Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Women? The Intersections of Caste, Class, and Gender Inequality France Winddance Twine, University of California at Santa Barbara France Winddance Twine is a Professor of Sociology and documentary filmmaker at the University of California- Santa Barbara. Twine is a Black and Native American critical race theorist and feminist ethnographer... Read more »
"Emissions, Inequality, and Human Well-Being" Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College In this talk Prof. Jorgenson will provide an overview of ongoing collaborative research streams that focus on interconnections between greenhouse gas emissions, ambient air pollution, forms of inequality, and human well-being. This theoretically-engaged research involves the combining of social and environmental datasets at various scales, ranging... Read more »
Speaker: Tianna Paschel. University of California – Berkeley "Racism In Our Own Backyard: Black Movements, Antiracist Policy and Changing Racial Discourse in Brazil" The late 1990s marked a political shift in Brazil with the adoption of a number of racial equality policies including affirmative action, and increased mobilization by the country’s black movement. Recently, scholars have... Read more »
Speaker: Tressie McMillan Cottom, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Title: “Higher Education, Digital Transformation and COVID-19” Tressie McMillan Cottom, is an associate professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (UNC) and 2020 MacArthur Fellow.... Read more »
Learning to be Latino: How Colleges Shape Identity Politics Daisy Reyes, University of California Merced Colleges matter not only because they shape students’ job prospects, but also because they influence who, in a broader sense, students may become, shaping their understandings of themselves, their futures, and the world. We know that college campuses have very... Read more »
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets Greta Krippner, University of Michigan The insurance industry presents a striking anomaly in the post-civil rights era in American life: across most lines of insurance, men and women can expect to pay different prices for access to coverage, or receive substantially different benefits when they... Read more »
"Striking for Control: Labor Movement Renewal in Amazon's Logistics Network" Nantina Vgontzas, Postdoctoral Researcher at AI Now Institute, NYU Nantina Vgontzas is a postdoctoral researcher at NYU's AI Now Institute and received their PhD in sociology from NYU in 2020. Their research sits at the intersection of political economy, labor and social movements. Situating ethnographic findings... Read more »
Title: Professional Work in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era: Black Health Care Workers in the New Economy Speaker: Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St Louis Abstract: What happens to black professionals when work transforms? In an era of rapid technological change, shrinking protections for workers, and growing income inequality, work is no longer the secure, stable, predictable path to... Read more »
Presented by Hannah Wohl, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara This is an online event. Please register online to participate via Zoom.
Speaker: Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Title: "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" Abstract: Through the erotic webcam industry—"camming”—millions of people from all over the globe have found decent wages, friendship, intimacy, community, empowerment, and pleasure. Cam models, like all sex workers, must grapple with exploitation,... Read more »
