Contexts Blog
by Contexts' Editors
“Zombie Durkheim,” © David Witt, DWITT.com, for Contexts Magazine. On the anniversary of his death, we wanted to share …
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by Emma Mishel and Mónica L. Caudillo
A 2014 New York Times story called “Google, Tell me. Is My Son a Genius?” reported that people ask Google whether their sons are …
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by Zach Richer
This is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Willy Wonka moment. The online retailer, consumer electronics giant, film studio, cloud computing company, and gourmet grocer announced a …
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by Hannah Cash, Kelsey Drotning, and Paige Miller
The word disaster conjures a variety of devastating images. Natural disasters can have unpredictable and frightening impacts on communities. Survivors of such events …
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by Rogers Brubaker
I hold Iván Szelényi in the highest esteem. I was therefore disappointed to find that his review of my book Trans: Gender and Race …
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by Milton Vickerman
It must be said that Charlottesville is a self-consciously liberal bubble—a blue dot in a red state (barring Northern Virginia) in which students routinely volunteer …
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by Hyein Lee and Margaret Chin
The Trump administration’s decision to (sort of) rescind DACA, despite formally announcing in June that the policy will temporarily remain intact epitomizes the contentious nature …
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by Michelle J. Cera, Jessie Ford, and and Paula England
Heterosexual men’s experiences of unwanted sex are often overlooked. We tend to see sexual assault perpetrators as male and victims as female—and usually that is …
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by Kristine Wang, Jessie Ford, and and Paula England
To study immigrants’ experiences in American society, researchers often compare first- or second-generation immigrants to those whose families have been in the US for a …
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by Syed Ali and Philip N. Cohen
Contexts is a labor of love, not just for the editors, but for our writers, editorial board members, and everyone else involved. There …
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