Contexts Blog
by Helen B. Marrow, Will Tyson, Susan C. Pearce, Martha Crowley, and Kim Ebert
In October 2017, the Tar River Times, a newspaper with a small print circulation in Tarboro, North Carolina—the hometown of both immigration sociologist Helen …
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by Andrew Kerner and Charles Crabtree
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that the World Bank allowed politics to influence their assessments of business climates around the …
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by Marcus Anthony Hunter
In the weeks and years following the conclusion of World War II, Du Bois had traveled the globe advocating for nuclear disarmament and sending peacegrams …
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by Matthew W. Hughey
Confederate statues and their demise have been top-of-mind lately. But every spring, a different statue captures our attention—it’s 13.5” tall, weighs 8.5 pounds, and is …
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by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
Call for Papers Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds is issuing a call for papers for its Fall 2018 issue, …
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by Bas Hofstra
On the morning of November 9th 2016, many democratic-oriented Americans updated their Facebook timelines, unhappy and frustrated about a rather unexpected outcome in the U.S. presidential election. People were …
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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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