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Richie Zweigenhaft, Dana Professor of Psychology, teaches a range of courses in social psychology and personality. He also has taught various courses about mass media, courses about race, class and gender, and courses about sports. For example, every few years he teaches a seminar for entering students titled "Sports, Race, Gender, and the American Dream." In addition, he has been playing in a noontime basketball game with students, faculty and staff three days a week for more than thirty years. Click here to see him going to his left in a photo from a Guilford College yearbook of about a decade ago, and to read about how his team ("Dead Men Dribbling") has done in the annual three on three tournament at the North Carolina Senior Games. Richie is also the coauthor (with G. William Domhoff) of five books on the American power structure. The first, Jews in the Protestant Establishment (Praeger, 1982), examined the extent to which Jews had become a part of the corporate elite and, for those who had, the ways their newly acquired elite status affected their identities as Jews. The second, Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America (Yale University Press, 1991), examined the experiences of a group of black men and women who attended elite boarding schools in the 1960s through a program called "A Better Chance." The third, Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? (Yale University Press, 1998) looked at the extent to which the power elite, which once was made up exclusively of white Christian men, now includes Jews, African Americans, women, Latinos, Asian-Americans and homosexuals. The book asks how much the power elite diversified in the second half of the twentieth century. The book also examines whether or not the increased diversity has affected the way the power elite functions. The fourth, Blacks in the White Elite: Will the Progress Continue?, published by Rowman & Littlefield in April, 2003, is an updated edition of Blacks in the White Establishment? The book draws on new interviews conducted between 2000 and 2002 with the same men and women interviewed in the late 1980s for the first edition of the book, and new material on more recent graduates of the A Better Chance program. The fifth, published in June 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield, is an updated edition of Diversity in the Power Elite: How it Happened, Why it Matters.
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