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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith

  • Donna Tallent
  • May 8, 2020
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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Laying Bare Our Truths: A Conversation with Marika Lindholm

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • October 2, 2019
Marika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
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  • Deesha Philyaw
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Bethany C. Morrow

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • May 16, 2018
Bethany C. Morrow discusses her debut novel, MEM, how it felt to read Toni Morrison for the first time, and her hope for Black girl readers.
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The Color of Discipline

  • Dani McClain
  • May 14, 2018
The violence inflicted by black parents onto their children was born out of both love and a deep, abiding fear for that child’s ability to survive the American caste system that devalues black life.
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Mixed Feelings: The Emotional Labor of Listening to Men Complain

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • March 28, 2017
In the first installment of "Mixed Feelings," a science-based advice column, Mandy Catron offers counsel on handling a partner's obsession with their ex.
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On Suffering and Sympathy

  • Matthew Clair
  • December 27, 2016
What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
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The Rumpus Interview with Bronwen Dickey

  • Jonathan McDaniel
  • October 3, 2016
Bronwen Dickey discusses Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, her examination of one of the most feared dog breeds, how the media changes perceptions, and what Eliza Doolittle might have to say about this.
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Sociology and Art with W. E. B. DuBois

  • Michelle Vider
  • July 11, 2016
Allison Meier writes for Hyperallergic on the hand-drawn, recently digitized data visualizations produced by W. E. B. DuBois (in collaboration with others) to demonstrate the size and scope of black…
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A New Scientific History

  • Michelle Vider
  • January 25, 2016
Did Du Bois and the Atlanta School have a distinct standpoint? Of course…. But white privileged departments of Sociology also had their distinct standpoint. And theirs was the standpoint of…
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Choice or Fate in Romance

  • Michelle Vider
  • October 26, 2015
For Aeon, Polina Aronson writes on the different “romantic regimes” of the world, with “regime” defined as the cultural, economic, and sociological systems behind how we engage in relationships. Aronson…
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“The Sheer Fun of Researching” Cults

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 30, 2013
Sociologist Susan Palmer studies new religious movements—“cults,” as the rest of us might call them—not out of morbid fascination or a desire to catalog their evils, but because she considers…
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