Angie Beeman

Associate Professor of Sociology, Baruch College

Angie Beeman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baruch College. She is best known for her work on racism theory and interracial social movements. Dr. Beeman has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her past work examined the strategic use of color-blind ideology in an interracial labor and community organization. Dr. Beeman developed the concept of emotional segregation, which she defined as an institutionalized empathetic barrier between European Americans and people of color. Her article, “Emotional Segregation: A Content Analysis of Institutional Racism in US Films, 1980-2001” won an award from the American Sociological Association and was subsequently published in the journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has appeared on CSPAN’s Washington Journal as an expert on the state of race relations and political change. Dr. Beeman also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal, Critical Sociology.  She has won five awards recognizing her scholarship and teaching. Currently, she is writing a book entitled, “Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression.” Dr. Beeman has published articles related to this project for The Harvard Business Review, Racism Review, and Counterpunch Magazine.

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More of Angie’s work:

• Teaching to Convince, Teaching to Empower: Reflections on Student Resistance and Defeat at Predominantly White versus Racially Diverse Campuses

• Conversations about Racism (Galveston Daily News)

• Royall Must Fall: Old and New Battles on the Memory of Slavery in New England

• Whiteness as Property: Predatory Lending and the Reproduction of Racialized Inequality

• Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty