“…Broadening in a different direction, Adia Wingfield () whose important scholarship concerns African American professionals, considers the implications of my agenda for the study of race in the United States. She correctly points out that the analysis of destigmatization processes produced by my colleagues and me (Clair, Daniel and Lamont ; Lamont ) needs to more fully factor in the broad resistance of whites and their vested interest in reproducing their racial domination.…”