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A basic demographic fact about the United States is that, on average, White people live longer than Black people. But what, concretely, does this fact mean? This talk argues that social science has three families of strategy for making sense of the size of mortality disparities — distribution-based, action-based, and…
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Because African Americans are more likely to borrow from payday lenders (PDLs), some have speculated that they have more positive attitudes toward the lenders than other groups. But PDLs have also been shown to be disproportionately located in African American neighborhoods, and spatial exposure may contribute to attitudes…
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Crises have a way of revealing things. Who we are. What we value. Whose lives matter. In this talk, Eric Klinenberg draws on his new book, 2020, to shed light on what happened to New York City in a year when nothing was certain and everything was at stake. From school closures to essential workers, the movement for Black…
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A series of high-profile incidents of police violence against Black citizens over the past decade, has spawned a contentious public debate in the USA on the role of police. This debate has played out prominently in the news media and has led to a perception that media outlets have become more critical of the police. There…
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In this talk, I explore labor narratives and imaginaries of Black masculinity to explore how racialized ideals of manhood shifted in response to changing capitalist regimes. Complemented by an analysis of Black masculinity vis-à-vis capitalist processes of production, consumption, and commodification, I examine colonialism…
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In October 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate. Reports linked the murder to the Saudi crown prince and revealed the use of Pegasus, an Israeli-developed spyware, to monitor Khashoggi's associates. How does technology originated in the Israeli military end up in Saudi Arabia?…
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In the U.S. (and virtually all modern social systems), a long-standing objective has been to build an open society in which everyone – regardless of their class, race, ethnicity, or gender – has the opportunity to lead a fulfilling life. The extent to which societies are indeed open in this sense has, however,…