I wrote this two months ago. Given what Cheeto Jesus said this morning on Fox & Friends about eliminating the Dept of Ed, it seems relevant
My latest, for the Mississippi Free Press: Project 2025 Provides a Blueprint for the Return of ‘Separate and Unequal’ Schools www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-proj...
James Thomas writes on how the Supreme Court’s ruling of Brown v. Board of Education has affected the education system and the dangers Project 2025 poses to this doctrine.
A necessary analysis of how the Arab-Israeli conflict and the question of Palestine shaped the various trajectories of the Black Freedom Movement in the US, and the political identities of Black Freedom Movement actors.
My latest, for the Mississippi Free Press: Project 2025 Provides a Blueprint for the Return of ‘Separate and Unequal’ Schools www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-proj...
James Thomas writes on how the Supreme Court’s ruling of Brown v. Board of Education has affected the education system and the dangers Project 2025 poses to this doctrine.
Great new article on climate change out in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! #greensky#sociology#geosky#poliskyjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Past research observing differences in environmental attitudes across racial and ethnic groups often mischaracterized those differences as deficits, casting env...
This week my graduate students and I examined some of the contemporary scholarship on colonialism, postcolonialism, and the post-9/11 era. We had an especially generative discussion on the racialization of Muslims
Really thankful for @tressiemcphd.bsky.social#SSS2024 on how platforms have captured our publics - and our knowledge labor - and transformed them into extractive and exploitative phenomena.
This week my graduate students and I began Rawls and Duck’s (2020) Tacit Racism, putting it in conversation with Du Bois and Blumer. Our conversation today focused on the inner workings of racialized interaction orders
This week my graduate students and I read and discussed Karen and Barbara Fields’s Racecraft. We spent a good deal of our discussion going through the various mechanisms that undergird Racecraft: sumptuary codes, rituals of deference and domination, and the language of blood
Really great conversation on how struggle and contestation between the racial state and social movements shapes how power and resources are distributed across racial lines
This week, we are finishing up Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, reading Part III and pairing it with readings from Eva Garroutte (2001), Mattias Smångs (2016), and Hana Brown (2020)
