a typical suburban community, and that both "race" and "class" came to serve as alternative, sometimes competing strategies for the pursuit of local interests and community mobilization.  My research interests include suburbanization, the black middle class, race and racial formation, and urban community organization.

I am currently writing a book about Black Jews in America.  Recently, I wrote an article entitled “People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews,” which has been published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, (Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2009). Taken form my larger Black-Jewish project, this article traces nineteenth-century racial taxonomies and shows how they continue to shape the discourse surrounding the racial identity and supposed roots of Ethiopian immigrants in the State of Israel. 

I teach courses focused primarily on racial and ethnic communities in urban society.  I also teach Introduction to Sociology in addition to the required graduate course on Race.  I have a strong interest in mentoring and providing students the guidance and support to produce high quality research

Recent Awards

─ 2009 Chancellor's Award. - "Soaring to New Heights Special Citation for Diversity and Principles of Community"

─ 2009 Martin Luther King Outstanding Educator by the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund.-  Campus Ministry, City of Davis, and Office of Campus Community Relations