SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Banks, Patricia A. 2022. Black Culture Inc: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press (Culture and Economic Life Series).
*Winner of the 2023 American Sociological Association Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from The Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities
*Honorable Mention for the 2024 American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from The Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption)
*Winner of a Gold Medal Axiom Business Book Award
*Winner of a Bronze Medal Independent Publisher Book Award
*Press Mentions: New England Public Media, Yahoo! News, Lively-HOOD, The Special Report
Banks, Patricia A. 2021. Race, Ethnicity, and Consumption: A Sociological View. New York. Routledge.
Banks, Patricia A. 2019. Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums. New York. Routledge.
Press Mentions: The New York Times
Banks, Patricia A. 2010. Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class. New York: Routledge.
*Press Mentions: The Washington Post
*Reviews: Contemporary Sociology, International Review of African American Art
*Introductory Texts: Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms (Wiley 2020), Sociology Looks at the Arts (Routledge 2014)
Articles & Chapters
Banks, Patricia A. 2024. “Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption.” Annual Review of Sociology 50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-030222-013351.
Banks, Patricia A. 2023. “No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools.” Multicultural Perspectives, 25(1), 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2022.2162525.
Banks, Patricia A. Forthcoming. “Corporate Racial Citizenship: How Black Cultural Philanthropy Reinforces Capitalism.” In Museums as Ritual Sites: Civilizing Rituals Reconsidered, edited by Lieke Wijnia and James S. Bielo. New York, NY; Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge.
Banks, Patricia A. 2021. “Branding Indigeneity: Corporate Patronage of the Arts.” ICOFOM Study Series 49 (1): 56–66.
Banks, Patricia A. 2021. “High Culture, Black Culture: Strategic Assimilation and Cultural Steering in Museum Patronage." Journal of Consumer Culture 21 (3): 660-882.
Banks, Patricia A. 2019. “Cultural Justice and Collecting: Challenging the Underrecognition of African American Artists,” in Guillaume D. Johnson, Sonya A. Grier, Kevin Thomas, and Anthony Kwame Harrison (Ed.). Race in the Marketplace: Crossing Critical Boundaries. London: Palgrave.
Banks, Patricia A. 2018. “The Rise of Africa in the Contemporary Auction Market: Myth or Reality?” Poetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2018.05.004
Banks, Patricia A. 2018. “Money, Museums, and Memory: Cultural Patronage by Black Voluntary Associations." Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1540789
Banks, Patricia A. 2017. “Ethnicity, Class, and Trusteeship at African American and Mainstream Museums." Cultural Sociology 11 (1): 97-112.
Banks, Patricia A. 2015. “Identity and the Consumption of African American Art in Art Education." Art Education Journal 68(6): 16-21.
Banks, Patricia A. 2013. "Collecting Kara Walker." Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Exhibition Catalog. South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
Banks, Patricia A. 2012. “Cultural Socialization in Black Middle-Class Families.” Cultural Sociology 6 (1): 61-73.
Banks, Patricia A. 2010. “Black Cultural Advancement: Racial Identity and Participation in the Arts Among the Black Middle-Class.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 33 (2): 272-289.
Banks, Patricia A. 2010. “Conceptions of Art Ownership as a Form of Wealth Accumulation Among the Black Middle-Class.” Qualitative Sociology 33 (3): 333-348.
Banks, Patricia A. 2010. “Reflecting the Nation: Culturally Inclusive Arts Policy and Race and Ethnicity.” Journal of Race and Policy 6 (1): 95-105.
Reports
Usili, Una, Patricia Banks, Sarah King Bhetaria, and Stephanie Boddie. 2021. Everyday Donors of Color: Diverse Philanthropy During Times of Change. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/26496.
-Featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy
-Featured in The NonProfit Times
-Featured in Philanthropy News Digest
Articles (Business / Management)
Banks, Patricia A. 2022. “The Transparency Problem in Corporate Philanthropy.” MIT Sloan Management Review.
Articles (Law Review)
Banks, Patricia A. 2021. “Hair Rules: Race, Gender, and Stigmatization
in Schools.” The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social
Change 25 (2): 1-9.
Reviews, Essays, and Other Writing
Banks, Patricia A. 2022. “Corporate Philanthropy as Diversity Capital.” HistPhil Blog.
Banks, Patricia A. 2022. “Big Tobacco and Black Culture. The Promise and Perils of Caring Capitalism.” Stanford University Press Blog.
Banks, Patricia A. 2019. “Why Boards of Cultural Organizations Need to Diversify-and How to Do It.” Scholars Strategy Network.
Banks, Patricia A. 2019. “Black Artists and Elite Taste Culture” Contexts. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2018.05.004
Banks, Patricia A. 2019. Invited review of Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica S. Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog and Elisa Reis. Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ). Cultural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975519834263
Banks, Patricia A. 2017. “Collecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era." Black Past.
Banks, Patricia A. 2017. "Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary African Art Sale: Fluid Categories." C&. May 25.
Banks, Patricia A. 2016. Invited review of Susan E. Cahan. Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1232430.
Banks, Patricia A. 2014. "Art Ownership as Wealth Accumulation." Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. New York: Springer.
Banks, Patricia A. 2012. “Cultural Capital.” in J. Banks (ed) Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. London: Sage.
Banks, Patricia A. 2012. Invited review of Diane Grams. Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press). American Journal of Sociology 117 (4): 1284-1286.
Banks, Patricia A. 2011. Invited review of Daniel Widener. Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (2): 397-398.
Banks, Patricia A. 2010. Invited review of Kimberly Eison Simmons. Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic. (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press). Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(6): 1142.
Banks, Patricia A. 2008. Invited review of Karyn R. Lacy. Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle-Class. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). Society 45: 210-211.