Stephen Small, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, African American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
658A Barrows Hall
(510) 643-7972
Office Hours: On Academic Leave until July 2008; email only contacts
small@berkeley.edu

Stephen Small has taught in the Department of African American Studies since 1994. He received his B.A. (honours) in Economics and Sociology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, his MS.C in Social Sciences, from the University of Bristol (both in the UK), and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1988-1992); in the Center for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick (1991); and in the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester (1992-1995). He was Study Center Director of the University of California's Education Abroad Program in France (Bordeaux and Toulouse), 2002-2004; and he was Director of UC, Berkeley's travel study program in Brazil (Salvador and Rio de Janeiro) from 2001-2005.

The bulk of his teaching is about African Americans in the post Civil Rights period, but he necessarily makes comparisons with earlier periods, and with other racial and ethnic groups in the contemporary period. He frequently finds it useful to analyze the structure and institutional circumstances of African Americans, by making systematic reference to the circumstances of Blacks elsewhere in the Diaspora – especially in the Caribbean, Europe and in South America (especially Brazil). His undergraduate courses include “Race, Class and Gender in African American Communities”, “Black Families in the USA”, “Globalization and Minority American Communities”, and “Theories of Race and Ethnicity”. He also teaches “Qualitative Research Methods for African American Studies”. Graduate courses include “Inter-Disciplinary Research Methods”, “Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations” and “Comparative International Race and Ethnic Relations”.

Stephen Small’s research is organized around the social scientific analysis of contemporary racial formations, and addresses links between historical structures and contemporary manifestations of racial formations in the USA and elsewhere in the Diaspora. The two disciplines upon which he draws most heavily are Sociology and History. He has three active programs of research. The first is on race and representations in public history and collective memory, in which he explores how colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow segregation are interpreted and explained in museums, memorials and monuments in the 21st century. He has undertaken research in the US South, France, Britain, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Brazil. He is currently (2007-2008) conducting the final stages of field research in the US South for a study of the distribution, role and treatment of the several hundred slave cabins that constitute part of the tourist infrastructure of the “New South” in the 21st century.

The second is on racial formations in Europe and the USA, which explores migration, institutional inequality and discrimination, community organization and community resistance, both within individual nations, as well as patterns across these nations. He is currently co-editing (with Darlene Clark Hine of Northwestern University and Trica Danielle Keaton of the University of Minnesota a forthcoming anthology on “Black Europe”, in which he also has a single-author chapter (on racial formations in Europe) and a co-authored chapter (on race formations in Britain).

The third area is race and race mixture (so-called 'miscegenation') in the United States and the Caribbean under slavery, and in the contemporary USA. He explores institutional experiences, material resources and ideological articulations of race mixture at different historical moments. He is in the final stages of writing a book manuscript entitled “The Matrix of Miscegenation: People of Mixed Origins under slavery in the USA and the Caribbean”, to be published by New York University Press.

• Representations of Slavery. Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums (with Jennifer L. Eichstedt). Smithsonian Institution Press,    Washington, DC and London, 2002.
  
  
• "Racisms and Racialized Hostility at the Start of the New Millenium", in David T. Goldberg and John Solomos (editors), The Blackwell Companion to Race Relations, Blackwell, 2002, pp. 259-281.
  
  
• Contextualizing the Black Presence in British Museums: Representations, Resources and Response,” in Eilean Hooper Greenhill,  (editor),    Museums and Multiculturalism in Britain, Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1997, pp. 50-66. 
  
  
• "Concepts and Terminology in Representations of the Atlantic Slave Trade," Museum Ethnographers Journal, No. 6, December, 1994, pp. 7-21.
  
  
• "Racist Ideologies", in Tony Tibbles, (editor), Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity, Merseyside Maritime Museum, September, 1994,    pp. 111-115.
  
  
• "The General Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade," in Tony Tibbles, (editor), Transatlantic Slavery:  Against Human Dignity, Merseyside    Maritime Museum, September, 1994, pp. 122-126. 
  
  
• "African Resistance to Enslavement," in Tony Tibbles, (editor),  Transatlantic Slavery:  Against Human Dignity, Merseyside Maritime Museum,    September, 1994, pp. 42-49, (co-authored with James Walvin, University of York).
  
  
• Race and Power. Global Racism in the Twenty-First Century, (co-written with Gargi Bhattacharyya and John Gabriel), Routledge , London and New York 2002.
  
  
• Racialised Barriers: The Black Experience in the United States and England Routledge, New York and London, 1994.
  
  
• “Race, Immigration and Politics in Britain. Changing Policy Agendas and Conceptual Paradigms, 1940s–2000s”, (with John Solomos)    International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2006, pp. 235-257
  
  
• “The Contours of Racialization: Structures, Representations and Resistance in the United States”, in Rodolfo D. Torres, Louis F. Miron and    Jonathan Xavier Inda., Race, Citizenship and Identity, Blackwell, Boston, 1999, pp.47-64.
  
  
• “Racism and Ethnicity, (with Robert Miles) in Steve Taylor (editor), Sociology: Issues and Debates, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1999, pp. 136-157.
  
  
• “Racism, Black People and the City in Britain,” in Charles Green, (editor) Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora, SUNY Press, New York, 1997, pp. 357-377.
  
  
• "Unravelling `Racialised Relations' in the USA and the United States of Europe," in John Wrench and John Solomos, Racism and Migration in Western Europe in the 1990s, Berg Publishers, Oxford, 1993, pp. 233-249.
  
  
• "Racialised Relations in Liverpool: A Contemporary Anomaly" New Community, Vol. 18, No. 1, July, 1991, pp. 511-537.
  
  
• "Attaining Racial Parity in the United States and England: We Got to Go Where the Greener Grass Grows!," Sage Race Relations Abstracts, Vol. 16, No. 3, May, 1991, pp. 3-55.
  
  
• Inside the Matrix of Miscegenation. Black People of Mixed Origins Under Slavery in the British Caribbean and the United States. New York University Press, New York, forthcoming, 2008.
  
  
• “Mustefinos are White By Law: Whites and People of Mixed Racial Origins in Historical and Comparative Perspective” in Paul Spickard and G    Reginald Daniel, Racial Thinking in the United States. Uncompleted independence, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2004, pp.    60-79.
  
  
• “Researching ‘Mixed-Race’ Experience Under Slavery. Concepts, Methods and Data,” in Martin Bulmer and John Solomos, (editors)    Researching Race and Racism, Routledge, London and New York, 2004, pp. 78-91.
  
  
• "Color, Culture and Class: Interrogating Interracial Marriage and People of Mixed Racial Descent in the USA", in David Parker and Miri Song    (editors), Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’, Pluto Press, London, 2001, pp. 117-133.
  
  
• "Racial Group Boundaries and Identities: People of `Mixed-Race' in Slavery across the Americas" Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 15, No. 3,    December, 1994, pp. 17-36.