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Video of Anti-Muslim Protest in Orange County
Some of you may have heard about the anti-Muslim protest outside a charity event in Orange County on February 13th. A local chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Relief, a Muslim...
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“God is Subtle”: A Humble Reading of the Koran
Via Bruce Jacobs, Lesley Hazleton describes her experience of reading the Koran, for real, for the first time: ————————— Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her...
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Comedy that Kills Us: Demonizing Arabs and Muslims in the U.S.
Comedians exercise a curious privilege, which allows them to peddle controversial conclusions and uncomfortable insights without suffering the usual scorn and admonishment that comes with challenging...
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Orientalism and the Representation of Middle Eastern Women
Cross-posted at North Atlantic Books Communities. Edward Said famously argued that the West uses the East as an inverted mirror, imagining them to be everything the West is not. In a book titled...
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Race, Sex, and Casting Hollywood Films
Race, sex, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, and veteran status are all what are called protected classes under federal law — characteristics that cannot be used as the basis for...
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Resistance to Racist Halloween Costumes
Eleven readers sent in this wonderfully simple campaign to discourage people from dressing up like racial or ethnic caricatures for Halloween. Or dressing their dogs up as such. Kudos to the STARS...
View Article“Not Quite White”: Arabs, Slavs, and Whiteness in the U.S.
A couple of years ago I posted a segment from the PBS series Faces of America focusing on the legal efforts by Syrian immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s to be officially recognized as White...
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Including Racial History in School Curricula
Way back in January, Dolores R. sent us a link to an illustration of how not to integrate social studies into the math curriculum, posted at SocialisTexan. Apparently some teachers in Gwinnett County,...
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Marketing Language: “Wraps” vs. “Tortillas”
Tanita S. sent along a link to an interesting observation made over at Whatever. John Scalzi, preparing to make lunch, noticed that he had two bags of an identical food product, except one was named...
View ArticleEvery Word Spoken in [FILM TITLE]: Movies You Have Time to Watch
A new tumblr titled Every Word Spoken posted a quote from George Gerbner that goes like this: Representation in the fictional world signifies social existence; absence means symbolic annihilation. It’s...
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The US Census and the social construction of race
Flashback Friday. Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethnicity are social constructions, not biological categories. The US government, nonetheless, has an official position on what...
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Man buns as cultural appropriation
Singer-songwriter Hozier played “guess the man buns” on VH1, and Buzzfeed facetiously claimed they had “Scientific Proof That All Celebrity Men are Hotter with Man Buns.” Brad Pitt, Chris Hemsworth,...
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On Burkini Bans and Institutional Racism
Originally posted at Racism Review. The photos capture a woman lying serenely on a pebble beach. She is unaware of the four men as they approach. They wear guns and bulletproof vests, and demand the...
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Atheists Still America’s Most Disliked Group, Now Along with Muslims
Originally posted at The Society Pages’ Discoveries. Ten years ago, sociologist Penny Edgell and her colleagues published a surprising finding: atheists were the most disliked minority group in the...
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Race, Gender, and Likes on OkCupid
Flashback Friday. Emma M.H., Rebecca A., Natalee B., Josh L., Anna M., Jordan G., and an anonymous reader all sent in a link to a new analysis released by OkTrends, this time of members’ profile essays...
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