This article, which also serves as the introduction for this special guest-edited issue, examines the history of Rural Sociology's scholarly engagement with rurality, race, and ethnicity. We examine the historical patterns of how Rural Sociology has addressed race and ethnicity, and then present results from a meta-analysis of empirical articles published between 1971 and 2020. Over time, the methodological approaches and scholarly focus of articles on race and ethnicity within Rural Sociology has gradually expanded to include more analyses of power and inequality using constructivist perspectives, and greater numbers of qualitative inquiries into the lived experiences of both white and nonwhite people. The articles featured in the special issue extend from Rural Sociology's growing attention to race and ethnicity. Together, they suggest the ways in which rural spaces are racially coded, how intersections with race and ethnicity exacerbate rural inequality, how the domination of people and the environment are co-constituted, and how practices of racism are embedded within contextually specific ecologies. In drawing attention to these contributions, we suggest future directions for the discipline's engagement with rurality, race, and ethnicity, while simultaneously suggesting the ways in which our own disciplinary racial reckoning remains incomplete.

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种族、民族和 21 世纪农村社会学想象：特刊简介*

这篇文章也作为本期特邀编辑的导言，探讨了农村社会学在学术上与农村、种族和民族相关的历史。我们研究了农村社会学如何处理种族和族裔的历史模式，然后展示了对 1971 年至 2020 年间发表的实证文章的元分析结果。社会学逐渐扩展到包括使用建构主义观点对权力和不平等进行更多分析，以及对白人和非白人的生活经历进行更多的定性调查。本期特刊中的文章源于农村社会学对种族和族裔的日益关注。一起，它们提出了农村空间的种族编码方式，种族和族裔的交叉如何加剧农村不平等，人与环境的统治如何共同构成，以及种族主义的做法如何嵌入特定背景的生态系统中。在提请注意这些贡献时，我们为该学科与乡村、种族和民族的参与提出了未来的方向，同时提出了我们自己的学科种族计算仍然不完整的方式。