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Fresh Ideas, Sound Style and a Missed Step Forward - Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri, An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States (New York, NY, Russel Sage Foundation, 2022, 284 p.)

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Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri, An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States (New York, NY, Russel Sage Foundation, 2022, 284 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2026

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Giuseppe Sciortino*
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Universita degli Studi di Trento , Italy. Email: giuseppe.sciortino@unitn.it.
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , December 2025 , pp. 506 - 513
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Archives européennes de Sociologie/European Journal of Sociology

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1 See https://bioanth.org/about/aaba-statement-on-race-racism/#:~:text=While%20%E2%80%9Crace%E2%80%9D%20is%20not%20biology,by%20institutional%20and%20historical%20structures.

2 Martin Barker, 1981. The new racism: Conservatives and the ideology of the tribe (Seattle, Junction Books).

3 Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, 2000. “Beyond ‘Identity’,” Theory and Society, 29: 1–47.

4 Jean Bearman, 2024. “‘An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States’ by Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri,” Social Forces [https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae005]; Sarah Bufkin, 2023. “An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States,” Contemporary Sociology, 52: 562–563; Adrian Favell, 2024. “We need new words: on transatlantic translations of race and racialisation,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47: 1599-1607; Samantha M. Firsk, 2024. “Book Review: ‘An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States’ by Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri,” Sociological Inquiry, 95: 632–634; Mackda Ghebremariam Testafu, 2024. “Talking ‘around’ race in Italy: Morning and Maneri’s An Ugly Word,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47: 1629–1637; Gaia Giuliani, 2024. “The image of non-white people in the white mind: or, An Ugly Word as a book on the discursive reproduction of whiteness in the US and Italy,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47: 1608–1619; Camilla Hawthorne, 2024. “Toward a relational theorization of racisms,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47: 1620–1628; Karyn Lacy, 2024. “‘An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States’ by Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri,” American Journal of Sociology, 129: 1819–1821; Silvana Patriarca, 2023. “‘An ugly word. Rethinking race in Italy and the United States’ by Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 28: 5.

5 Richard T. Lapierre, 1935. “Attitudes vs Action,” Social Forces, 13: 230–237.

6 Giuseppe Sciortino, 2012. “Ethnicity, race, nationhood, foreignness, and many other things: Prolegomena to a cultural sociology of difference-based interactions,"” in Jeffrey Alexander, Ron Jacobs, Philip Smith, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology (New York, Oxford University Press: 365–389).

7 Marcello Maneri and Ann Morning, 2024. “Repositioning, not replacing, race: the case for concepts of descent-based difference,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47: 1641.

8 See, for example, Rogers Brubaker, 2016. Trans: Gender and race in an age of unsettled identities (Princeton, Princeton University Press).