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It’s been a difficult summer and I’ve done my best to try to ensure that SocImages is contributing to the many important conversations we’ve had. I’m grateful for the many guest bloggers who have helped. I’ll summarize the relevant posts here, throwing in June as well since I missed that month’s update.

Sociological perspectives on this summer’s current events:

Brexit

• What motivated the leave?
• A woman steps out onto the “glass cliff”: Theresa May to lead the UK

The Republican race

• Why is nationalism dangerous?
• Trump supporters substantially more racist than other Republicans
• Sense of political disenfranchisement strongly predicts support for Trump
• Is Michelle jealous of Melania? Catty stereotypes and racist cartoons

The Democratic race

• Why Bill was the face of Hillary’s historic nomination: Numbers and theories
• Clinton has received the most negative, least positive news coverage

Gun control

• Will the Democratic sit-in for gun control work? A measured consideration

The Orlando massacre

• Queer-Orlando-América
• The intersectionality of hate: Violence against LGBTQ people of color
• Orlando and the symbolic importance of gay bars

Black Lives Matter

• When force is hardest to justify, victims of police violence are most likely to be black
• The reverse Ferguson effect: Which way to point the causal arrow?
• Early research on police body cameras suggestst that they reduce violence

Brock Turner’s sentence for sexual assault

• 36 hours, four violent men, and one American ideology
• Brock Turner and the revolving sexual assault scandal door

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Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Why are relations between black America and the police so fraught? I hope that this collection of 50 posts on this topic and the experience of being black in this country will help grow understanding. See, also, the Ferguson syllabus put together by Sociologists for Justice, the Baltimore syllabus, and this summary of the facts by Nicki Lisa Cole.

Race and policing:

• Race and gun laws in practice
• When force is hardest to justify, victims of homicide by police are most likely to be black
• The failure of racial profiling
• Stand Your Ground increases racial bias in “justifiable homicide” trials
• In simulations, people are quicker to shoot at people perceived as black
• The war on blacks: Arrests for marijuana possession
• NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy

Perceptions of black men and boys as inherently criminal:

• Framing children’s deviance
• Race, clothes, and perceptions of criminality
• Who’s afraid of young, black men?
• Whose deviance do we notice?
• Media portrayals of Mark Duggan and Mike Brown
• Racial bias and media coverage of violent crime

Proof that Americans have less empathy for black people:

• The racial empathy gap
• The death penalty, race, and the victim
• Can black men be sexually assaulted?
• Racial disparity in imprisonment inspire whites to be tough on crime
• Failure to understand when non-white people distrust the police

Evidence of the consistent maltreatment, misrepresentation, and oppression of black people in every part of American society:

• Racial wealth gaps that harm black children
• Fetishization and mocking of black women’s bodies
• The portrayal of black women as ugly
• Racism kills: New data on stress and mortality
• Racial differences in childhood asthma
• An elite university degree does not protect against racism
• Race and pre-term births
• Race and the initiation of treatment for breast cancer
• Racial bias in presidential pardons
• Racial bias in law firms
• Nearly half of black scientists mistaken for janitors or assistants
• Racism in ballet
• Racist antics at college parties, a collection
• Race, criminal records, and employment
• Percent of children with a parent in prison, by race
• Racial minorities have to wait longer at the polls
• Cultural invisibility: What color is “flesh”?
• Race, education, and earning potential
• College graduation and unemployment among blacks vs. whites
• Special education eligibility by race and region
• Black churches still going up in flames
• Whites, blacks, and kidney failure
• Racial bias in jury selection
• Whiteness as the standard of beauty
• White vigilantes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
• Distrust for black entrepreneurs
• Racialized representations of evolution
• Black invisibility in Hollywood
• Black/white disparities in prison sentences
• The children of the prison boom
• The sudden convergence of addiction treatment and whiteness
• And murder

On violent resistance:

• Angela Davis: “No idea what black people have gone through.”
• Stokely Carmichael: “The U.S. taught us very well how to be violent.”
• Malcolm X: “We’re nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.”

The situation now:

• “How much do you think people can take?”
• Zimmerman’s acquittal hurt race relations
• Race and beliefs about the ongoing fight for civil rights
• Many Americans overestimate and fear racial diversity
• 150 years of racism: Attitudes in the American South
• The average white American’s social network is 1% black

W.E.B. DuBois (1934):

The colored people of America are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do not like them, and are planning neither for their survival, nor for their definite future if it involves free, self-assertive modern manhood. This does not mean all Americans. A saving few are worried about the Negro problem; a still larger group are not ill-disposed, but they fear prevailing public opinion. The great mass of Americans are, however, merely representatives of average humanity. They muddle along with their own affairs and scarcely can be expected to take seriously the affairs of strangers or people whom they partly fear and partly despise.

For many years it was the theory of most Negro leaders that this attitude was the insensibility of ignorance and inexperience, that white America did not know of or realize the continuing plight of the Negro.  Accordingly, for the last two decades, we have striven by book and periodical, by speech and appeal, by various dramatic methods of agitation, to put the essential facts before the American people.  Today there can be no doubt that Americans know the facts; and yet they remain for the most part indifferent and unmoved.

– From A Negro Nation Within a Nation

Thank you all for a truly fantastic year!

We rounded it out with more than six and a half million page views.  We almost doubled our Facebook followers — from 35,000 last December to more than 68,000 today. We are honored to enjoy over 21,000 Twitter followers, 13,000 on Pinterest and 20,000 on our one-year-old Tumblr page.  Much gratitude to everyone for your enthusiasm and support!

Highlights:

Two of us published textbooks!

• Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions, coauthored by myself and Myra Marx Ferree. I started accounts for it on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest and you’re, of course, welcome to join.
• Frequent contributor Philip Cohen is also super proud to announce his new book, The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change.

What else!

• Our 7th birthday happened.
• We were Tumbld by Wil Wheaton! And that post — about how activists are motivated by logic, not emotion — was liked or tumbled over 50,000 times!
• A SocImages post got me interviewed at NPR.
• Sezin Koehler’s post on gender and nudity on HBO made TV Guide.
• We shared a 7-year-old girl’s letter to Lego about the lack of adventure to girls, sent to us by her parent, and it struck a nerve. It was covered by dozens of major news outlets.
• We recieved the 2014 award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources from the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
• We made two new Pinterest pages: Pinkwashing Ridiculousness and Racist Antics at High Schools and Colleges (see them all here).

I’ve also signed contracts to write two more books, one on hookup culture and a Introduction to Sociology text. I’m excited to keep writing!

Best of 2014!

Over the last week I’ve highlighted my favorite and your most loved posts from 2014.  Here’s are the lists in case you missed it last week!

Reader’s Choice (plus # of likes/shares before we re-posted)

• When force is hardest to justify, victims of police homicide are most likely to be black (24,700+)
• #instagrammingafrica: The narcissism of global tourism (17,300+)
• Teachers offered personal loans to buy school supplies (15,000+)
• What do professors do all day? (11,400+)
• Doing gender with the face, featuring Erika Linder (6,900+)
• How to change the world one shrug at a time (5,900+)
• Snickers mocks the idea that men can respect women (5,400+)
• Concern for equality linked to logic, not emotion (5,100+)
• A little theory of homophobia (5,000+)
• In employers’ eyes, for-profit colleges are equivalent to high school (4,300+)
• How to lie with statistics: Stand Your Ground and gun deaths (4,200+)
• The sexual politics of veganism (2,700+)
• U.S. schools teach children that Native Americans are history (2,700+)

Most loved humor!

• Marx, Weber, and Durkheim on a tree falling in the forest… (5,000+)
• Girl pants: No pockets, no justice (2,800+)
• Muggle Studies and Defense Against the Dark Arts (1,600+)
• Statistically significant others (1,500+)
• Academic writing MadLib (1,300+)
• How professors argue (1,100+)
• Confirmation bias expert convinced everyone suffers from confirmation bias (1,100+)
• The best thesis defense is a good offense (1,000+)

Editor’s picks

• That’s fishy: From scent to suspicion and back
• “Trophy scarves”: Race, gender, and the woman as prop trope
• What sociologists can tell us about serial killing
• A reluctant defense of sunscreen for men
• Girl-on-girl action: A new visual landscape
• Cuteness-inspired aggression is actually a thing
• A proper entrance: Creole culture and the front door
• How the bird hat craze almost killed the dinosaurs… and inspired the Audubon Society
• Reading the camouflage: “You are now enemy combatants”
• The baby dolls of Mardi Gras

Happy New Year everyone!  Here’s to wonderful things in 2015!

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.