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Protecting Social Privilege = Not Wanting to Share Toys
By now, you have all probably been exposed to the Hunger Games racist fiasco (neatly collected and curated here). The story goes something like this: once upon a time, a lot of young people (mostly...
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Book Review – Evil
In Evil, sociologist Michel Wieviorka aims to claim “evil” as a territory for sociological investigation. It is not hard to see why sociologists have stayed away from the topic. It is thorny one. And...
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Book Review – Naughts and Crosses
I read Malorie Blackman‘s Naughts & Crosses because it got a lot of hype on my Twitter timeline and on the blogs I regularly read and also because, again, I am looking for a replacement to the...
View ArticleWe Can Now Officially Bury The Stupid “Post-Racial” Meme (Along with The !@#$...
So, this: “Racial prejudice in America is more widespread now than when President Barack Obama became the country’s first black president in a historic 2008 vote, a new survey has shown. In a poll of...
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The Social Construction of Race
On the one hand, there is this: “There’s never been good reason to believe that human beings are naturally racist. After all, in the environment of human evolution–which didn’t feature, for example,...
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Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow…
This country is about as residentially segregated now as it has always been: And the explanation for this deplorable state of affairs is developed in this long, but indispensable piece by Pro Publica...
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Book Review – To Free A Family
Sydney Nathans’s To Free A Family: The Journey of Mary Walker was a birthday gift. What a great reading it turned out to be. As the title indicates, the book is about Mary Walker’s struggle to get her...
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The Walking Dead… Where Black is The New Red Shirt
Because it seems to me that the series is on a “black dude of the week” theme. So, first, of course, there was Morgan (and his son) who rescued Rick, freshly awaken from his coma and still in his...
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