K Wright Sociologist, Hip Hop educator, strategist, media analyst, realist, writer, Capricorn, Black & proud..lover of life,music & people.Inquiries: utn.trust@gmail.com The Racialization of a Nation Prior to the 2012 election, I posted a blog titled 2012: A Year of Reckoning,

The Association of Black Sociologists expresses its deep outrage at the enslavement of Black Africans in Libya. This tragedy has been brought home forcefully with recent media images of slave markets openly engaging in the auctioning of Black African refugees. Anti-Blackness remains the

Statement by the President of the Association of Black Sociologists “[W]e are ready for the lifetime of work and struggle before us.” Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) The ancestral and philosophical mandate of Black sociology is Black liberation. Yet, in many places across our

Eve L. Ewing Postdoctoral Scholar University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration In his widely-cited 2004 Presidential Address to the American Sociological Association, Michael Buroway calls for the defense, use, and analysis of public sociology: a sociology that takes as its

Eric A. Jordan White people can’t see systemic racism, white privilege, or oppression, but they can see aliens, ghosts, the Loch Ness monster, Big Foot, and White Jesus in their morning coffee. Think about that. There are white people who would sooner believe Santa Claus and the Tooth