Herman Gray

Herman Gray is emeritus Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and has published widely in the areas of Black cultural politics and media.^[1] Gray's books include: Watching Race: Television And The Struggle For Blackness (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation (University of California Press, 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 (Sage Publishing, 2015, co-edited with M. Alvarado, M. Buonanno and T. Miller). Gray's 2019 book Racism Postrace (Duke University Press) was co-edited with Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser. Gray is a member of the Board of Jurors for the Peabody Awards.^[2]