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The Scholar Denied and Du Bois’s Legacy in Ghana

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

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

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?

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

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

Meet the Section Editors: Joseph Cohen

Contexts section editors are the amazing folks who make sure that we have a steady pipeline of fascinating work to share as culture reviews, photo … Read More

Seeing Others: A Conversation with Michèle Lamont

We are thrilled to welcome Michèle Lamont, Mari Sanchez, and Shira Zilberstein to the Contexts Blog in celebration of Michèle’s new book, Seeing Others. In this post, blog editor Elena van Stee chats with Michèle, Mari, and Shira about Seeing Others and their respective studies on Gen Z young adults. You can watch the full interview above and find lightly edited excerpts from their conversation below. Read More

Q&A with Dr. Emily Huddart Kennedy and Carly Hamdon

Are there right and wrong ways to care about the environment? For Dr. Emily Huddart Kennedy and Carly Hamdon, “Contexts was just this ideal … Read More

When Plans Fail

Are ambition and planning the keys to success for young people today? Popular media and many researchers would say yes. Such accounts depict navigating the … Read More

Lack of diversity on college campuses fuels naïve belief in meritocracy

Runaway income segregation and inequality call attention to the changing conditions of life on each side of the growing economic divide. But as social … Read More