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Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors
Aug 02 2024
In the summer of 2020, following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the United States and the ensuing global protests against anti-Black racism led by the Black Lives Matter movement, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial ine
How Online Black Resistance Efforts Outlive Political Clickbait
Mar 13 2024
By Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, author of Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital AgeFor my sanity, I’ve mostly avoided politics this 2024 season. Yet somehow, I found myself glued to the television for the recent State of the Union address — the “superbowl” for politi
Watch: Interview with Asian American Artist-Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, From Internment to Liberation
Apr 08 2021
A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and
Dating while Black: Online, but Invisible
Feb 14 2021
by Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington, and Jennifer Lundquist, authors of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online RomanceDating apps and websites have become the most popular way Americans meet new people and the only way to do so during the pandemic. Yet, for many Black America
How Do You Launch a Movement? How Do You Sustain It? Aldon Morris on Social Justice Success
Feb 10 2021
Prolific and prestigious sociologist Aldon Morrison explains how social justice movements succeed—from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.
Racial Resentment and Whites’ Feelings toward Black Lives Matter: A Q&A with Dr. Emmitt Y. Riley, III
Jan 15 2021
"Movement that centers on providing racial justice for Black people must always be unapologetically Black. In our work, we articulate that in an environment that is highly racialized, we must realize the limits of white support, specifically if such approval is conditional on factors such as racial
The Fathers Who Could Have Been George Floyd
Nov 19 2020
by Jennifer Randles, author of Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of FatheringOnly if I’m dead or in jail. These were the reasons the fathers I talked to said they would not be there for their children. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, these words would c
How to Sustain a Mass Movement? Lessons from Urban Indigenous Youth Collectives and “Decolonial Anarchism” in Mexico
Oct 12 2020
by Maurice Rafael Magaña, author of Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in MexicoDespite the COVID-19 pandemic and global stay-at-home orders, 2020 has been a year of historic mass mobilizations. The most spectacular constellation of actions has emerged from the
Q&A with ASA President-Elect, Aldon Morris
Aug 06 2020
This year marks several honors for UC Press author and distinguished sociologist, Aldon Morris—including recognition as the incoming 2021 ASA President and the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Yet these honors are no exception to Morris' prolific and prestigious career, from
Q&A with ASA President Christine L. Williams
Aug 05 2020
As many scholars can attest, this year's ASA President Christine Williams is one of the most influential sociologists of the last half century. With almost too-many awards to count, Williams has challenged the discipline to integrate feminist methodologies and has fundamentally shaped how sociologis