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This week’s Clippings<\/a> by Mallory Harrington<\/a> includes Raka Ray<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Geoffrey Pleyers<\/a>\u2019 reflections on the passing of Michael Burawoy, a towering figure in public sociology whose work shaped labor studies, ethnographic methods, and the discipline as a whole. Max Besbris<\/a> commented on the rapid rebuilding of the Palisades after California\u2019s wildfires, noting that wealthy residents will dictate the terms of recovery; Aldon Morris<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Harry Edwards<\/a> weighed in on the state of the U.S. under the Trump administration, warning of potential unrest; Ulrike Bialas<\/a> discussed the crisis of young, homeless migrants in Paris; and George Kassar<\/a> applied Norbert Elias\u2019 theories on the \u201ccivilizing process\u201d to digital norms and Netiquette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summary of pieces<\/a> by us and our partners by me explores the Super Bowl\u2019s cultural significance, covering topics like politics in sports, racial disparities in NFL coaching, the concussion crisis, nationalism in football, sexism in fandom, the 2016 Take a Knee movement, masculinity in commercials, corporate influence in ads, and Super Bowl consumer habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also published a new Discovery<\/a> from research by Sarah Lageson<\/a> and Robert Stewart<\/a> on the inaccuracy of private background checks, revealing widespread false negatives and positives that impact employment, housing, and education, while calling for stronger regulation and privacy protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Trump recently signed an order<\/a>, to go in effect immediately, that bans transgender women from competing in female sports, specifically targeting the 2028 Olympic Games to be held in Los Angeles by denying Visas for transgender athletes. This Special Feature from 20<\/a>23<\/a> by Chris Knoester<\/a> highlights how the anti-trans movement in sports focus on reinvigorating sex and gender binaries, often conflating the two, while also obscuring the need for higher support for womens’ and girls’ sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, the CDC released a new report<\/a> about U.S. maternal mortality. They found that pregnancy-related deaths declined for every race or ethnic group tracked in the report except Black women. In this 2019 piece<\/a> summarizing research on the topic, Amy August<\/a> and De Andre\u2019 Beadle<\/a> discuss how Black Americans, especially women, experience worse health outcomes than white Americans, and Black women are over three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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