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A Doodle in Context
Google Doodle screenshot via 5tjt The doodle on the Google home page today may have raised a few eyebrows. Featuring a dark-skinned man running over a course of hurdles on a pink track lined with green...
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The United States has a greater share of its population behind bars than any other nation. Yet this captive audience is almost never captured by large national surveys used to study the U.S....
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And the Diploma Goes To…
Photo by CollegeDegrees360 via flickr.com Graphic Sociology’s Laura Norén recently posted an illustration of who is earning degrees in the U.S., highlighting the growing percentage of women earning...
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The City of Put-Upon Curmudgeons?
The lead article in the most recent Philadelphia Magazine, “Being White In Philly” by Robert Huber, has—to put it politely—spurred a lot of talk. Huber devotes his article to sharing the “true” voice...
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Little Pink Subprimes
Photo by Kristine Lewis via flickr.com. For many, the “American Dream” means owning a comfortable home in a nice neighborhood, and that idea brings a certain Mellencamp tune to mind. The song nods to a...
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Affluenza: A Cute Name for the S.O.S.
Photo by Martin Bowling via Flickr CC. Click for original. The latest controversy in criminal justice revolves around the defense of 16-year-old Ethan Couch, who killed four people when he hit them...
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“Brown Eggs” and the Hush-Hush Infertility Gap
Photo by woodleywonderworks via Flickr Creative Commons. According to the New York Times, research from everyone from the Department of Health and Human Services to the CDCP, National Survey of Family...
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Alice Goffman: Telling the Tale of Extreme Ethnography
Photo by Greger Ravik via Flickr. Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City shares the stories of young men evading arrest for crimes ranging from unpaid fines to murder. In...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Welcomes Trans-Caucasians
What do you get when you cross University of Minnesota Sociology professor Carolyn Liebler, census data, and issues of identity? This segment on the Colbert Report. The Colbert Report The...
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NFL’s Domestic Abuse Prevention Team Drafts Sociologist Beth Richie
Go Love! Photo of Marcel Love by Greg Keene via Flickr. In response to the disturbing number of domestic violence arrests of its players, the NFL recently created a panel for implementing domestic...
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Self-Segregation in San Francisco Schools
Photo by WoodleyWonderworks, Flickr.com. School segregation has been the topic of social science research and public debate for decades. Still, the average person may think than in the post-Civil...
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Orphaned by Incarceration
A screenshot from a Sesame Street clip about parents in prison. If you happen to be watching Sesame Street, you may notice a new Muppet named Alex. The child’s father is in prison. Many viewers may...
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Unsurprising Stats: Hollywood Lacks Diversity
The 2015 Oscar nominees are announced. Photo by RedCarpetReport via flickr cc. Following the whitest Academy Awards in nearly 20 years, UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies...
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Spitting and Suspicion: Racialization of Low-level Crimes
Minneapolis photo by Sharon Mollerus via Flickr CC. Sociologist Nancy Heitzeg collaborated with community consultant William W. Smith IV for a piece in the Star Tribune about the racial policing of...
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For Gay Black Men, Negative Stereotypes May Have One Positive Consequence
Purple Sherbet Photography via Creative Commons Sociologists are quite familiar with the combination of marginalized identities that can lead to oppression, inequalities, and “double disadvantages.”...
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Toking While Black?
This 2013 Denver rally attendee probably still needs that note from his mom. Photo by Cannabis Destiny, Flickr. “Spark it up!” Sure, next time you’re in Colorado, you might want to stock up on...
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“Culture of Poverty” a Poor Explanation for Racial Disparities
Since the 1965 “Moynihan Report,” conversations about disproportionate inequalities between white and black communities have historically focused on “black culture”—that is, explanations of racial...
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Sociologists Begin to Talk Baltimore
Photo by Fibonacci Blue, Minneapolis, MN, April 29, 2015. Click for original. As the nation’s gaze is set on Baltimore, sociologists have begun to talk to the press about the massive peaceful...
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The Persistence of White Supremacy
The battles of the past are not yet in the past. Photo by Paul Walsh, 1987. In February, PBS’s Independent Lens series aired “American Denial,” a documentary examining the powerful unconscious biases...
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Black Communities Hit Hard When Government Shrinks
Do declining government jobs chip away at the stamps’ promise? That’s likely true for a lot of reasons, but one is just coming to light: For many African-Americans, working for the government has...
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