Guest posts
by Timothy M. Gill
This year marks the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. Activists continue to evoke his name in their struggles, academics continue to engage with his work …
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by Judith Taylor
When you spend a good deal of time with a person as they make their way from this world to the next, you are bound …
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by Contexts Magazine
Editors’ Note: In observance of the first anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Contexts is republishing our collection of essays written in …
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by Sammy Wu, Emma Mishel, Paula England, and Kristine Wang
Sociologists have long been interested in immigrant assimilation. They have usually focused on how well immigrants are able to learn English, earn educational degrees, find …
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by Emma Mishel and Paula England
A growing proportion of Americans have had a same-sex sex partner at some point during their life, especially among women (as we show here …
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by Genesis Torres and Kim Ebert
Spend a day in the South Texas Family Residential Center (STFRC), and you’ll realize the extent of the criminalization of immigration. Its name may conjure …
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by Helen B. Marrow, Will Tyson, Susan C. Pearce, Martha Crowley, and Kim Ebert
In October 2017, the Tar River Times, a newspaper with a small print circulation in Tarboro, North Carolina—the hometown of both immigration sociologist Helen …
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by Marcus Anthony Hunter
In the weeks and years following the conclusion of World War II, Du Bois had traveled the globe advocating for nuclear disarmament and sending peacegrams …
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by Bas Hofstra
On the morning of November 9th 2016, many democratic-oriented Americans updated their Facebook timelines, unhappy and frustrated about a rather unexpected outcome in the U.S. presidential election. People were …
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by Milton Vickerman
It must be said that Charlottesville is a self-consciously liberal bubble—a blue dot in a red state (barring Northern Virginia) in which students routinely volunteer …
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