Guest posts
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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by Joey N. Jennings and Carter Yunyu Teng
The recent SCOTUS decision on affirmative action does not just perpetuate inequality in college access—it also intentionally pits racial minorities against each other.
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by Peter Francis Harvey
What do schools teach children about their position and direction in the world?
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by Sigrid Luhr
Amid heightened scrutiny, how do tech workers make sense of diversity within their own companies and arrive at the conclusion that they're "better than most"?
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by Jukka Savolainen
The Florida professor’s inevitable termination was the cause, not the consequence, of his speech.
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by Marci Cottingham and Ariana Rose
What types of digital humor emerge during an outbreak? And how does humor help negotiate themes of risk, contagion, and connections with others, particularly within Black Twitter?
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by Steven Lubet
Recent years have seen increased emphasis on fact-checking in journalism, politics, and academics. Ethnography presents a particular set of challenges that some scholars have …
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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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