Herman Gray is emeritus Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and has published widely in the areas of Black cultural politics and media. Gray's books include: ''Watching Race: Television And The Struggle For Blackness'' (

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, 2004) and ''Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation'' (

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, 2005), as well as the collections ''Towards a Sociology of the Trace'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2010, co-edited with Macarena Gomez Barriś), and ''The Sage Handbook of Television Studies'' (

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, 2015, co-edited with M. Alvarado, M. Buonanno and T. Miller). Gray's 2019 book ''Racism Postrace'' (

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) was co-edited with Roopali Mukherjee and

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. Gray is a member of the Board of Jurors for the Peabody Awards.

Education

Gray attended graduate school at UC Santa Cruz studying under Sociology Professor Hardy T. Frye.

Appearances

Gray appears in

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's 1991 documentary film '' Color Adjustment''.

Views

Gray has stated that nostalgia can be used to induce an uncritical engagement with history, as "a way of not having to confront ... historical realities," in particular as with the "

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" slogan.

References

External links

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