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Welcome to the start of another month at TSP! If you need to escape the heat, you can chill out while reading about the realities of widows in the United States, Pakistan’s third gender, and how skin color and racial identity matter for how others perceive race.<\/p>\n
“Suddenly Single: A Widow\u2019s Challenge<\/a>,” by Regina Kenen<\/a>. In our latest feature, Kenen discusses her exploratory research with widows, a population that tends to be invisible in the United States.<\/p>\n “Gender, Identity, and Pakistan\u2019s \u201cThird Gender\u201d<\/a>,” by\u00a0Lucas Lynch<\/a>. In light of the recent hire of a transgender news anchor in Pakistan, we rounded up research on gender and identity in Pakistan.<\/p>\n “Skin Color, Self-Identity, and Perceptions of Race<\/a>,” by\u00a0Neeraj Rajasekar<\/a>. New research in Sociological Perspectives<\/em> finds that skin color and self-asserted racial identity influence how people perceive the racial identity of those who are multiracial.<\/p>\n “Acceptance vs. Advocacy of LGBTQ Rights<\/a>,” by Isabel Arriagada<\/a>.\u00a0In an article for the Los Angeles Times<\/em>,\u00a0Amin Ghaziani<\/a>\u00a0explains that\u00a0heterosexuals are often willing to extend \u2018formal rights\u2019 to gay couples, but they are less willing to demonstrate political engagement or material support.<\/p>\n “The Flag Fight<\/a>,” by\u00a0Evan Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “Reversing Progress: Teenage Childbearing Facing Loss of Vital Reproductive Services<\/a>,” by Frank Furstenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n Welcome to the start of another month at TSP! If you need to escape the heat, you can chill out while reading about the realities of widows in the United States, Pakistan’s third gender, and how skin color and racial identity matter for how others perceive race. Special Feature: “Suddenly Single: A Widow\u2019s Challenge,” by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17672],"tags":[33309,12722,12802],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-roundup","tag-friday-roundup","tag-roundup","tag-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}There\u2019s Research on That!<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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