This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Given all the talk about SNAP, here's a line graph I made revealing the percentage of households receiving SNAP by race/ethnicity over time. These percentages represent millions of people in each group. Data: USDA.

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

I'm giving a talk at The Institute for Population Research tomorrow at the Ohio State University and @trevondlogan.bsky.social was my 1st meeting today. So happy to finally meet this brotha.

Kudos to this journalist for talking to actual scholars, like @docthoughts.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social who have spent years studying Black families, to bring some much needed insight.

America is so anti-Black that the idea of enslaved persons being freed sparked an entire Civil War.

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

The study of racism is the study of how, and in what ways, misinformation becomes normalized.

STATA users: Help. I have two variables (1) good health and (2) poor health. I want to combine these two variables into one variable: good health ==1 and poor health==2.

Dissertation title: The intergenerational transfer of antiBlackness in the United States, 1619-2025.

The socially constructed category "White" is about race too. But remnants of Eugenics still permeate the bowels of the social sciences, which affords you the opportunity to render that fact invisible.

If you truly understood why racial categories were invented in the first place, then you would realize that a person racialized as White saying "it's not always about race" is indicative of how they experience racism.

Looking forward to attending @popassocamerica.bsky.social next month.

I started to think more sociologically when I started reading outside of sociology. It's ironic; don't you think?!

It took me a while to realize this but the "Moving to Opportunity" project is rooted in racial essentialism. That's why I have a hard time grappling with those studies.

If a scholar gives an hour presentation about inequality by focusing on people racialized as Black, then you ask a question about people not racialized as Black, that's a form of antiBlackness.

I strongly dislike when people are talking about intersectionality and they reduce it to identities. Here's why. youtu.be/uPtz8TiATJY?...

We need to talk about the intersections of Whiteness and paternalism in academia.

Jealousy is just confused admiration.

My research is not about social categories; rather, my work focuses on the processes and mechanisms that make social category salient in the first place. There's a difference.

Are there "go-to" articles on measuring race, measuring gender, and measuring sexuality?

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Great population health postdoc opportunity at the University of Minnesota. 🛟sociology demography 😷policysky polisky health policy PhDsky academicsky 📉

sometimes you fight for a seat at the table only to realize the food is nasty.

A few years ago I moved away from saying "White people" or "Black people," etc to saying "people racialized as ..." because race categories are settlers' tools. We cannot adequately address racial inequality by using the very tools settlers created to justify inequality.

1/3 This year, I'll be writing more about "social sciences, Whiteness, and the assumption of universalism."

Many scholars were told "race is socially constructed" but never taught why, and for what purpose, race was socially constructed.

What if I told you that there is no such thing as "neighborhood effects." Instead, there are federal, state, county level "neighborhood disinvestment effects."

“Sims offers a powerful tool for understanding & combating racism … This book is a must read for any person who takes racism & the social construction of race seriously.” Deadric Williams @docthoughts.bsky.social reviews Jenn Sims’s new book in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity tinyurl.com/mryr3bw4

Check out our new Center where I serve as director. artsci.utk.edu/research-and...

The great Bluesky migration is happening.

Do you need a keynote speaker for Black History month? If so, book me! For the past 3 years, I have delivered keynote addresses for Black History month. Your organization can be the 4th!

I gave the endowed lecture on "Structural AntiBlackness and Persistent Racial Inequality" at the University of Buffalo's Department of Surgery.

If people really knew WHY racial categories exist in the first place, then antiCRT and the exclusion of Black history from school curriculum should come as no surprise. Because they are, in effect, doing the same things.

Politico invited me to be on the "roundtable of experts" on marriage in the US. check it out 👇🏾 www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Check out this important new paper by Deadric Williams that conceptualizes racial disparities as more than just between group differences. #sociology #academicsky

I'm thankful to the @wtgrantfdn as these two papers are made possible because I'm a @wtgrantfdn scholar. Scholars of color need resources (money and time) to think and write. I'm fortunate to have the necessary resources.

🚨new pub alert🚨 I'm making the argument that racial disparities are not mere statistical differences between racialized groups. Instead, racial disparities reflect "racism manifested" in the lives of Americans. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Almost ready! Forthcoming...👇🏾

Coming soon...

I have a forthcoming paper that I'm nervous about. Because I'm challenging scholars to rethink the idea of "racial disparities." I hope scholars engage it.

I have an accepted manuscript I'm really excited about. It builds on my paper in JFTR.

I'm on here!