Guest posts
by Catherine Tan
“Welcome to this warrior gang and we are bad motherfuckers!” exclaimed Jenny McCarthy to an audience of applauding parents. During an early autumn weekend in …
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by Victor Ray
Some people still have stress dreams about high school exams. I still have stress dreams about working for David Bouley. Famed chef David Bouley passed …
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by Katie Mercer and Stefanie Mollborn
“Just recently martial arts has opened up, wearing masks and staying six feet away,” teenager Ryan told us. It was May 2020, the height of …
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by Stephanie Ternullo
I first met Isaac in September of 2019. Though it was still early in the fall, the weather had already turned cold in his hometown …
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by Contexts Magazine
To the Editors: In her essay, “The Drug War Turns 50,” Emily Campbell (2022) seriously misrepresents the situation when she …
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by Marcus A. Brooks
As sociology faculty nationwide counted down the days to winter break, heated debate again erupted on Academic Twitter (ahem, X). The point of contention? Praxis-oriented, …
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by Hajar Yazdiha
In the video below, USC Professor Hajar Yazdiha, author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How …
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by Trica Keaton
I’ve spent much of my adult life studying racism in France. As a Black woman and scholar, I’ve experienced the romanticized Paris of Black …
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by Holly Hummer
Although a growing share of Americans say they do not intend to have children in the future, childlessness is still a relatively uncommon family …
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by Ann Morning
Recently, a Swedish friend asked what my latest book was about. Upon learning that it was a comparison of racial thinking in the United States …
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