Jelani Ince

@profince.bsky.social

Sociologist at UW-Seattle. My work focuses on capture, organizations, and contentious politics.

In a new Spotlight Analysis, PRRI Public Fellow @profince.bsky.social examines Americans' attitudes toward protest, from views on speaking out against unfair government treatment to reactions to President Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 defendants. Read more:

Views of Protesting the Government During President Trump’s Tenure

Dr. Jelani Ince is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow focusing on racial justice and white supremacy. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Protest has long been…

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It was a delight to build this with Corey! I am grateful for his desire to join with me to trouble sociology’s focus on presentism, its inattention to the wake, the ethnographic obsession with observing/recording, and how that obfuscates the representation of black life.

Corey J. Miles@coreyjmiles.bsky.social · last yr.

excited about this new paper, where @profince.bsky.social pulls me in to think about what does research look like outside of always assuming black disparity and then indexing our way to knowable facts of blackness. what does it mean not to solely be interested in black people but to care for them.

“They don’t Want Your Dead Life, They Want Your Living Life”: Ethnography in the Wake
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