Contexts Blog
by Alyssa Lyons
Do you remember the first book you read that changed your life? I do. It was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I was in an …
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Jennifer Randles, co-author along with Jennifer Sherman of the Winter 2023 feature article “Diaper Despair and Deflecting Inequalities,” tells us why she loves …
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by Joshua R. Hummel and Emily P. Estrada
As sociologists who study race as it relates to immigrant detention, we see White ignorance as different from ignorance in the more general sense. In …
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Lauren Crosser is the author, along with Sarah Mayorga and Megan R. Underhill, of the feature article “Aisle Inequality” in the Winter 2023 issue …
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In her Winter 2023 article, “Heterosex on Campus: Laced with Double-Binds,” Chiara Elena Cooper’s interviews with race- and class-privileged college students reveal a web of …
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Above, co-author DeAnna Y. Smith, who penned the Winter 2023 feature “Child Removal Fears and Black Mothers’ Medical Decision-Making” with Alexus Roane, speaks with Contexts graduate …
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Contexts articles are perfect for the classroom: rigorous, relevant, readable, and rad! In this video, Dr. Seth Abrutyn, Contexts co-editor, talks about using his …
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What is Dr. Beth Hirsh’s favorite section of Contexts? The policy briefs, she says, are great because they put policymakers and scholars into conversation …
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About Contexts and its trends section, Dr. Laura Nelson (University of British Columbia) enthuses, “This is what we [sociologists] do: We take data and …
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As UBC welcomes Contexts (or, should we say, CANtexts?), we’re speaking with sociology faculty to learn what they love about the magazine and its public-facing mission. First up, …
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