Robert Newby, Ph.D (emeritus)

email: newby1rg@cmich.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974
  • M.A., Wayne State University, 1970
  • B.M.E., Wichita University, 1961

Areas of Teaching expertise:

  • Racism and Inequality
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • Social Problems

Research Interests:

  • "The Race Concept from De-construction to 'Reconstruction'"
  • Sociology and Racism
  • Elian, Cuban Identity
  • Race

Selected Publications:

  • "White Nationalism, Black Citizenship and Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka" in Brown v. Board of Education: Critical Reflections on a Legacy, Bernice McNair Barnett and Aldon Morris (eds.). Forthcoming.
  • "Changing the Powers That Be: How the Left Can Stop Losing and Win," a critical review. Critical Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 1, April, 2004.
  • Newby, Robert G., Diane Newby and Karen Swift. "Encouraging and Recruiting Students of Color to Teach." Multicultural Education.
  • "Sociology and the Ascendency of White Supremacy: The failure of a Perspective for the Century 21." Sociological Focus.
  • Newby, Robert G., Diane Newby and Karen Swift. "Multicultural Education: Beyond the Rhetoric." Michigan Sociological Review, #10. (Fall 1996).