Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence
Jul 24, 2013 · Thank you for this excellent essay with its critical, balanced analysis, which focuses our attention and needed actions -- on initiatives and understandings which include realistic critical historical analyses on race, and on conceptual frameworks which avoid simplistic, reductionistic "happy talk" - changing bloody reality to milk toast "diversity without …
NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
May 31, 2014 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared.The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
Jun 21, 2013 · While many American eugenicists railed about the threats posed by hordes of “dysgenic” immigrants (non-white, often, but also people from “undesirable” countries and bloodlines of all sorts), the core of eugenical science was …
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act and the History of Anti-lynching ...
Aug 30, 2022 · Wells shared the truth about lynching in her publications Southern Horrors and A Red Record.In A Red Record, Wells tabulates statics and provides detailed descriptions of lynchings that occurred across the United States.Wells makes the case that since Emancipation, there had been a series of three excuses made by whites to explain lynching.
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
Feb 27, 2012 · I know I'm late on this post, but Bernays did not fabricate this idea out of thin air. In the 1900s, in particular pre-war Greenwich Village, rebellious women, many of whom called themselves feminists, consciously smoked in public as a protest of male dominated culture.
A Sociological Look at Marijuana and Its Users
Apr 20, 2018 · Photo by Cannabis Culture, Flickr CC. April 20th isn’t exactly your average holiday, but ever since the late 1970s, 4/20 has been commonly associated with marijuana, as many refer to this date as “Weed Day.”
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries
Sep 10, 2020 · So, what are the boundaries of each socially constructed racial category? Generally, racial categories are constructed based on superficial biological characteristics of individuals such as skin tone, hair texture and color, eye shape, etc.
Physiognomy: Faces, Bodies, and the “Science” of Human Character
Jan 30, 2015 · Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught.Also available on Amazon.The book can best be described as an application of the theory of physiognomy, which is the idea that you can tell all kinds of things about a “person’s character or personality from their ...
5 Famous Social Scientists and Why They Matter
Dec 2, 2011 · The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
Does Social Media Make People Less Social?: A Research Note
Jan 3, 2018 · In last week’s much-anticipated conversation between Barack Obama and Prince Harry, the pair turned to the topic of social media.Here’s what Obama said: “Social media is a really powerful tool for people of common interests to …