Abuse of Power: Why corporate domination of the U.S. food system is creating widespread hunger
By Philip H. Howard, Associate Professor of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University; and Mary Hendrickson, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia Agribusiness executives and government policymakers often praise the U.S....
Review of Trump-era coronavirus guidance confirms extensive political manipulation of pandemic response
A top-to-bottom review of Trump-era coronavirus guidance has identified public health recommendations issued under the banner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were “not primarily authored” by agency staff or backed by the best...
Capitol Coup: Fact checking Senator Ron Johnson’s effort to divert blame from White Supremacists
Senator Ron Johnson, as he predicted, got himself in trouble for saying he “never felt threatened” by those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, but he “might have been a little concerned” if they were “tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters....
Racism is still the cause of anti-Asian American violence even when not legally defined as hate crimes
By Pawan Dhingra, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Amherst College Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March 16 murders of eight people, including six Asian American women, in...
White people need not be White Supremacists to benefit from how racism still shapes American society
By Ursula Moffitt, Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Northwestern University “Stop pretending your racism is patriotism.” – Internet Meme Among the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were members of right-wing groups, including...
Stop AAPI Hate: Report documents surge of racially motivated attacks against Asian Americans
Asian Americans reported nearly 3,800 hate-related incidents during the pandemic, a number that experts believe to be just a fraction of the true total. From March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021, Asian Americans from all 50 states experienced everything ranging from...
The “Melting Pot” Narrative: Why America’s history of migration coexisted with xenophobia
Claire L. Adida, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California San Diego Adeline Lo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Lauren Prather, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California San...
Biden ends Trump-era policy punishing asylum-seekers but the trauma for countless migrants remains
By Austin Kocher, Research Associate Professor, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University The last residents of Mexico’s Matamoros refugee camp crossed the border into the United States on March 5 to request asylum. The migrants – many of them...
A Spat with the Cat: Correcting racism in children’s books is not an effort to cancel Dr. Seuss
By Kate Cantrell, Lecturer in Writing, Editing, and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland; and Sharon Bickle, Lecturer in English Literature, QLD rep for Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association, University of Southern Queensland “No one...
Falling short on police reform: The George Floyd Act would not have saved George Floyd’s life
On March 3, the House of Representatives voted to pass the George Floyd Act, named after the Black man killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin last summer. Among many reforms, the act seeks to ban racial profiling, overhaul qualified immunity for police,...
Unforeseen Consequences: 1965 crackdown on the KKK offers lesson to dismantle White Supremacists today
By David Cunningham, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Washington University in St Louis During his confirmation hearing in February, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland pledged that his first order of business would be to “supervise the prosecution of white...
Wave of voter suppression laws reveal the deep roots of Jim Crow ideology in the GOP’s drive to autocracy
“The United States of America has open wounds.” – Deborah Scott Ever since its founding, the United States has been attempting to build a society around those wounds, on the belief that hyped-up language, “all men are created equal,” can...
