Sociology From & About the DMV – October 2025

                   CONTENT

  • Conversation with Adia Harvey Wingfield p. 2
  • Feature Article p. 13 “The Fight against Fascism is the Fight against Empire” by Walda Katz-Fishman & Jerome Scott
  • DCSS Awards: Tech, the Arts, and Social Justice 
  • And More: Book Review and Reflection on Advocacy/Activism p. 8

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February 2024

          CONTENT
  • Interview With ASA Immediate Past President Prudence Carter

  • Intersectional Solidarities: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy

  • Remembering a Scholar, Mentor, Colleague, and Friend

  • Remembering John P. Drysdale

  • A Researcher’s Story on Uncovering the Truth Behind WIC

  • Documentaries in Sociology

  • Harold Cruse, Black Intellectuals, and Reconstructing Black America

  • Revisiting Transracial vs. Transgender Identity

  • Ask a Sociologist: Racism in the Courts

  • Ask a Sociologist: Who Are You?

  • Contributors

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October 2021

                                          CONTENT

  • Building an Interdisciplinary Community through Public Sociology
  • Immigration Policy, Legal Status & Enforcement through Three Decades of Research among Central American Immigrants in the United States
  • Response to Menjívar
  • Memories of Mel Kohn
  • Being a Fence Watcher at Black Lives Matter Plaza
  • The Capitol Riots and Police Suicides Remembered
  • Reflections on Howard University’s Panels on Race Relations
  • Interview With Evan Douglas: How Can We Reduce the Sociological Contributors to Police Violence?
  • Watching Fences
  • Journeys and Cycles: Student Experiences of Virtual Learning During the Pandemic
  • Contributors

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May 2020

                                                         CONTENT

  • The Challenge of Public Sociology – in the Pandemic of 2020
  • The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Centrality of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Truth and Service: The Hundred-Year Legacy of Sociology at Howard University
  • Participatory Action Research as Public Sociology: Bringing Lived Experience Back In
  •  W.E.B. Du Bois, the First Public Sociologist

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January 2020

                                       CONTENT

  • Racial Tug of War: The Enduring Conflict over Affirmative Action
  • Morris Rosenberg and Sociology in High School
  • A Cultural Look on the Adolescent Mind
  • Oppressive Societies and Social Justice Warriors: Conversation with Joe R. Feagin
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May 2019

                                            CONTENT

  • The #MeToo Movement and Sexual Agency
  • Ask the Sociologist: Feminist Sociological Theory and Conflict Theory
  • Evicted at the National Building Museum
  • Framing Slavery at Mount Vernon
  • The Ultimate Project: Erik Olin Wright and Real Utopias
  • Ask the Sociologist: Are Ethnic Groups Subcultures?
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January 2019

                                                    CONTENT

  • Sugar Puffs or Frosties? Bandersnatch, Interactive Content, and Active Engagement
  • The Legacy of Devah Pager
  • Diversification: Conference on Gender Equality Reimagines the Purpose of Economics
  • Data Watch: UM College Park Tops List of Schools in Area with R&D Funding
  • Call for Papers: Punishing Trauma
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October 2018

                                       CONTENT

  • The Other Story about Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors
  • Experiencing the Other at CARNE y ARENA
  • The Challenge of Reentry in a Free Society: Prospects for a New Crime Commission
  • Building an Age-Inclusive District
  • Ask the Sociologist: Authority and Obedience
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May 2018

                                               CONTENT

  • Policing Brown Bodies
  • Skipping Class: First-Gen, Working-Class, and Low-Income Students in College
  • Our Fight for Transparency
  • Art Exhibition Expands the Construction of “American Workers” in the Popular  Imagination
  • Breakfast with a Side of Public Sociology
  • Reflections on March for Our Lives
  • Ask a Sociologist
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February 2018

                                         CONTENT

  • The Mall is Dead, Long Live the Mall
  • The Magic of Breakfast: Pancake Saturdays
  • Re-Centering the Student Voice in the Debate of Free Speech in Higher Education
  • Our Meeting Place
  • Featured Resource: Few Years’ Resolution Video Archive

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October 2017

                                                 CONTENT

  • Starting with Community: Sociological Practice in Building Scholar-Activist Coalitions
  • Aspiring to Entrepreneurship in the District
  • “28 Blocks” Mural and Public Art
  • Berlin on My Mind: Traveling through Memory

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May 2017

                                                CONTENT

  • Racism in TrumpAmerica
  • Sociology & Activism Putting the Social in Science: Sociologists March
  • Representations of South Asian Characters in U.S. Media
  • There is No Prison in Washington: Challenges of Reentry in the District
  • Immigrant Laborers Bring May Flowers
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January 2017

                                         CONTENT

  • Bonds of Community, Points of Individualism: Conversation with Amitai Etzioni
  • What We Can Learn from the Debate over Educational Technology in Schools
  • Tuesday Night Lights
  • Ballet and Bourdieu: Making Sense of The Nutcracker in Popular Culture
  • Now That the Election is Over: The Future of Criminal Justice Reform
  • What Public Housing Can Teach Us: Lessons Learned from Grassroots DC

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September 2016

                                      CONTENT
  • Meeting Children’s Needs in an Era of Accountability
  • The Ten Frugalities of Affluent Climate Activists
  • Sociology in the District – Interpreting the Name Redskins
  • Walls and Emails and a Whole Lot of Outrage
  • Ask a Sociologist
  • Wearing Gay History: Using T-Shirts as Narratives

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May 2016

                             CONTENT

  • Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination
  • A Washington Life: The Sociology of Anna Julia Cooper
  • Truth about the Past, Justice in the Present
  • Immigrant Testimonies about Transitional Space: the Albanian Experience

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January 2016

                           CONTENT

  • H Street and the Aesthetics of Cool
  • A Variety of Globalizations
  • Who is an Applied Sociologist?: Panel Discussion about Careers
  • Fighting Violence with Gandhi and Sociology
  • Stars Wars and the Problem of Public Attention

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September 2015

                      CONTENT

  • Campus Sexual Assault and Male Peer Support
  • At the Intersection of Mental Health Services and Guns
  • Farewell to a Legacy: The Closing of a Sociology Program
  • Where Status takes Place: Observations from Istanbul
  • Sociology on my Mind: Traveling through Budapest

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May 2015

               CONTENT

  • Class Inequalities among Women
  • The Slippery Search for Kinky Sex
  • Inequality in the District
  • The Founding of DCSS Part Two: Organizing
  • Founding Members of DCSS 1934 (Table)

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February 2015

                 CONTENT

  • Gender Differences in the Heterosexual College Scene of Hookups and Relationships
  • The Founding of DCSS Part One: The Context
  • Rethinking Police-Community Relations
  • What’s Your Sociology?
  • The Mis-measurement of Racial Identity

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November 2014

                       CONTENT

  • Sociology’s Place in the Academic Labor Movement
  • Measuring Identity among Hispanics in the United States
  • Media and Social Movements: Scholar Traces Source of Letter M
  • Markets in the Name of Socialism, Planning in the Name of Capitalism

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