Contexts

sociology for the public

Summer 2018

Volume: 17 | Number: 3

From Black Lives Matter to #MeToo and the March for Our Lives, Americans are protesting police killings, pressuring lawmakers to address gun control, holding abusers accountable for rape, assault, and sexual harassment, demanding an end to the separation of immigrant parents and children, and asserting their rights to bodily autonomy and equal pay for equal work. Yet these marches and mobilizations are not the whole of resistance. Many are quick to think of daily, incremental actions as nothing more than “slacktivism”, but challenging policing, education policy, abortion restrictions, and pay inequities has to start somewhere. This issue explores what we mean when we say, “Resist.”

The Sociological Imagination Is Well Suited to Political Office

The weekend I graduated from the 2018 Emerge program—a six-month boot-camp for women wanting to run for office—a very different graduation picture showed up in … Read More

Activism and the Academy, An Interview with Cornel West

Cornel West wears many hats: He is a professor (currently Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University), author (of 20 books), film … Read More

Broadening the Landscape of Blackness, An Interview with Ayana V. Jackson

In the ongoing and profound expansion of possibility in the visual landscape of Blackness, photographer Ayana V. Jackson brings a critical, aesthetic edge that is … Read More

When Discrimination Goes to Court

Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality by Ellen Berrey, Robert J. Nelson, and Laura Beth Neilsen University of … Read More

Resistance: Summer 2018 Letter from the Editors

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Summer 2018 Table of Contents

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The Struggle to Save Abortion Care

Resisting both physical attacks and widespread policy proscriptions, mission-driven abortion care providers continue working to help their patients. Read More