Summer 2012
Volume 11, Issue 3
Michael Schudson on what we know about Rosa Parks, Michael Kimmel on the role of chance, accident, and luck in research, and Jean Beaman on the North African middle class in France. This issue also features Viewpoints on Obama’s first term and features on sex entrepreneurs in China, marriage promotion advocates, and opera fanatics.
Features
Telling Stories about Rosa Parks
What we know about the civil rights pioneer—and why we’re often wrong about her.
Rosa Parks, Strategic Activist
Accompanying Michael Schudson's feature on Rosa Parks, Aldon Morris provides commentary to enhance our understanding of Rosa Parks and her activism.
Sex Entrepreneurs in the New China
Money boys and the contradictions of China’s breakneck economic transformation.
Marriage Goes To School
Can one learn how to be a good husband or wife? Marriage promotion advocates think so.
Opera Thugs and Passionate Fandom
From love at first sight to diligent study: what it takes to be a fanatic.
But Madame, We Are French Also
Being middle class, North African, and second generation in France.
Departments
From the Editors
Writing for Your Favorite Aunt
In Brief
From Private Pennies to Public Good
Time Flies–When You’re Getting Older
Gentlemen Prefer Stouts
Attack of the Pink Slime
To Be, Or Not To Be (Gay)
Q&A
The Politics of Broken Dreams
Jargon
Neurodiversity
Viewpoints
Judging Obama
Mediations
The French Take Hollywood
Small Town, Big Totem
In Pictures
Killadelphia
Trends
Park(ing) Day
The Rich and the Rest
Books
Immigrant Dreams
Rethinking Sexual Violence
Breakthrough Books: Race and Racism
Pedagogies
Teaching a Hip-Hop Ecology
Unplugged
When History Intervenes
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