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YouTube video by USC Levan Institute for the Humanities Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School

Here is the recording of my Levan Center book chat about The High School, with Alice Echols, Jeff Montez de Oca and CJ Pascoe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUco...

📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.

Levan Book Chat—Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid

USC Levan Book Chat: Join Professor Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
@uncpress.bsky.social📖

Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

performative and anti-Black, leading to what she conceptualizes as racial equity trauma.

This paper extends the literature on racialized equity labor, performative diversity work, and racial trauma to address the specific context around the racial reckoning of 2020. Through qualitative interviews, Shawntae finds that Black faculty and staff perceived this work to be

“If not us, then who?”: black faculty and staff experiencing racial equity trauma while doing diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of the summer 2020 racial reckoning ABSTRACT. In the summer of 2020, the heightened visibility of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police catalyzed reform effort

NEW PUB📢 PhD candidate Shawntae Mitchum's new article is out now in Social Problems @socprobsjournal.bsky.social:
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Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School

USC Levan Book Chat: Join Michael A. Messner @mam52.bsky.social, professor emeritus of sociology, for a virtual discussion of his new book, The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024📖

Register for the 9/18 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

This week we welcome Professor Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social to our department colloquium!

The affective strategies of White unknowing: how police violence reveals the expression of racialized emotions on Twitter Abstract. Racism shapes the ways racialized actors and groups feel about the social world, but how does racism get reproduced through affective politics, t

📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

DUI to Deportation: What H.R. 875 Could Mean for Immigrant Communities  - USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) Data and Analysis to Power Social Change

Great new piece by three grad students who are part of @uscsociology.bsky.social and @eri-usc.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2025/09/...

Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social

Collective memory is the way that we remember history and that becomes central to our idea of who we are as a people. It’s a process of storytelling and the most central stories to who we are as a people.

So let’s talk about the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. (1/4)

Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School

Looking forward to my September 18 USC Levan Institute Book Chat about The High School with CJ Pascoe, Jeff Montez de Oca, and Alice Echols. Register for this virtual event here: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

Contributor: If tackle football isn't safe for girls, why do we let boys play? An explosion of enthusiasm for girls’ flag football has led some to wonder why we're protecting one sex while celebrating the sport's dangers for another.

Don't boys deserve the same level of protection as girls in sports? Is this a case for a universal switch to flag football?

Michael Messner, professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at USC Dornsife, writes in @latimes.com:

Sociologists are concerned about L.A. citizens during a year of unrest. Citizens in L.A have witnessed a summer of unrest including wildfire recovery, ICE raids and protests. Elisha, a video intern fo... TikTok video by The Los Angeles Times

@jodyav.bsky.social and @profmpastor.bsky.social spoke with the @latimes.com to express their concerns about how recent events are affecting L.A. citizens.
www.tiktok.com/@latimes/vid...

I'm delighted to share my new article in @readdemography.bsky.social!

Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social‬ ‪ @uscsociology.bsky.social‬ @usc.edu‬ bit.ly/POPfellows%E...

National Work-Family Policies and Gender Earnings Inequality in 26 OECD Countries, 1999 to 2019 - Jennifer L. Hook, Meiying Li, 2025 The authors investigate whether work-family policies help incorporate women into the labor market, but exacerbate the gender earnings gap and motherhood penalty...

In their recent article @sociusjournal.bsky.social‬, ASA members Jennifer L. Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social‬ ‪@usc.edu‬ & Meiying Li (Cornell U) find that long paid leave, specifically, as opposed to work-family policies, is associated w/ a larger gender earnings gap for moms.

I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.

Perceived Fairness of Couples’ Division of Housework: Evidence From a Multi-Factorial Experiment in the United States - Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch, 2025 Although the ratio of women’s to men’s housework hours has declined, women still spend more time than men doing household tasks in most high-income contexts. Th...

New paper with Daria Tisch ‪(@dariatisch.bsky.social‬) on fairness perceptions of housework divisions using a multi-factorial experiment in the U.S., now out in one of my favorite journals––Gender and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0891...

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?

Mass #surveillance in the US has historically targeted racial and ethnic minorities. Experts warn this pattern could intensify under a second Trump term, with a focus on people of color and immigrants.
@curlyprofessor.bsky.social @raqueldelerme.bsky.social @usc.edu #deportation

Check out this fascinating new project by Professor Emeritus Michael Messner.