The national racial income gap has changed relatively little, but its geography has shifted considerably. ISR’s @robertmanduca.bsky.social finds disparities narrowed across much of the South while widening in parts of the Northeast and Midwest.
Jeremy Levine
@jeremylevine.bsky.social
Professor at Michigan & Associate Director @umichstonecid.bsky.social Sociologist studying crime victims and the politics of punishment in the U.S.; first book was an ethnography of urban development in Boston. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jeremylevine/
Coming home after a meaningful #ASA2026, where I symbolically made my transition to a new stage of my career as a criminal legal scholar, beginning my term as Sociology of Law council member & accepting the Distinguished Article Award from the CLD section. Just as cool: caught a Liberty-Aces game!
NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
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Out: A Republican is a Democrat who has been mugged In: A DSA member is a capitalist who reads
laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · last wk.Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
The current anti-university coalition is an odd marriage of small-c (sometimes big-C) conservatives that see college as a place for job training where you acquire job-specific skills, and the authors of the Vandy reports, who appear to be philosophers who reduce college to intellectual masturbation.
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · last wk.this is such a silly thing to say. the expansion of human knowledge consists in the successive settling of debates. i would have thought the university was meant to be involved in that project
Check out our own @ninsolera.bsky.social 's important work on food insecurity highlighted in the July issue of Michigan research. #umich #academicsky
Noura Insolera@ninsolera.bsky.social · 2w agoMany thanks to Jon Meerdink @umisr.bsky.social for writing this piece highlighting food insecurity research in the United States. research.umich.edu/research-sto...
Gross, antisemitic nonsense, yes. But that aside it’s so funny she put a comma after “bro”. Truly the cherry on top.
@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 2w agoShe knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.
Agreed to review a book for a press because it helped me justify buying a new sweater. I bought the sweater, but haven't gotten around to the review, so now I am trying to use the money I'll get from the review to justify the new jacket I want. I'm just going to continue doing this over and over...
I am from Chicago. Why do I sound like a Valley Girl? 🤔 Report here: www.brownspromise.org/statesofsegr... For all your segregation tracking needs: edopportunity.org/segregation
State Segregation Ranking — Brown's Promise
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American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · 3w agoASA member Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social comments on recent research that sheds light on why school segregation persists, noting that, contrary to popular belief, some of the most segregated states in the U.S. are not in the South, but in the Midwest and Northeast.
“Vivek Sankaran, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and child advocacy law expert, said he was troubled that Michigan State Police went to Buttigieg’s door with such a vague allegation that didn’t present any indication that children were imminently at risk.”
Fenit Nirappil@fenitn.bsky.social · 3w agoHow did a false allegation lead to Pete Buttigieg's separation from his kids? Our exclusive reporting shows how authorities did not take steps to vet the caller who left her contact. We found the caller who said she wanted to thwart his White House ambitions. Gift link: wapo.st/45ok5XP
Also, lol at the criminologist/sociologist, who likes to tsk-tsk his colleagues for being too “politicized,” complaining that we don’t study “whether we have Venezuelan gangs in Colorado.”
Chris Maggio@chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 3w agoI beg you to read a major criminology journal or attend a major criminology conference and try to tell me this is a remotely accurate characterization
A recent study found that both direct and indirect exposure to gun violence is linked to higher rates of chronic pain. Whether someone has lost a loved one or they’ve been shot themselves, the study’s lead author said, their mental health and physical health are inextricably linked.
Even If You've Never Been Shot, Gun Violence May Still Be Hurting You
Surviving a gunshot wound, losing a loved one to a shooting, or simply witnessing gun violence can leave people with chronic pain long after the event, according a new study by Rutgers University.
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This is darkly funny insofar as the argument is, effectively, "America has always been intensely racist, from the very beginning, and therefore we must, as originalists, assume Congress likely had racist intent and interpret laws accordingly." Something something CRT.
Joe Dudek@joedudekjd.bsky.social · 3w agoFrom Flowers's brief on behalf of Richard Epstein in the birthright case: We must always remember that the framers were deeply racist, so their laws should be interpreted as being similarly racist.
From Flowers's brief on behalf of Richard Epstein in the birthright case: We must always remember that the framers were deeply racist, so their laws should be interpreted as being similarly racist.
patrick mcneil (he/him)@patrickryne.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: The Senate just confirmed Trump loyalist Benjamin Flowers to the 6th Circuit, marking the 50th lifetime confirmation of Trump's second term. Flowers' record is appalling and should have been disqualifying, but now — at 39 years old — he'll serve for decades on a powerful appellate court.
We used these data for key research on workplace inequality: Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005 www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/ASQ10.pdf Black Underrepresentation in Management across U.S. Labor Markets www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/AAAPSS0...
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Oh no, this one is even worse, misunderstanding 501c3 AND not understanding endowments 😕
Jeremy Levine@jeremylevine.bsky.social · 3w agoDoes Westwood engage in good faith or is he blinded by his political beliefs? If the former, someone should tell him this is “up is down, grass is blue” levels of wrong regarding the history, intent, practice, and theory of the 501c3 designation. It is almost an exact 1:1 opposite of true!
Does Westwood engage in good faith or is he blinded by his political beliefs? If the former, someone should tell him this is “up is down, grass is blue” levels of wrong regarding the history, intent, practice, and theory of the 501c3 designation. It is almost an exact 1:1 opposite of true!
the evaporation of IRL third spaces and the role of online as the new publics has essentially broken everyone's brain, imo
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 3w agothe hanania article on the Atlantic is mostly an bad apologia of RH but i really do not think people get how much basically everyone goes insane (no matter politics) by the fact that online is basically the primary space of socialization today
⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ Do immigrant neighborhoods face the same eviction rates as non-immigrant neighborhoods? New paper by Leung, Louis, Rangel, and Desmond at the link below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Pleased to be quoted in this Seattle Times article on inequalities in home insurance premiums between White and Black / Hispanic households. I suggest these inequalities may contribute to racial inequalities in the wealth-building effects of homeownership. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
Homeowners of color pay higher insurance costs in WA, nationwide
New research finds a link between the cost of homeowners' insurance and the racial makeup of a neighborhood.
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“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...
Not hard to see what's been happening here. A few high profile political scientists publicly disagreed with him, so now he has decided the entire discipline is ideologically captured. The way he thinks--emotionally, los of motivated reasoning--has always been very transparent.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.Schrödinger‘s political science: simultaneously so hackish & irrelevant that 50 years of research about how elites shape public opinion can be constantly ignored, & also so powerful that our mere papers can change politicians’ behavior & render our theories completely wrong. Pick a lane, man 🤷♂️
If you’re jokingly keeping a tally of how people on a different social media website are responding to an essay you wrote so you can dunk on them, you are a huge loser lmao
In the universe next door, the map did include Jewish neighborhoods and exactly the same people are outraged he’s equating Jews with foreigners.
The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · last mo.Mamdani’s office accused of excluding Jews from map of NYC immigrant neighbourhoods www.thejc.com/news/usa/mam...
As expected, DOJ sued to overturn Virginia's new assault weapons ban — and also sued California over its "Glock ban" and handgun roster. That makes 7 gun-related suits from the Civil Rights Division, which historically enforced anti-discrimination statutes. My latest w/@bychipbrownlee.com:
Department of Justice Sues Virginia and California Over Gun Restrictions
The lawsuits accuse the states of unconstitutionally banning assault weapons and pistols that can be easily modified into machine guns.
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Do you smell something? Police increasingly justify searches based on the smell of weed, yet only 20% of these searches discover contraband. Our model brief argues that discretionary opinions perpetuate implicit bias and result in racially biased outcomes: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...
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Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
In Boston, BBURG was a bank consortium that bucked the trend in postwar redlining by explicitly offering mortgages to Black homebuyers….but only if they bought in Black neighborhoods, seen by BBURG as a strategy to limit the violence that comes with integration. Segregation, but wokley (sorta)
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2mo agoHEARTWARMING: This Bank Fights Gentrification By Refusing to Write Mortgages in All-Black Neighborhoods