Jordanna Matlon wins ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
SIS Professor Jordanna Matlon has won the prestigious Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the 猫咪社区app Sociological Association for her book聽A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism.聽
According to the ASA award description,聽A Man among Other Men "is a work of deep insight and titanic importance from a fantastic scholar. Matlon has delivered a text that speaks to several of our discipline鈥檚 largest and most central subfields, including race, gender, and social class, as well as labor, global and transnational sociology, postcolonialism, and globalization...Throughout the book Matlon carefully explains theories and ideologies of race and gender without ever losing sight of the real places and actual material conditions that people experience in their everyday lives. Matlon鈥檚 work is an exemplar of sociology鈥檚 promise to explain the relationship between social structures and social life."
Congratulations, Jordanna!
Read the full description of the award and the book's accolades on the ASA website .