Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times

John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has researched and written widely on the history and contemporary forms of race and ethnic relations in Britain, theories of race and racism, the politics of race, equal opportunity policies, multiculturalism and social policy, race and football, and racist movements and ideas. His most recent books are Race, Ethnicity and Social Theory (2022) and Race and Racism in Britain 4th Edition (2022). His most recent edited books are the Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms (2020) and Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader Third Edition (co-edited with Les Back) (2022). He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, composed of sixteen issues and published by Routledge. He is also Co-Editor of the book series Racism, Resistance and Social Change for Manchester University Press and General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.

Introduction: Race and ethnicity in pandemic times

John Solomos

1. Fever dreams: W. E. B. Du Bois and the racial trauma of COVID-19 and lynching

Freeden Blume Oeur

2. Face mask symbolism in anti-Asian hate crimes

Jingqiu Ren and Joe Feagin

3. Prejudice and pandemic in the promised land: how white Christian nationalism shapes Americans’ racist and xenophobic views of COVID-19

Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead and Joshua B. Grubbs

4. Race, police, and the pandemic: considering the role of race in public health policing

Adam Dunbar and Nicole E. Jones

5. Racism and nationalism during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Amanuel Elias, Jehonathan Ben, Fethi Mansouri and Yin Paradies

6. Compounded inequality: how the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program is failing Los Angeles Latino small businesses

Karina Santellano

7. Perceived COVID-19 health threat increases psychological distress among Black Americans

Ryon J. Cobb, Christy L. Erving and W. Carson Byrd

8. Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during COVID-19

Cary Wu, Yue Qian and Rima Wilkes

9. COVID-19, Black jurisdictions, and budget constraints: how fiscal footing shapes fighting the virus

Angela Simms

10. How COVID-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers

Maike Isaac and Jennifer Elrick

11. Rethinking refuge in the time of COVID-19

Nasar Meer, Emma Hill, Timothy Peace and Leslie Villegas

12. Has the Covid-19 pandemic undermined public support for a diverse society? Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

Lucas G. Drouhot, Sören Petermann, Karen Schönwälder and Steven Vertovec

13. Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis

Benjamin Opratko, Manuela Bojadžijev, Sanja M. Bojanić, Irena Fiket, Alexander Harder, Stefan Jonsson, Mirjana Nećak, Anders Neegard, Celina Ortega Soto, Gazela Pudar Draško, Birgit Sauer and Kristina Stojanović Čehajić

14. Race, immigration and health: the Hostile Environment and public health responses to Covid-19

Giorgia Donà