What Happens When Blackness Becomes Integral to the Culture of Twitter
Social media has given corporations unprecedented access to blackness online, but the relationship is one of consumption without credit.
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Why Are Asian Americans Missing From Our Textbooks?
Ethnic studies classes are slowly gaining traction in elementary and secondary education, but Asian Americans still remain largely…
Identity Is Lost Without A Moral Compass
Research on neurodegenerative diseases suggests that, more than anything else, moral traits like kindness and integrity define who we are.
The Stories We Tell: Adopting From a Troubled Country
Adele Barker brought Noah home from Paraguay in 1987. Now, 28 years later, she’s not sure whose story is accurate. Can we ever really know?
What Political Parties Talk About When They Talk About Groups
Republicans talk about ideology and Democrats talk about groups—but they may be talking about the same thing.
Mounting a Critique of Online Identity, in Person
Physically co-present with the sociologist Nathan Jurgenson during a break from his battle to dismantle the artificial barrier we’ve raised between life online and in the outside world.
All Snowflakes Look the Same
After I moved to Wisconsin to pursue an education, other people’s racial perceptions began to pursue me.
The First Death of an Athlete
By choice or by circumstance, exiting sport is inevitable. What happens after is less certain.
Even in Sports, You Are What You Eat
To cheer for a team, or a sport, is to become part of a larger social phenomenon. Food is another—important—part of that shared identity.
Lumbersexuals and White Heteromasculine Pageantry
Hybrid configurations of masculinity enable young, straight, white men to distance themselves from what they might perceive as something akin to the stigma of privilege.