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In memoriam: Michael Burawoy

Feb 07 2025
With the tragic news of his passing on February 3, 2025, our Executive Editor Naomi Schneider shares a tribute to Michael Burawoy, a legendary figure in the field of Sociology.
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College Football, Masculinity, and Race: Q&A with Tracie Canada

Jan 17 2025
With the 2025 NCAA Football National Championship game near, "Tacking the Everyday" author Tracie Canada talks about her new book and her unique perspective on college football.
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Free trade’s legacy of grief for families of the disappeared in Mexico

Nov 11 2024
In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that allowed criminal organizations to thrive—and ordinary people have paid the price.
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Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes

Nov 07 2024
Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.
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Tinkering with the Future: Everyday Experiments Under Startup Capitalism

Nov 05 2024
In their insistence on reworking what labor means and how it is experienced, women workers in Bengaluru offer significant insights into the time, space, and meaning of work under startup capitalism.
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System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy

Oct 30 2024
In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. I was both stressed out and exhausted, wired with anxiety.
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Q&A with Laureen Hom, author of "The Power of Chinatown"

Oct 09 2024
Author Laureen Hom explains what urban Chinatowns have to teach us about coalition-building, pushing back against gentrification, and envisioning neighborhood changes that are community-driven and equitable.
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Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff, author of "Real Food, Real Facts"

Oct 02 2024
In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. Real Food, Real Facts offers lessons that extend well beyond food choice and will appeal to readers interested in how everyday people come to accept or reject scientific authority in matters of personal health and well-being.
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Rest in Peace, Darlene

Sep 06 2024
“The tough-looking blonde over there,” is how Darlene was described to us nearly fifteen years ago when we launched our ongoing project with formerly incarcerated women in Massachusetts. Our first conversation was brief; her words were clipped. She gave the impression that she was annoyed, that she was in a hurry to go somewhere important.
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Q&A with Stephanie L. Canizales, author of Sin Padres, Ni Papeles

Sep 04 2024
First-gen scholar and author Stephanie L. Canizales discusses the inspiring stories of the migrant youth at the center of her work, the research and writing process for Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, and how to better support first-gen scholars.
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