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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. . New York: Routledge.


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. 2010. Qualitative Sociology 33 (3): 333-348.

Banks, Patricia A. 2010. Journal of Race and Policy 6 (1): 95-105.


Appointed as Co-Editor-In-Chief of .


Presenting-鈥淒iversity Capital: Corporate Support of Black Culture,鈥 Culture, Organizations, and Identities panel. Southern Sociological Society, April 2019, Atlanta, GA


Presenting-鈥淒iversity Capital: How Cultural Patronage Shapes Corporate Identity鈥, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, March 2019, Berkeley, CA


Presenting-鈥淒iversity Capital: Culture and Racial Signaling in Corporations,鈥 Sociology Department, Stanford University, March 2019, Stanford, CA


Presenting-鈥淧hilanthropy and Black Culture,鈥 CASBS, Stanford University, February 2019, Stanford, CA


Secretary-Treasurer (elected), Section on Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, American Sociological Association (2019- )