David Wellman

David Wellman is currently Professor of Community Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is Director of Graduate Studies in Social Documentation. He is also Research Sociologist at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, University of California Press, 2003. He is also author of Portraits of White Racism, second edition (1993) and The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront (1995). He is contributing author of The Diversity Project, published by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His relevant monographs include: Co-author, "The Theory and Practice of Corporate Diversity: A Comprehensive Survey of Available Evidence," Ford Foundation Report, 2000. Co-author, "Color Blind: The Impact of the California Civil Rights Initiative on Health Care Resources and Delivery." Report for the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy, 1996. Among his most recent articles are: "From Evil to Illness: Medicalizing Racism, Journal of American Orthopsychiatry, (2000), "Constructing Common Ground: Borderland Experiences in America," Cultural Diversity and Mental Health (1997), and "Minstrel Shows, Affirmative Action Talk, and Angry White Men: Marking Racial Otherness in the 1990s," in Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, Ruth Frankenberg, ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 1997). In 1997-98, he received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. He has testified as an expert witness in Federal District Court and California Superior Court on white racism in two successful anti-discrimination lawsuits.

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