This week, we speak to Georgetown sociologist Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans (2016, University of California Press). Also, Twitter’s experiment with 280 character Tweets, China’s crackdown on Uighurs, post-Christianity in Europe, and Chris Hayes’ A Colony and a Nation.
We discuss two cases in which online outrage spurred changes in academia: the cases of George Cicariello-Maher and the Third World Quarterly retraction.
Genetic genealogy, and confused conceptions about the history of race and ethnicity.
This week on The Annex, we talk with Kieran Healy from Duke University. Kieran is author of the much-acclaimed 2017 theory paper “Fuck Nuance” […]
We discuss China’s Uyghurs, the casting of Uyghurs as whites in Chinese culture, and the Uyghurs’ heritage.
