“I’ve always been interested as a sociologist and a researcher in trying to better understand how issues related to race, gender, and inequality persist in professional workplaces.” — Adia Harvey Wingfield, author …
Read More >September 23 – 28 is 2019’s Banned Books Week. Held annually since 1982 and sponsored by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, Banned Books Week is celebrated “in shared …
Read More >On Sept. 11 , 2019, the Smithsonian-affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA hosted Carnegie Mellon University professor Joe William Trotter, Jr. for a celebration of his new book Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.
Read More >By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American …
Read More >At this year’s American Sociological Association conference, we celebrate the work of our award-winning authors. Congratulations to our wonderful scholars, teachers, and activists. #ASA19 #ScholarActivist Abigail Leslie Andrews, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the …
Read More >By Celeste Watkins-Hayes, author of Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological …
Read More >By Andrea S. Boyles, author of You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the …
Read More >The fundamental purpose for redressing atrocities is to accentuate a common humanity between perpetrator and victims. Roy L. Brooks, author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations An issue …
Read More >University of California Press and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists will launch National Review of Black Politics in 2020. The journal will be published quarterly in January, April, July and …
Read More >April is Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), and UC Press is jazzed to celebrate! Founded in 2001 by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, JAM serves to recognize the collective influence jazz musicians, …
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