Jennifer Patrice Sims, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville sits down with Dan Morrison to discuss her 2024 Polity Press book The Fallacies of Racism: Understanding How Common Perceptions Uphold White Supremacy. The book addresses twelve commonly-held, but faulty, ideas about race and racism. We discuss the book, several examples, and how these fallacies function to reinforce white racial dominance in the United States. Her next book, The Inequality of Racial Perception, will appear in 2025 with Oxford University Press. Dr. Sims studies racial construction, perception, and identity in the US and UK. Sims is co-author of the award-winning book Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Futurewith Chinelo L. Njaka (2019, Emerald), and editor of The Sociology of Harry Potter: 22 Enchanting Essays on the Wizarding World (2012, Zossima Press).
