Resume

• 2001

  American Sociological Association

  English

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Sociology

  University at Albany

  SUNY

• Research

  Sociology

  Teaching

  Editing

  Social Media

  Writing

  Higher Education

  Grant Writing

  Analysis

  University Teaching

  Curriculum Development

  Public Speaking

  Community Outreach

  The New Urban Sociology 6th Edition

  Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text

  The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and accessible to students. Organized around an integrated paradigm

  the sociospatial perspective

  this text examines the role played by social factors such as race

  class

  gender

  lifestyle

  economics

  and culture on the development of metropolitan areas

  and integrates social

  ecological

  and political economy perspectives and research into this study. With its unique perspective

  concise history of urban life

  clear summary of urban social theory

  and attention to the impact of culture on urban development

  this book gives students a cohesive conceptual framework for understanding cities and urban life.\n\nThe sixth edition of The New Urban Sociology is a major overhaul and expansion of the previous editions. This edition is packed with new material including an expansion of the sociospatial approach to include the primary importance of racism in the formation of the urban landscape

  the spatial aspects of urban social problems

  including the issues surrounding urban public health and affordable housing

  and a brand new chapter on urban social movements. There is also new material on the importance of space for social groups

  including immigrants and the LGBTQ community

  as well as the gendered meanings embedded in social space.

  The New Urban Sociology 6th Edition

  Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism

  capitalism

  and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Hohle focuses on how the origins and expansion of neoliberalism depended on language or semiotic assemblage of white-private and black public. The language of neoliberalism explains how the white racial frame operates like a web of racial meanings that connect social groups with economic policy

  geography

  and police brutality. When America was racially segregated

  elites consented to political pressure to develop and fund white-public institutions. The black civil rights movement eliminated legal barriers that prevented racial integration. In response to black civic inclusion

  elite whites used a language of white-private/black-public to deregulate the Voting Rights Act and banking. They privatized neighborhoods

  schools

  and social welfare

  creating markets around poverty. They oversaw the mass incarceration and systemic police brutality against people of color. Citizenship was recast as a privilege instead of a right. Neoliberalism is the result of the latest elite white strategy to maintain political and economic power.

  Racism in the Neoliberal Era: A Meta History of Elite White Power (book)

  This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action

  created boundaries between national and local struggles for racial equality

  and prompted a white response to the civil rights movement that set the stage for the neoliberal turn in US policy. Randolph Hohle questions some of the most basic assumptions about the civil rights movement

  including the importance of non-violence

  and the movement’s legacy on contemporary black politics. Non-violence was the effect of the movement’s emphasis on racially non-threatening good black citizens that

  when contrasted to bad white responses of southern whites

  severed the relationship between whiteness and good citizenship. Although the civil rights movement secured new legislative gains and influenced all subsequent social movements

  pressure to be good black citizens and the subsequent marginalization of black authenticity have internally polarized and paralyzed contemporary black struggles. This book is the first systematic analysis of the civil rights movement that considers the importance of authenticity

  the body

  and ethics in political struggles. It bridges the gap between the study of race

  politics

  and social movement studies.

  Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement

  Why did the United States forsake its support for public works projects

  public schools

  public spaces

  and high corporate taxes for the neoliberal project that uses the state to benefit businesses at the expense of citizens? The short answer to this question is race. This book argues that the white response to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s

  '60s

  and early '70s inadvertently created the conditions for emergence of American neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the result of an unlikely alliance of an elite liberal business class and local segregationists that sought to preserve white privilege in the civil rights era. The white response drew from a language of neoliberalism

  as they turned inward to redefine what it meant to be a good white citizen. The language of neoliberalism depoliticized class tensions by getting whites to identify as white first

  and as part of a social class second. This book explores the four pillars of neoliberal policy

  austerity

  privatization

  deregulation

  and tax cuts

  and explains how race created the pretext for the activation of neoliberal policy. Neoliberalism is not about free markets. It is about controlling the state to protect elite white economic privileges.

  Race and the Origins of American Neoliberalism (book)

  Hohle

  D'Youville College

  State University of New York at Fredonia

  Fredonia

  State University of New York at Fredonia

  Fredonia

  New York

  Associate Professor Sociology

  D'Youville College