Bruce D. Haynes

Bruce D. Haynes

Bruce D. Haynes is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis, and a senior fellow in the Urban Ethnography Project at Yale University. His publications include The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America (NYU Press, 2018); Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (Columbia University Press, 2017), with Syma Solovitch; and Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (Yale University Press, 2001).


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