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Q&A with Drs. Laurel Westbrook and stef m. shuster

by Contexts Magazine
Dr. Laurel Westbrook and Dr. stef m. shuster discuss their Fall 2023 article “Transgender Joy: Flipping the Script on Marginality,” telling Contexts grad … Read More

Intensive Motherwork: Racism and Black Women’s Mothering

by Mia Brantley
As I chatted with Asia over a video call, it was evident how much she loved being a mother. Her face lit up as she … Read More

What it’s like to be the target of a book ban

by Arlene Stein
In this post, Arlene Stein reflects on the experience of having her book, Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity, targeted for … Read More

Getting Both Sides of the Story: The Benefits of Dyadic Interviewing in Studies of Young Adulthood

by Gaby Flores, Elena G. van Stee, Ariel Chan, and and Angelica Qin
In this post, blog editor Elena van Stee is joined by Gaby Flores, Ariel Chan, and Angelica Qin to discuss their … Read More

Q&A with Aldon Morris and Naomi Schneider

by Elena van Stee
The following post is the second in a two-part series celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois and the ongoing efforts by contemporary scholars and activists to … Read More

The Scholar Denied and Du Bois’s Legacy in Ghana

by Aldon Morris
The following post is the first in a two-part series celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois and the ongoing efforts by contemporary scholars and activists to preserve … Read More

Q&A with Dr. C.J. Pascoe

by Elena van Stee
We are thrilled to welcome C.J. Pascoe to the Contexts Blog in celebration of C.J.’s new book, Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of … Read More

Airport Sociology

by Dan Brook
I returned to the United States from Thailand having just completed my seventh term leading Hands on Thailand (HoT), a study-abroad/service-learning sociology program I … Read More

How does anti-Asian bias contribute to school segregation in the United States?

by Bonnie Siegler and Greer Mellon
This essay is reposted with permission from the School Diversity Notebook. Despite preponderous evidence of historical and contemporary anti-Asian bias and violence in the United States, … Read More

Families We Keep

by Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith
As recent events have made clear, LGBTQ+ adults in the United States still face significant barriers to full social acceptance. Research shows that this … Read More

About Contexts

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. We're the public face of sociology.

It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn (University of British Columbia), with Letta Page.