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Matthew Clair

@mathuclair.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Law at Stanford. Author of PRIVILEGE & PUNISHMENT www.matthewclair.org

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Brenden Beck@brendenbeck.net · last wk.

Homicides of white and wealthy people get more press attention. In this excellent new study, @jbenmenachem.com interviews journalists to understand why. Short version: journalists often recognize the inequity but feel constrained by resources and demands for novelty. doi.org/10.1111/1745...

Which deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcity

Past research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing these patterns remain understudied. This paper a...

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Stanford Sociology@stanfordsoc.bsky.social · last mo.

Congrats to Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social who received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's IPM Section! @asa-ipm.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social sociology.stanford.edu/news/matt-cl...

Matt Clair receives William Julius Wilson early career award | Department of Sociology

Associate Professor Matt Clair has been awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, recognizing his outstanding scholarship and significant contributions to the study of inequality, poverty,...

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

New at PB: Founding editor Caitlin Zaloom interviews author and scholar @ninabandelj.bsky.social about her new book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), the latest installment in our partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social.

The “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A Conversation with Nina Bandelj - Public Books

“I am an observer of how intellectual ideas travel and enter into everyday life, or how they come to be performed by families in ways that give those ideas a reality of their own.”

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Prof. Aviles@nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My new piece in @issuesinst.bsky.social with @cyberlyra.bsky.social comes at an urgent moment in science policy. New OMB rules and EOs threaten to politicize science and strip it of the democratic norms, autonomy, and pluralism meant to protect science as and for democracy issues.org/merton-redux...

Merton Redux: Re-Confronting the Norms of Science in Democracy

The decimation of democratic processes that undergird state-sponsored research may be ultimately more consequential than funding cuts.

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Matthew Clair@mathuclair.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New article theorizing the relational mechanisms that reproduce criminal legal inequalities. Come for the theory; stay for the review of cutting-edge research showing how social closure, exploitation, and claims-making drive inequality under the law compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Relational Theory of Inequality in the Criminal Legal System

This article outlines a relational theory of legal inequality through a review of recent studies of crime, law, and deviance. I argue that three relational mechanisms—claims-making, social closure, a...

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Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Precisely this. As Coates wrote about him preciously, “[Trump's] ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.”

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Matthew Clair@mathuclair.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Throughout the conference, panelists noted the importance of public institutions, and successfully working within them, to a functional democracy.” Appreciated the chance to be part of this thought-provoking conference @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social! www.law.berkeley.edu/article/pion...

Pioneering Center for the Study of Law and Society still blazing new trails to show how law operates in the real world

Its 65th anniversary conference addressed criminal justice, inequality, democracy and civil society, and lessons for and from the legal profession.

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Sandeep@sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧵: my latest draft paper ‘The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is still looking for a law review home 🤞🏽 Here are some brief highlights for anyone interested

Abstract which states: The problem of the Twentieth Century was the problem of the color line. That problem, however, never seriously preoccupied the Legal Realists. This may come as disappointment to many scholars today who see the Realists, particularly those who critiqued courts, free markets, and oligarchic power, as intellectual ancestors. Then again, the answer depends on who we count as a Realist. The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold and unwind alongside the development of Legal Realism. Though he is better remembered as a political theorist and historian, his work also contained theorizing about law that tracked key Realist insights. But this Article shows that Du Bois wasn't simply another Legal Realist. He was an outstanding one, whose own Realism emerged not through colorblind critiques of classical legal thought, but through thinking, organizing, and propagandizing against race hierarchy. This Article traces how Du Bois's insights matured over the course of his career, including by examining works that receive little attention today, especially among legal scholars. From Du Bois's dissertation on the slave trade, to his studies of the South's political economy, to his collection of essays in Darkwater, where he developed an idea of whiteness as property. This long pattern of thought congealed most powerfully in the "dictatorship of property," an idea Du Bois developed in his famous Black Reconstruction. This memorable phrase and concept merged public and private, political and economic, and the traditionally separate domains of property and sovereignty. His profound legal-theoretical insights came through studying slavery and sharecropping; through responding to Lynch Law and race riots; through reacting to cases like Bailey v. Alabama, rather than Lochner v. New York; through historiographical battle with the Dunning School; and even through factional fights within the NAACP. After World War II, Du Bois would also…Table of contents and opening paragraph of paper
Elizabeth D. Katz@elizabethdkatz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1. aslh.net/award/projec...

Projects and Proposals Funding | American Society for Legal History

The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical schol...

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Septima P. Snark@drsubini.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

THIS. I get an email like this every few weeks. They are selling hard to academic to offload the work to make space for other "more important" work. But analysis & writing IS the work that honors the voices of intellectual ancestors, centers the participants & connects the two to to build theory

a logo that says AILYZE and some bullshit about AI analysis being faster & higher quality for qual research.
Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺@sgbuggs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ain’t no chat bot doing my analysis better than me. ain’t no chat bot writing better than me. fuck off.

Heather Martin@biblioheather.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale

Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

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