race and ethnicity

The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries

Racial categories are not fixed, innate, or rooted in biological categories. At best biology can find commonalities within population clusters … Read More

As a white person, what else can I do besides post my personal outrage about racism on social media? (NOT another reading list)

I’ll save you the immediate proclamations of my privilege. The rise of such performative proclamations have not made a significant … Read More

POLICE KILLING OF BLACKS: Do Black Lives Matter?

Updated June 19, 2020, with data from 2015-2019 Data collected by the Washington Post on the … Read More

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS: A paper assignment for your class

The current administration is reportedly going to take action targeting affirmative action programs in college admissions. What better … Read More

PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH and the U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: Still disproportionally white and wealthy?

Updated April 25th, 2017 In the fall of 2014, the largest climate protest to date occurred at the People’s Climate … Read More

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: “Tell it like it is”

In 1967 (seven months before his assassination) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech to the American … Read More

SOCIOLOGISTS REFLECT ON TRUMP’S ELECTION

I and several others sociologists were recently invited to write reflective pieces on the election of Trump. You can read … Read More

SOCIOLOGY TOOLBOX: The year in review

Our mantra here at Sociology Toolbox, has never been more important: TEACH WELL, IT MATTERS. One this last day of … Read More

WHY I AM PROTESTING: Trump will not become the new normal

Protests against the outcomes of the 2016 presidential election emerged as soon as the electoral map indicated Trump’s victory. Critics … Read More

TEACHING EXCEL BASICS WITH 2016 POLICE LETHAL FORCE DATA: A resource for methods

Teaching quantitative methods and data analysis can be tedious, but I have found that using sociological and “headline-relevant” data, such as … Read More