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sociological perspectives and resources

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 21, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

Stop deportations! Stop tearing families apart!

Stop criminalizing workers and tearing families apart. Stop the deportations. Stop detaining children. Stop the inhumane profiteering of privately owned immigrant detention centers. The borders did n…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 15, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

Dangerous Ideas: MLK a year before his death

Years after formal de-segregation, Dr. King had come to argue that civil rights were not enough, and in many ways the situation for Black Americans had actually gotten worse. This speech, The Other A…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 15, 2018, 4:31 PM UTC

Did you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not killed by James Earl Ray, a Memphis Jury found in 1998... but the history books haven't changed, have they? From the New York Times: "After four weeks of testimony…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 12, 2018, 5:18 PM UTC

How the Irish became White: Part One

The images below remind us that Irish immigrants were racialized in the U.S. in the 1800s. They were dehumanized and depicted as apelike, as the blog Sociological Images points out. Harper's Weekly,…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 12, 2018, 3:26 AM UTC

Slavery's role in building the American economy

"... in 1860, 80% of the nation's Gross National Product was tied to slavery." -from Carol Anderson's White Rage

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 11, 2018, 9:31 PM UTC

Jokes about Capitalism: What do you want to be when you grow up?

I love jokes-- as a way of showing how ridiculous something like capitalism really is. Capitalism is a historically specific type of political/ social/ economic system, although many people in our so…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 3, 2018, 6:45 PM UTC

Capitalism vs. Socialism Debate

A provocative discussion we do not have often enough. Here is the video (1 hour and 20 minutes long) on C-Span: https://www.c-span.org/video/?436640-1/capitalism-socialism-debate > Capitalism is a…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 3, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

The "Privacy" of Gendered Violence

We live in a modern state obsessed with law and order and marked by unprecedented levels of mass incarceration. Yet some crimes are ignored or dismissed-- or at least enjoy a level of apparent accept…

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Power and Society
@jessij Jan 1, 2018, 1:44 AM UTC

Images of Gender in Media Advertising

Until the 1970s, it was lawful for a man to force sex on his wife even if she did not want it. Activists in the 1970s demanded the recognition of forced sex within marriage as rape. It finally achiev…

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Power and Society
@jessij Dec 31, 2017, 10:00 PM UTC

Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"

photo: sfsafehouse.org It is sometimes difficult for people to think outside of the lens of individualism. The notion of the "individual" may appear as common sense to modern Western readers, but in…

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