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 …
Read More >by Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington, and Jennifer Lundquist, authors of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance Dating apps and websites have become the most popular way …
Read More >Prolific and prestigious sociologist Aldon Morrison explains how social justice movements succeed—from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.
Read More >“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 resentment.”
Read More >by Jennifer Randles, author of Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering Only if I’m dead or in jail. These were the reasons the fathers I talked to said they would …
Read More >by Maurice Rafael Magaña, author of Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and global stay-at-home orders, 2020 has been a year of historic …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence If you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison …
Read More >By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …
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