The End of the Road
It appears as though we’ve come to the end of the road. It’s been a great two weeks guestblogging here, and I want to extend my deepest thanks for the thoughtful comments and active engagement. It’s truly been a pleasure. This is an excellent blog, and I hope my contribution didn’t disrupt too much from [...]
...read moreThe Reverse of Discrimination is “Not Discrimination”
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) I recently went on a road trip with my uncle, traveling from Boston to New York for my brother’s high school graduation. As we drove through western Massachusetts, our conversation eventually drifted to employment and the economy. In what would prove to be a fascinating discussion, my uncle began to [...]
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What The Notorious BIG Can Tell Us About Race and Immigration
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) In Black Identities, Harvard sociologist Mary Waters analyzes the racial and ethnic identities of first and second generation West Indian immigrants in New York City. At its core, Black Identities is a study of paradox. Waters eloquently states, “[For West Indians], America is a contradictory place…a land of greater opportunities [...]
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Racial Inequality and the Rhetoric of Responsibility
(originally published at Social Science Lite, x-posted at Postbourgie) Last Spring, Brown University economist Glenn Loury presented at Harvard sociology’s Workshop on Race and Black Youth Culture. He titled his talk “Culture, Causation and Confusion: Why Bill Cosby is Wasting His Time,” engaging with the pervasive “rhetoric of responsibility” frequently applied to blacks in the [...]
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The White Racist Meme
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) It would be an understatement to argue that the mass media has taken on racial analysis with unprecedented zeal since the election of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, in attempts to present fair and balanced news coverage, cable news programs have typically included panels with representatives from both sides of the Left-Right [...]
...read moreThis Is Where White Guilt Comes From
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) It’s funny, I never really thought too much about liberal white guilt until I came to graduate school at Harvard. Now that I’m here in Cambridge, it seems to be a reoccurring topic of conversation. I don’t know, maybe the election of Barack Obama has made us think more about [...]
...read moreThe Unintentional Effects of Seemingly Mundane Public Policy
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) Tyler Cowen, Matt Yglesias, and Ryan Avent recently engaged in a fascinating back and forth discussion regarding the role of highways in the development of contemporary American suburbs. The precise causality—did highway construction cause suburbanization?—is, of course, debatable. But the discussion points to a larger connection between metropolitan development, inequality, [...]
...read moreBeyond The Tramp Stamp
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the regular readers of Social Science Lite and Feministe cringe upon hearing the phrase “tramp stamp.” I dug through Feministe’s archives, and found this insightful post from Jill back in ’07. She wrote about an issue many of us are all too familiar [...]
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“Don’t Let Them Jesse Jackson You”
(originally published at Social Science Lite, x-posted at Postbourgie) In a New York Times article from this past summer, Jeremy Peters wrote a thought-provoking piece about the lack of visible leadership in the gay rights movement. While Peters is generally fast and loose (read: weak) with his historical analysis, his general point seems accurate: there [...]
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Ted Kennedy’s Call to Service (And How I Got Into Harvard)
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) It’s not wholly surprising, given the current political climate, that Ted Kennedy’s legacy has been framed by the mass media in relation to healthcare reform. But Kennedy’s political and public impact reached far beyond bipartisan policy legislation. For me at least, Kennedy’s most powerful (and, successful) leadership came in the [...]
...read moreAllow Me To (Re)introduce Myself
My name is Hov (Oh!), H-to-the-O-V/ I used to move snowflakes by the O-Z/ I guess even back then you can call me/ CEO of the R-O-C, Hov!… My name is Jeremy Levine, and I’ll be guest blogging here at Feministe for the next two weeks. I’m currently a graduate student in the Department of [...]
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