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 * INTERVIEW WITH ASA IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT PRUDENCE CARTER
   
   
   BY: PRUDENCE CARTER & RAINA HACKETT & GILLIAN NIEBRUGGE-BRANTLEY
   
   
   In September 2023 staff of The Sociologist (hereafter TS) had the opportunity
   to interview Dr. Prudence Carter, who had just concluded her August 2022 -
   August 2023 term as president of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
   The interview, presented below edited for clarity, offers an insightful
   reflection on the state of the ASA, sociology, the US, and each of us as
   sociologists; and leaves one grateful for the people who serve as elected
   officers and staff of our largest professional association. TS: What
   achievement are you proudest of as ASA president? That is a harder question
   to answer than it…
   
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 * INTERSECTIONAL SOLIDARITIES: BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF HOPE, JUSTICE, AND JOY
   
   
   BY: JOYA MISRA
   
   
   Editor’s note: Dr. Joya Misra was elected 115th president of the American
   Sociological Association in Spring 2022, and became president in August 2023.
   What follows is a condensed version of a January 2023 talk she gave as
   president-elect to the District of Columbia Sociological Society, provided by
   her to The Sociologist. The theme for the 2024 American Sociological
   Association meetings is “Intersectional Solidarities: Building Communities of
   Hope, Justice, and Joy.” I believe that hope, justice, and joy are what we,
   as sociologists, need to be centering. While calls for social justice are
   more consistent within sociology, we engage less with…
   
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 * REMEMBERING A SCHOLAR, MENTOR, COLLEAGUE, AND FRIEND
   
   
   BY: GAY YOUNG
   
   
   Professor Emerita Esther Ngan-ling Chow was a member of the faculty in the
   Department of Sociology of the College of Arts and Sciences at American
   University (AU) for more than 35 years. I am honored to have been her
   colleague in the department for nearly 25 of those years. Many years ago,
   when I interviewed for the job at AU, the Arts and Sciences dean at the time
   had the practice of asking prospective faculty members a very pointed
   question: among AU faculty, whose scholarly work do you know? But that was an
   easy one for me. The answer: Esther Chow, who at…
   
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 * REMEMBERING JOHN P. DRYSDALE
   
   
   BY: PATRICIA M. LENGERMANN & GILLIAN NIEBRUGGE-BRANTLEY
   
   
   We first met John Drysdale in 1997, at the beginning of a long (but finally
   successful) struggle to establish the American Sociological Association
   Section on the History of Sociology (today the History of Sociology and
   Social Thought). The meeting came about, as did many things in John’s long
   and happy marriage, through his wife Susan Hoecker-Drysdale. She had reached
   out to recruit to our fledgling effort, and we knew her for her important
   work Harriet Martineau, First Woman Sociologist. John, like Susan, proved to
   be an invaluable supporter—deeply knowledgeable about the history of
   sociology, open to new interpretations, and committed…
   
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 * A RESEARCHER'S STORY ON UNCOVERING THE TRUTH BEHIND WIC
   
   
   BY: RAINA HACKETT
   
   
   As I write this in January 2024, Congress just passed a spending bill that
   will keep the government open until March, with another spending crisis on
   the near horizon. Due to unprecedented political polarization and, quite
   frankly, petty politicking, this has become the new normal, and as a
   congressional staffer, I have been monitoring these debates and analyzing
   their effects on the American people. Simultaneously, during the first wave
   of spending crises, I was working on research uncovering and substantiating
   the role of former Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-New York) in creating the Special
   Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants,…
   
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 * DOCUMENTARIES IN SOCIOLOGY
   
   
   BY: COURTNEY BELL
   
   
   When I started my master’s degree at American University, I told several of
   my professors that I had worked on a documentary exploring the institution of
   marriage. The response to this information was nearly always the same:
   professors would say “You know, I’ve always thought my research would make a
   great documentary, but I just have no idea where to begin.” When I entered
   the public sociology Ph.D. program at George Mason University, it was
   essentially same reaction, different faculty. As I progressed in my public
   sociology coursework, I found that almost all of my reading assignments were
   from peer-reviewed…
   
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 * HAROLD CRUSE, BLACK INTELLECTUALS, AND RECONSTRUCTING BLACK AMERICA
   
   
   BY: RUTLEDGE M. DENNIS & KIMYA NURU DENNIS
   
   
   Introduction This paper re-introduces a much neglected classic: Harold
   Cruse’s epic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, published in 1967. A
   time of hope and optimism, but also a time of despair, protest, discontent,
   and rebellion. The ‘60s was a crucial decade because America seemed reluctant
   to address unresolved issues: segregation versus integration in schools,
   employment, churches, housing, dating, and marriage. Then there was the
   Vietnam War which raised moral as well as economic issues—can we have both
   guns and butter, or must we choose between the two? It is such a juncture
   that prompts scholars, intellectuals, and ordinary…
   
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 * REVISITING TRANSRACIAL VS. TRANSGENDER IDENTITY
   
   
   BY: DAVID REZNIK
   
   
   A reflexive statement to start: I am a White cisgender man and the
   perspectives I offer here are to be interpreted within that context. I
   acknowledge the intersectional privileges I experience, including the
   opportunity to express my viewpoints below at a time of extraordinary
   violence directed at Black and trans* communities across the United States.
   My hope is that the ideas I offer in this essay help to bolster the struggle
   for social justice and further all forms of solidarity with those whose
   marginalized and oppressed identities I discuss. I thank The Sociologist’s
   editors and reviewers for their helpful feedback…
   
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 * ASK A SOCIOLOGIST: RACISM IN THE COURTS
   
   
   BY: NAKIM RYAN
   
   
   From our mailbag (edited for clarity): Hi. I have a question specifically on
   studies relating to what is considered the institutional racism against
   African Americans in the criminal justice system. I was told the many studies
   that show a disparity between Whites and Blacks in sentencing, which is said
   to prove racial bias in the justice system, are invalid due to the fact that
   they do not take into account how many Black people on average are held in
   contempt of court, and lawyer ability. Because of the lack of ability to even
   take these things into account, a study…
   
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