Sociology & Criminology Faculty

Courses

CSJ 200:  Introduction to Social Justice

SOCL 260: Race & Ethnic Relations

SOCL 315:  Public Problem Solving

SOCL 250:  Systems of Social Inequality

My work examines how the laundering and mainstreaming of reactionary racist rhetoric in the media, and especially social media, influences public understanding about race and racism. My work is informed by the traditions of Black and Public Sociology, and I focus on using my research findings to inform my public education and scholar activism. I am also the leading expert on the life and work of the little-known, Harlem Renaissance-era, Atlanta University trained sociologist, Augustus Granville Dill. I draw on the tradition of his work to inform my practice of Black Public Sociology (Brooks and Wright 2021).

Selected Publications:
Brooks, Marcus A. 2022. “Learning from Augustus Granville Dill: What We Gain When Our Intellectual Ancestors Get their Intellectual Reparations.” In Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins, edited by C. Herbison, D. Dickens, J. Jiménez, and K. Tillman.

Brooks, Marcus A. and Earl Wright, II. 2021. “Augustus Granville Dill: A Case Study in the Conceptualization of a Black Public Sociology.” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity 7(3): 318-332.

Brooks, Marcus A. 2020. “"It's Okay to be White": Laundering White Supremacy through a Colorblind Victimized White Race-Consciousness Raising Campaign.” Sociological Spectrum 40(6):400-416.

Quoted by Sutton, Will in “Dilbert creator Scott Adams is in a White 'hate group'”. The Advocate March 03, 2023.

Ph.D. The University of Cincinnati, 2022

M.A. Middle Tennessee State University, 2015

B.S. Austin Peay State University, 2013