Sisterhood Is More Prominent Than Ever In Today’s TV
More and more TV shows are beginning to employ a "rhetoric of sisterhood" to advance the idea of intersectional feminism and ally-ship. Read more ›
How Did #BlackLivesMatter Affect Racism?
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter marches that swept the country beginning in 2013, Jeremy Sawyer and his colleague investigated the movement's impact on racial attitudes and implicit bias. Read more ›
What Happens When Immigration Enforcement Goes Local?
Professor Monica Varsanyi examines the “patchwork of local immigration policing” partially responsible for soaring deportation statistics in Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines. Read more ›
New York’s New Latinos
The second edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition is a collection of essays on topics like race, culture, identity, health, criminal justice, media, and higher education. Read more ›
Defining Society Through Space and Place
Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place situates ideas of space and place in contexts of globalization, real estate development, violence, social inequity, and territorial conflict. Read more ›
One Way to Combat Economic Inequality: Make It an Issue of Opportunity
A study by Professor Leslie McCall reveals that Americans are more likely to support policies that redistribute income and pay when they are presented with straightforward, objective information about rising economic inequality. Read more ›
Could We Take a Cue From Eleanor Roosevelt’s Humanitarian Work?
Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook’s history of the nation’s longest-serving first lady is a sweeping, vivid portrait of a woman who never stopped fighting for social justice. Read more ›