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Wendy Thompson Taiwo on June 3, 2021
Today, The Society Pages reposts this original essay, written last summer as part of the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written by social scientists with ties to the metro area …
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Walt Jacobs on May 25, 2021
Today, in honor of the one-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd, The Society Pages reposts Walt Jacob’s introduction to the Wonderful/Wretched series. Wonderful/Wretched is a collection of twenty-one essays on the racial dynamics of the Twin Cities written …
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Brooke Chambers, Jillian LaBranche, and and Nikoleta Sremac on January 20, 2021
Since the January 6 Assault on Capitol Hill, scholars, reporters, and politicians have tried to make sense of the violent insurrection. Many draw from fundamental sociological lessons to make sense of violence, place it in historical context, and …
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Richie Zweigenhaft on October 28, 2020
Man adjusting tie knot. Image via Pixabay, CC0. Back in 1963, when her husband committed suicide, Katherine Graham took over The Washington Post, the newspaper her father had founded. When the Washington Post made the Fortune 500 list …
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Libby Trudeau on October 22, 2020
Photo of a laptop, mostly shut, in the dark. Image via Pixabay, CC0. An online hoax claiming Wayfair furniture company is selling children goes viral. The hashtag #saveourchildren begins to trend, urging us all …
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Nikoleta Sremac on October 14, 2020
A woman prepares to fire a gun at a gun range. While gun violence in the US has been covered widely in the media in recent years, surprisingly little attention has been …
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Francesca Polleta on September 17, 2020
Making friends isn’t necessary for solving America’s divisions This article is republished from the Conversation, read the original article here. Amid two crises – …
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Walter R. Jacobs on August 31, 2020
Image from the promotional materials for the film A Wrinkle in Time. CC-BY-NC-ND. Friday, August 28, 2020 was a day filled with detours from my planned activities. It started with a rabbit hole trip through …
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Walter R. Jacobs on August 5, 2020
The reconstructed I-35 bridge. Photo by Bradford Everett via Flickr. Recently my 84 year-old father told me that he has vivid memories of hearing the news of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, even though …
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Anna DalCortivo on August 3, 2020
Author through the lens of a bike mirror photographing BLM street art in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. The Wonderful/Wretched Memories of Racial Dynamics in the Twin Cities, Minnesota special feature publishes stories of …
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