Victor Ray

@victorerikray

Sociologist. Assistant Professor at UT Knoxville. Duke PhD. Radical Incognegro. Opinions are mine.

Joined February 2014

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  2. On Robert Park’s 1918 address to the American Sociological Society. Also See Ferguson's Aberrations in Black

  3. -- racial progress is too optimistic; structural racism finds new mechanisms to persist

  4. Trump campaign's rent in Trump Tower, via March: $35,458 May: $72,800 June: $110,684 July: $169,758 ?

  5. Morris pushing back on notion that Du Bois totally left academia: "He may have left a building.. he never left the academy of ideas"

  6. " clears a pathway to the real DuBois." with Aldon Morris

  7. The tweets from are as juicy as a script. At this point no one will be leaving Seattle with edges

  8. Mignon Moore just pointed out that women of color are least likely to say yes when asked to run for ASA offices

  9. I’m used to seeing class used to dodge race discussions. First time I’ve seen intersectionality.

  10. Morris: sociology has come to the time to slay the dragon of value neutrality

  11. ASA Presidents have been overwhelmingly white: 3 black males, 1 black female, 1 Latino, and 1 Asian American

  12. Aldon: only 5% of the ASA presidents have been POC

  13. Aldon Morris: For people of color, extreme tokenism remains the reality to this day.

  14. Moore: Look at sexual minorities not as the exception but as part of the setting.

  15. they all so fed up. Julian Go of BU is going INNNN right now. and his cadence is like Jeremiah Wright lol

  16. Lord, all these critical race scholars talk like Baptist preachers, i gotta get my rhetorical skills together.

  17. Embrick shouts out UC Merced soc as a place that encourages critical race scholarship and pos atmosphere

  18. This town hall is the single most important session at (or any other ASA meeting, really)

  19. EBS: do public interventions with incomplete data and understanding (what is complete knowledge anyways)

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