Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about…
American Parishes brings together contemporary data, methods, and questions to establish a sociological re-engagement with Catholic…
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
Whether it is defining Native Americans as non-citizens in 1800 or introducing a “mulatto” category in 1850, the classification of race and…
The female startup CEO was emailing again. It was the final stage of a potential funding deal with a venture capital firm, and she was…
This article studies the conditions that lead peripheral minorities to identify with the state, their ethnic group, or neighboring…
Monitors report that many elections around the world are flawed by problems of corruption and violence – sometimes both. These malpractices…
In 2017, all nine people who won the Nobel Prize in the sciences were men. Historically, 97 percent of Nobel laureates in the sciences have…