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September 2022
Colloquium: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University
Dyke Bars Never Last’: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars in Four Cities Abstract: Drawing on data from a four-city ethnography, the talk explores why we remember and mourn dyke bars today, as well as why commemorators who are too young to have attended dyke bars nonetheless engage in commemorative efforts. It demonstrates how contemporary LBQT+ activists grapple with the legacy of identity politics that they inherit, and how an urban process – gentrification – serves…
Find out more »Colloquium: Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona
Repertoires of Control: Explaining Organizational Innovation and Change in US Protest Policing Abstract: Scholars studying social movement repression and protest policing in the US and abroad have prioritized the identification of, and explanation of, changes in best practice models for protest policing. In the US, a widely accepted account of protest policing in the 1960s and 1970s claims that a dominant best practice model—known as escalated force—was pervasive in US policing through the end of the 1960s. In this…
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Colloquium: Brittany Friedman, University of Southern California
Born in Blood: Death Work, White Power, and the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family Abstract: Drawing on several hours of life history interviews and hundreds of archival documents, Friedman traces the institutional conditions that spurred the rise of the Black Guerilla Family within the California Department of Corrections. She advances a critical race theory of prison order, emphasizing how institutions operationalize the logics of white supremacy and divide and conquer using official and extralegal controls. Friedman documents how in…
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Colloquium: Patricia Homan, Florida State University
Structural Sexism and Health in the United States Abstract: In this talk, Patricia Homan will discuss her award-winning work developing new theory and measurement for the concept of structural sexism. Her talk will describe: what structural sexism is, how it shapes the health of both women and men in the US, how sexism relates to other types of structural oppression (e.g., racism and heterosexism), and how future studies can build on this emerging line of research BIO: Patricia Homan is…
Find out more »Colloquium: Jordan Conwell, University of Texas at Austin
Household Financial Returns to College Quality: Race, Gender, and Social Origins Abstract: College quality—a close substitute for terms such as selectivity or prestige—is a consistent predictor of economic returns throughout the life course. Yet, most research considers these outcomes only at the individual level, thus overlooking how college quality contributes to inequality at the level of households. We take an intersectional and life course approach to the study of household inequality, guided by longstanding racial and gender disparities in where…
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Colloquium: Andrea Boyles, Tulane University
“They’re Killing Us on Paper”: Accounting for Systemic Injustice and Black Resistance Beyond Policing and Protests Education: Ph.D. Kansas State University Biography: Dr. Andrea Boyles is a sociologist, criminologist, and author of the books, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America (UC Press 2019) and Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for Comfort (UC Press 2015). As a feminist, race scholar and ethnographer, her work accounts for social inequality and (in)justice regarding,…
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Colloquium: Neal Caren, UNC Chapel Hill
Dare You Fight: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis Abstract: In 1910, W.E.B Du Bois founded The Crisis, the official journal of the newly established NAACP. Du Bois commissioned thousands of articles during his twenty-five years as an editor, ranging from poetry and plays to lynching investigations. In addition, he wrote more than a thousand pieces, only a few of which have been made widely available since publication. In this project, I look at how his writing and editorial decisions during this period can…
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Colloquium: Erin Hamilton, University of California, Davis
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico Abstract: Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.-born children living in Mexico doubled in size. In this study we estimate the number of and describe the circumstances facing U.S.-born children who emigrated to Mexico from the U.S. in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic…
Find out more »Colloquium: Tressie McMillan Cottom, UNC Chapel Hill
Education: PhD (Sociology), Emory University BA (English and Political Science), North Carolina Central University Biography: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is an award-winning author, professor, and sociologist, whose work has earned national and international recognition for the urgency and depth of its incisive critical analysis of technology, higher education, class, race, and gender. Her most recent accolades include a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship(link is external), informally known as the “genius grant.” She is an associate professor at the UNC School of…
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