Four years later, I accepted an associate professor position at University of Texas, where I taught for twenty years. I served as Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1974-1975). In 1990 I moved to the University of Florida, where I became the graduate research professor in sociology. 

Over the years I have done research work on a variety of racism and sexism issues. Recent examples of this work can be seen in Racial and Ethnic Relations (Sixth edition; Prentice-Hall, 1999; with Clairece Booher Feagin); Living with Racism: The Black Middle Class Experience (Beacon, 1994; with Mel Sikes); White Racism: The Basics (Routledge, 1995; with Hernan Vera); Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism (M.E. Sharpe, 1998; with Yanick St. Jean); The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities (Routledge, 1996; with Hernan Vera and Nikitah Imani); and The New Urban Paradigm (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). 

My book with Harlan Hahn, Ghetto Revolts (Macmillan, 1973), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Living with Racism and White Racism have won the Gustavus Myers Center's Outstanding Human Rights Book Award. 

I am past president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), which included chairing the Program Committee for the summer 2000 ASA meeting in Washington, D.C.