Guest posts
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, …
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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 …
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by Jessica Halliday Hardie
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 …
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by Jonathan Mijs
Runaway income segregation and inequality call attention to the changing conditions of life on each side of the growing economic divide. But as social …
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by Sarah Bruhn
The day was cold, dreary, and wet, as so many November days are in New England. The weather kept attendance low at an English class …
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by Jozef C. Robles
Part 3: “How Would I Get Past the Wall?” May 24, 2022 The much-anticipated day had finally arrived: it was time for my immigration interview.
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by Jozef C. Robles
Part 2: “Do You Have Any Sexually Transmitted Diseases? Are You Sure?” May 18, 2022 We arrived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, later that day. Stepping …
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by Jozef C. Robles
Part 1: “No Matter What Happens, Please Don’t Leave Me Here” In 1990, my parents brought our family across the Mexican/American border. I was two …
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by Musa al-Gharbi
How faculty hiring and promotional practices convert unearned advantages into indicators of “merit."
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by Melissa C. Brown
Black sociology analyzes society from the standpoint of Black people to highlight how historical social structures affect them today. Its scholars-activists bridge academia and the public from a non-eurocentric perspective by addressing the interconnectedness of racial and economic inequalities impacting Black Americans.
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