Prudence Carter (she/her)
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Any university that allows snipers on the roof of campus buildings in response to a nonviolent student protest is not place of higher learning.
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Read the details. The 140K jobs cut in December were *all* held by Black women and Latinas.
US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, according to the latest jobs report. Women accounted for all the losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000.
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I am tripping over the fact that the majority opinion allows for race-conscious decisions in military academies. So, underrepresented minorities can have the “opportunity” to fight and die for this nation but not create economic, scientific, health, cultural & other endeavors.
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There’s much angst about our children being “left behind,”
not learning “enough” during a pandemic. Standards and goalposts for learning are socially constructed; they are malleable. More knowledge can be acquired later in life. We may have to adjust our sensibilities to survive.
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Dr. Gay: What you were subjected to was not right and never will be. Harvard lost a leader with incredible promise. May you recover from this traumatic event and be liberated. No institution can ever define your worth. Thank you for your willingness to serve. Peace be with you.
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Today I withdrew my acceptance of an honor and invitation from an institution in the state of Florida. The governor (presidential candidate) and legislature have made it clear that they have no regard for civil rights and liberties.
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The first time in 151 years that a justice was confirmed without a single vote from the minority party...
#AmyConeyBarrettSCOTUS
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There is dignity in protest.
Black members of Mississippi's senate walk out of the chamber before the final vote on a bill to ban teaching critical race theory in schools and universities. The vote passed.
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I am convinced now more than ever that all educators should be required to study and know something about human development, especially about the developmental stage of the students whom we teach.
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The gavel has been passed. It’s my honor to serve as the 2022-23 President of the American Sociological Association.
2021-2022 ASA President Cecilia Menjívar
@menjivar_ceci
@ucla
passes the gavel to 2022-2023 ASA President Prudence Carter
@prudencelcarter
@BrownSociology
at
#ASA2022
.
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Imo, you know what’s a civil rights issue: testing schoolchildren under pandemic conditions that exacerbate already existent opportunity gaps in education. Federal and state governments should waive standardized tests in 2021.
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The audacity of those given opportunities for centuries because of skin color and gender privilege challenging access to opportunity to those excluded systematically for equally as long because of their skin color and gender
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To live in a society where human life is revered more than human capital is my vision.
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Some news. I look forward to working with you, VP-elect
@mignon_moore
. Congratulations!
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2021 ASA elections. Join us in congratulating 2022-2023 President Prudence Carter
@prudencelcarter
,
@UCBerkeley
, and Vice President Mignon Moore
@mignon_moore
,
@BarnardCollege
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I’m having all kinds of thoughts and feelings about the characterization of debates about LGBTQ+ individuals’ right to existence and full humanity as “culture wars.” I mean…would we have described the 3/5th Compromise as such?
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Being told that if my university matched a salary from an offer at another university, then I would be the highest paid professor at that level. But it was fine for a white male to have that distinction.
#BlackintheIvory
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💭 while walking the streets of downtown LA: I wish that more of us (sociologists) did more and move beyond describing social problems by helping to solve them. The inequality, poverty, mental health, addiction, pain and suffering are astounding.
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Jim Crow 3.0
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How can the United States ever attain educational equity without a *full* reckoning of racial injustice and its history with slavery, settler colonialism, xenophobia, etc.? The proactive erasure of history in itself perpetuates racism and racial inequality.
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Imo, achievement gap, deficit, and loss discourses have done more harm to students & communities than any other in the past 40 years. They render learning as a competition. Education’s main utility is narrow, implied mainly for getting a good job as a properly socialized people.
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I’m shouting so loudly right now. 🗣 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 🙌🏾👏🏾👋🏾🥳😍
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youth leaders from Chicago & Parkland meet to discuss gun violence
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The fixation on grades and tests under these extraordinary life-threatening conditions—a nearly yearlong pandemic—is mind-boggling. What worth or meaning do grades even have under these circumstances?
How is remote learning going so far this year as we head into the Thanksgiving break, roughly three months into the school year? A roundup of reports from around the country:
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Another chapter has ended. Grateful for the journey and now a new beginning
@BrownSociology
@BrownUniversity
as the Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor. 🙏🏾
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My terminal degree (aka PhD) is no match for the skills it takes to teach a kindergartner for the past 10+ weeks.The consummate patience, creativity, and dynamic engagement it requires, coupled with the demands of my day job, have me whipped. I thank you, America’s teachers. 🙌🏾🙏🏾
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I am grateful for the honor and look forward to it. Thank you,
@AERA_EdResearch
.
Prudence L. Carter (
@prudencelcarter
), dean and professor of
@BerkeleyGse
, and national expert on inequality in education, has been selected by AERA to present the 2019
#AERABrownLecture
in
#EdResearch
! Read the press release: .
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What a loss to sociology, history and education! *The Mississippi Chinese* and *Lies My Teacher Told Me* are two of the best books ever for teaching and learning. May his work live on. RIP 🕊Sociologist James W. Loewen Dies at 79
@ASAnews
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What’s next for me? After June 30, when I step down, I will return to my scholarship, teaching and research and will join the faculty
@BrownSociology
on July 1. I look forward to returning the East Coast to my beloved alma mater.
#evertrue
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BIG NEWS: Welcome back to the University of California, newly appointed President, Dr. Michael Drake, who’s also the first African American in its 152-year history.
This just in: The University of California Board of Regents have announced the appointment of Michael V. Drake, M.D., as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system. Learn more:
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Today was my first back in the classroom and department as a full-time professor and I feel gooooooood! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
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Here’s an idea: instead of saying to someone: “I don’t wish that I had your job/position,” consider “I appreciate (or am grateful) that you took on the challenge of this tough job/position.” See the difference? Affirmation & gratitude, not discouragement, reinforce commitment.
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I have no interest in any task force, projects, etc. about either diversity or systemic anti-black racism today. Non-Black critical-thinking allies, while I am willling to support, it’s on you to do your own political homework and emotional labor to eradicate this problem.
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@eveewing
, This is a brilliant interview. Brava! Exemplifying how a scholar should speak to a broader audience. 👏🏾- Breaking Down Structural Racism with "Ghosts in the Schoolyard" - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Video Clip) | Comedy Central
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Today I facilitated my last faculty meeting as Dean of
@BerkeleyGse
. I am quite proud of the School’s accomplishments over the last five years. The school will be in good hands with an experienced interim Dean.
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So important for us not to conflate race and class and use the former as a proxy for the latter. Many middle and upper class families of color, like mine, are also looking for educational alternatives for our children this fall. I’m looking at “hubs” and “pods,” too. 1/4
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Some news. It’s been an enlightening and growthful journey
@BerkeleyGse
, and I am so proud of what we accomplished together. I will give the next 15 months my best, too. Thank you. ✨🙏🏾✨
We have some news to share.
@prudencelcarter
will be stepping down as Dean at the end of her term 06/30/21. We are grateful for her bold leadership and thrilled that she will return
@UCBerkeley
as a full-time faculty member 07/01/22 after a sabbatical.
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First day of school: first grader’s laptop failed to produce sound, a faulty mic. I gave him *my* computer to log back on. I have a tablet and phone as backup. May have to buy another computer. Thinking about all the families without extra computers or resources to troubleshoot.
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Sadly many men have proudly professed to be
#girldads
in the last weeks, but then it doesn’t take much for them to agree with & make misogynistic comments about women. We’re in great need of a movement to raise
#feministboys
. Doing my best to become a
#feministboyparent
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I just want to know whether the
@nytimes
has ever sold out of copies of its magazine like it has for
#1619Project
. Now, we must wait to get copies.
@nhannahjones
, you did that! Thank you and all contributors for educating the world!
#400Years
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Being on a half dozen service committees before you realized it—“the diversifier”—and having your scholarly productivity questioned as you labored on the university’s and department’s behalf.
#BlackintheIvory
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@bibbleco
You’re correct: “These are net numbers... Of course many men lost their jobs in December, too — but when taken together as a group, they came out ahead, whereas [Latina and Black] women fell behind.” Brackets mine.
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Sociologist
@zeynep
was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
@BrownUniversity
today, & we
@BrownSociology
were happy to welcome and congratulate her for our outstanding contributions to the discipline and society on the social impacts of technology and science.
@ASAnews
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My proposed theme and statement for the 2023 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association to be held in Philadelphia, PA…Join us and let’s be bolder and more transformative in thought, debate, and research directions together.
President-elect Prudence L. Carter
@prudencelcarter
has chosen “The Educative Power of Sociology” as the theme for the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting. Details:
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I am waiting for a debate moderator who actually considers education as critical a sector/institution of society to discuss as the economy and healthcare.
No questions on the shutdown of the nation’s school system and the millions of kids with essentially no current access to organized education.
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None of us is perfect. We are all works in progress. Even those of us who aspire for the beloved community commonly participate in the vile and perverse. And yet we evolve because circumstances and context demand it.
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The science confirms what I believe & will risk losing family and friends over. Boys don’t have to watch or play football, shoot guns, or play harmful sports to be boys. They can cry, enjoy the arts, gardening, dolls and many other so-called feminine things and still be boys.
Further evidence that men must change: "'Traditional Masculinity' Is Harmful to Boys, Men, American Psychological Association Says | National News | US News
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Congratulations to my dear colleague and mentor, Linda Darling-Hammond whom Gov Gavin Newsome has named as head of the CA State Board of Education! I can think of no other ed researcher and policy expert who has dedicated themselves more to public education.
@LDH_ed
@GavinNewsom
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It’s my first day back in the classroom with undergraduates
@UCBerkeley
after five years away, and I couldn’t be more happy. Teaching and engaging with the next generation of thinkers and doers is a critical part of my mission.
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I wasn’t able to be there in person, but I thank
@theCAAASA
for presenting me with the W.E.B. Dubois Higher Education Award for excellence in education.
@BerkeleyUnified
Superintendent Evans hand delivered it me. Thank YOU all so much.
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Today I asked my students to share their mobility stories. When I hear how much some of us must overcome to gain some modicum of success. Whew! For the first time in 20 years I nearly broke down in class. It shouldn’t be that hard for us to live, be educated, vote, have respect.
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“Education is not a panacea” [to solve the nation’s inequality], argues economist
@DarrickHamilton
. And he lays out why.
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A word of appreciation at the end of an eventful week: Thank you all for the well wishes regarding the ASA election. Every word meant so much, and I am moved by the outpouring.❤️🙏🏾
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Aldon Morris just gave one of the most extraordinary lectures that I have heard in my entire scholarly career. Rich, comparative, truly intersectional race, class, gender analyses from a macro-historical, -economic, and -social perspective. Fantastic and bravo! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Teaching how to problem solve in any organization and institution where a diversity of thought exists is a great skill to cultivate.
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Yes, she is young, gifted, Black, and strong. But
@nhannahjones
should not have to fight this battle alone. I really hope that thinkers with any sensibility for racial justice, who revile anti-blackness, will not visit that campus until they correct this.
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Whatever civics curriculum is now taught in schools will need to be revised. The democratic process has eroded & there’s no need to have our teachers lying to our students about how
#Congress
works.
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The reach and power of a phenomenal teacher. Teachers matter. Respect them and see here why supporting them matters.
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As a practicing Christian (born and raised), I want to live in a multicultural, multi-faith democracy, not a conservative Christian-dominant theocracy.
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Solidarity with all parents and educators who may have to explain and discuss *the slap* with their children/students today. I did my best. 🤦🏾♀️
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The principal investigators of some of the nation’s largest data defend the academic integrity of Professor Christina Cross:
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The justices evaluate race from very different perspectives. The conservative justices take an ahistorical approach, centering individualism , while the liberal justices focus on group-based outcomes stemming by from historical and and systemically unequal forces.
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.
@staceyabrams
is making her way into the pantheon of greats alongside Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm and other sisters and mothers of the movement.
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Significant implications for schooling here 👇🏾
A new CDC analysis of children hospitalized for the coronavirus finds:
• 1 in 3 was admitted to the ICU
• Black kids were 5 times as likely as white kids to be hospitalized
• Hispanic kids were about 8 times as likely as white kids to be hospitalized
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🗣: She is 9 years old! The combination of the dehumanization and adultification of Black children is pure evil.
Officials in Rochester, N.Y., have released bodycam footage of police handcuffing and pepper spraying a 9-year-old girl.
"You're acting like a child," one officer is heard yelling.
"I am a child," she responds.
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Let’s all hold some LIGHT 🕯today for our nation and for all persons whose sexual violence traumas will be revisited in the midst of the news cycle for the next several days. Peace.✨☮️✨☮️
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Know that critical race theory helps us understand why the justices make rulings that reproduce racial inequalities like these.
A STUNNING admission by the SCOTUS majority weakening the Voting Rights Act.
The six justices say that disparate racial impacts of many voting rules are OK because of differences in "employment, wealth, and education" among races.
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2019 is here. A major milestone year. Three aspirations: speaking and standing more in truth and justice in every facet of life; communicating it better; and realizing effective, productive solutions. Happy New Year to all! 💥🎉✨
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Thank you, Philadelphia, for everything. A city known as the “cradle of democracy” and one of “brotherly love” was a most appropriate and hospitable locale for
#ASA2023
. ⭐️⭐️
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Antiblackness is a cultural disregard and disgust with the Black body. It’s a denial of humanity and the full citizenship and regard within the polity. -Michael Dumas (2016:12)
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Moved deeply. What a tremendous honor!
We will miss
@prudencelcarter
as she steps down as dean. Chancellor Christ, EVCP Alivisatos presented her with the Berkeley Citation, for contributions to
@UCBerkeley
that go beyond the call of duty + achievements exceeding standards of excellence in their fields.
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They keep killing our youth, our babies. It’s too much. 🥲💔
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Most modern social scientists have been trained with a profound social fact: that the concept of “race” is a social construction. With an immense body of research on our side, many of us will challenge fiercely any claims made by those who propose that race has a genetic basis.
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My 6-year old has requested this book-which I discovered on the deeply discounted sale rack at a local independent bookstore—for bedtime reading every night the past several days. Youth have led throughout history.
#LettheChildrenMarch
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By reducing the struggle for human rights,recognition and inclusion in social institutions to “culture wars,” we risk potentially the denial of self-determination for any group that doesn’t meet the “definition” of white, male, Christian, heterosexual, Republican…
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Cory Booker aside, Democrats stranded Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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It was an honor for to give the 2019
#AERABrownLecture
. Thank you to all who came out and/or live-streamed. I appreciate the generous feedback, too.
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I thought that I had insured that my son had everything that he needed. He waited until I spoke to come in. The challenge of being solo parent today…🤦🏾♀️
The macro is not sustained without what happens at the meso and micro levels. A child showed up behind
@prudencelcarter
and I love them! Hello, child! How exciting to be hearing all this! How exciting to hear how provincial our discipline is because we don’t consider the globe.
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The
@NFL
decision is not only a violation of free speech but also a sign of overt racism and hypocrisy. White nationalists can march on city streets & college campuses, exercising rights to spew hate but Black athletes can’t protest police violence & anti-blackness.
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Whew! Another week of redoing 1st grade and serving as a teacher’s aide on top of 100 other responsibilities. Hats off to all of those who know. Happy long weekend! 🥂
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Enslaved persons in the secessionist states of the confederacy were freed under the
#EmancipationProclamation
on January 1, 1863. Enslaved persons in Texas did not receive official word of their freedom until June 19, 1865—2.5 years later.
#Juneteenth
commemorates the latter.
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FL passed a law, which it violates inherently. The law requires lessons on race to be taught in “an objective manner,” & not “used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.” Sanitized versions of history fail both criteria.
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How many social science profs. really take the time to teach the genealogy of a framework, concept or idea? Many of us (consider me guilty too) coin new terms ideas generated by prior thinkers but bc we hadn’t either read or been taught the work, we think we “discovered” it.
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why I am a strong proponent of true racial and economic integration in schools and neighborhoods
JUST IN: 2 local friends see each other unexpectedly on the street in New York City
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Imagine when a critical part of a job interview includes numerous microaggressions,100s of power-paper cuts, and you are expected to simply sit, grin and bear it…if you want that job, that is. There’s agency, sure. The US opportunity structure is constitutively that vile.
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It’s been an honor and a privilege to serve
@ASAnews
. The gavel is now passed to incoming president,
@JoyaMisra
. Congratulations!
2023 ASA President Prudence Carter
@prudencelcarter
passing the gavel to 2024 ASA President Joya Misra
@JoyaMisra
at
#ASA2023
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Interesting and unsurprising, sociologically: how US adults poll on school re-openings by race/ethnicity, SES, & political party affiliation
@pewresearch
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When I was a jr scholar, a senior colleague said as I worried about navigating academe, “Just keep your head down and do your work.” This was the most helpful professional advice I’ve ever received. Just bring your A game: do your best, and it will pay off.
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I hope that when it comes to solving the other problems of racism and anti-blackness—e.g.,poverty & joblessness, poor healthcare, unequal education, unaffordable housing & segregation—that the magnitude of protests for change with radical policies & programs will be like this.
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Most don’t know that I am an avid travel reviewer—hotels and restaurants around the world mainly and not under my actual name. I often laugh to myself that if I had the number of readers for my academic writing as I do for my reviews, I’d likely have a different reality.😇
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In reading the decision, it appears that Justice Jackson’s dissenting opinion in the UNC case has really triggered some strong defensive responses from Justice Thomas. Their arguments exemplify the significant differences b/w group and system-based vs. individualistic ones.
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Local school district rolled out online curricular plans for the fall.I have no idea how to both work & supervise a first grader. A challenge for parents w/privilege who can work from home. Should we alter our orientation to work? Even if, how does that minimize educ. inequality?
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