Not Without Precedent: Populist White Evangelical Support for Trump
Rather than signaling the end times for a unified conservative religious movement, Trump’s election has given many white evangelicals the opportunity to be politically born again.
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First-Generation College Students as Post-Election Go-Betweens
Contrary to prevailing ivory tower stereotypes, many academics work in less of a bubble than it might appear. How do we engage students with different viewpoints and help them engage home communities and places faraway from academia?
Sandra Smith and Dave Harding: “Criminal Justice Reform in the Era of Trump”
Watch Sandra Smith and Dave Harding’s lecture, “Criminal Justice Reform in the Era of Trump,” part of the teach-in seminar series: “What Next? Sociologists Speak on the Future of the World.”
It Is Expensive to Be Poor: A Review of Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted”
In Evicted, Matthew Desmond demonstrates that the urban poor are not just victims of neglect but targets of persistent exploitation.
Place-Branding Detroit: Beloved Community or Big Society?
As white flight and the flight of capital continued to accelerate, the movement of industrial manufacturing jobs to the suburbs, the Sun Belt, and the Global South decimated working class Black Detroiters.
Ferguson Residents and Protesters Views about Police Perceptions of Race and Crime
While many have proposed that hiring more Black officers is an effective way to alleviate longstanding tension between police and African American citizens, this article shows that a shared racial background does not always guarantee positive police perceptions among Ferguson residents and protesters.
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory
Under the leadership of W. E. B. Du Bois, Atlanta became a hub of early American sociology with rigorous empirical studies of black communities. One hundred years later, that history has been pushed to the sidelines.
For Colored Scholars Who Consider Suicide When Our Rainbows Are Not Enuf
Du Bois was deeply aware of the capacity of marginalized people to produce new knowledge about oppression and inequality. He is still a beacon for young colored scholars today.
Three Great Revolutions: Black Women and Social Change
Long before “intersectionality” gave us a language to analyze the interactions of race, class, and gender, W.E.B. Du Bois examined the particular experience and role of black women in American capitalism.
From Du Bois to Black Lives Matter
One of W.E.B. Du Bois’ most powerful ideas was also most discomforting to the establishment: A belief in rigorous scholarship that was also engaged in the project of political transformation. It’s a legacy we ought to reclaim.
The Case for Scholarly Reparations
Race, the history of sociology, and the marginalized man – lessons from Aldon Morris’ book “The Scholar Denied”
Keep It Contentious
If #BlackLivesMatter matters, it will partly be due to its disruptive tactics.