Take a Knee Nation

Doug Hartmann is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (Chicago, 2003). He's also co-author of Migration, Incorporation, and Change in an Interconnected World (Routledge/Taylor Francis 2015, with Syed Ali) and of Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Pine Forge Press, 2007 with Stephen Cornell).

Hartmann is the past editor (with Chris Uggen) of Contexts Magazine; together, they publish The Society Pages, an open access social science hub. He is past president of the Midwest Sociological Society and co-Principal Investigator of the American Mosaic Project and the Kids' Involvement and Diversity Study (KIDS).

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society