Blogging For (A) Change
I recently wrote on essay on blogging for Remarks, the newsletter for the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association. In it, I reflect on the reasons why I blog,...
View ArticleMy Kind of Sociology! Toward A Self-Defined Activist-Academic Career
Being forced to watch the world whirl by me as I worked on my dissertation was tortuous: two cases on same-gender marriage heard by the US Supreme Court; horrendous media coverage of an already...
View ArticleRevived: Brief Advice For Current Graduate Students
I did it again. I let the fears of professional consequences, of making enemies, of being dismissed as militant and combative lead me to self-censor. After graduating (though I finally defend my...
View ArticleOn Sexism And Sociology: Who Is Dorothy Swaine Thomas?
Most sociologists know the adage that is fundamental to (much of) sociological thought — “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” — the Thomas theorem. It is so widely...
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