Black Writers Lecture Series "Race as a form of Symbolic Capital"

Amanda Lewis Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Univ of Illinois, Chicago

Amanda E. Lewis is an assistant professor in the Departments of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on how race shapes educational opportunities from kindergarten through graduate school and on how our ideas about race get negotiated in everyday life. She also has written about racial identity, specifically about whiteness and the role of white people as racial actors in American society. Rutgers University Press recently published her book on how race shapes everyday life in elementary schools, Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color-line in Classrooms and Communities.