Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder (review)
- W. Byrd
- History
- 6 June 2014
Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide
- James Ainsworth, J. Golson, Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, W. Byrd
- Education, Sociology
- 2013
The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. The field draws contributions from…
Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
- W. Byrd
- Education
- 24 November 2017
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome
- W. Byrd
- Sociology
- 21 July 2016
centralized process of constructing a coherent discourse of classification and evaluation that is promoted by official ideology. This chapter demonstrates that the observable policies of authorities…
Racial Authenticity and Familial Acceptance Among Transracial Adoptees: A Bothersome Bargain of Belonging
- Devon R. Goss, W. Byrd, M. Hughey
- Sociology
- 1 May 2017
Transracial adoption in the United States has increased significantly in recent years. Crossing the color line within the intimate familial sphere has important implications for how institutions such…
Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong about the Struggle for Racial Justice
- W. Byrd
- PsychologyContemporary Sociology
- 1 March 2019
Implicit bias is everywhere and in everyone. Scholarly and popular discussions about biases occur every day. College students and interested laypeople participate in Harvard’s Project Implicit by…
Conflating Apples and Oranges: Understanding Modern Forms of Racism
- W. Byrd
- Sociology
- 1 November 2011
Social scientists generally agree that the post-Civil Rights form of racism is different from that which existed in the Jim Crow-era in the United States. However, beyond this agreement, what exactly…
The vitality of social media for establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement
- W. Byrd, Keon L Gilbert, Joseph B. Richardson
- Sociology
- 12 June 2017
ABSTRACT Social media provides scholars with important portals into the lives of marginalized communities and the movements organized to combat issues of race and racism in society. However, how to…
Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism
I August 2012, nine months after being artificially inseminated using a sperm donation from the Midwest Sperm Bank of Downers grove, Illinois, a white Ohio woman named Jennifer Cramblett gave birth…
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