Michaela Soyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a first-generation scholar. Her current work focuses on delinquency, incarceration, recidivism and social theory. She has also conducted research about …
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Read More >Amanda McMillan Lequieu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this post, Professor McMillan Lequieu explains how she used case studies to anchor a keystone course …
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Read More >In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association …
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Read More >By Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization One pattern emerging in the new millennium involves ordinary people mobilizing around increasingly negative conditions. When we observe some of …
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