Dr. David R Dietrich

  • Associate Professor at Sociology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2023

  • Dietrich, D. R. (2023). Reexamining Avatars of Whiteness: Changes in Racial Presentation of Video Game Player Characters. Sociation, 22(1), 21–31.

2020

  • Dietrich, D. R. (2020). Recruiting White “Victims”: White Supremacist Flyers on College Campuses. In Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality. Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington Press.
  • Johnson, C. J., & Dietrich, D. R. (2020). The McDonaldization of Long Term Care in the United States. In M. K. Shankardass (Ed.), Dementia Care: Issues, Responses and International Perspectives. Sage.

2015

  • Dietrich, D. R. (2015). Racially Charged Cookies and White Scholarships: Anti-Affirmative Action Protests on American College Campuses. Sociological Focus, 48(2), 105–125.

2014

  • Dietrich, D. R. (2014). Rebellious Conservatives: Social Movements in Defense of Privilege. Palgrave Macmillan.

2013

  • Dietrich, D. R. (2013). Avatars of Whiteness: Racial Expression in Video Game Characters. Sociological Inquiry, 83(1), 82–105.

2012

  • Dietrich, D. R. (2012). The Specter of Racism in the 2005-6 Immigration Debate: Preserving Racial Group Position. Critical Sociology, 38(5), 723–745.
  • Dietrich, D. R. (2012). Worlds of Whiteness: Race and Character Creation in Online Games. In D. Embrick, T. Wright, & A. Lukacs (Eds.), Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

2011

  • Bonilla-Silva, E., & Dietrich, D. R. (2011). The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism in Obamerica. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 634, 190–206.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E., & Dietrich, D. R. (2011). The New Racism: Racial Structure in the United States since the 1960’s. In R. Coates (Ed.), Covert Racism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2009

  • Fossett, M., & Dietrich, D. R. (2009). Effects of City Size and Form and Neighborhood Size and Shape in Agent-Based Models of Residential Segregation. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 36, 149–169.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E., & Dietrich, D. R. (2009). The Latin Americanization of U.S. Race Relations. In E. N. Glenn (Ed.), Shades of Difference. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2008

  • Dietrich, D. R., & Darity, Jr., W. A. (2008). Culture of Poverty. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (pp. 206–207). Detroit: Thomson Gale.
  • Dietrich, D. R., & Darity, Jr., W. A. (2008). Tracking in Schools. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (pp. 409–411). Detroit: Thomson Gale.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E., & Dietrich, D. R. (2008). The Latin Americanization of Racial Stratification in the U.S. In R. Hall (Ed.), Racism in the 21st Century: An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color. New York: Springer.