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Quick Tips on Choosing PhD Programs for POCs
I am in the process of choosing a PhD program to attend this fall. The job of choosing a program has been one of the most intensive things I’ve had to do since deciding to start graduate school. I...
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You’ve Got to Keep the Anger Inside You Smoldering
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee where I participated in an intensive three-day training that involved nonviolence training...
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The Hood Sociology Series
I am currently finishing up my MA Thesis on how residents of segregated communities define the border of their communities in relation to others around them. One of the big findings was that...
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The Existential Crisis of the Before Submission PhD
How a month flies by! I have been working my fingers off in marking, writing, revising, answering emails from students who think I don’t give enough feedback, emails from students who think I give too...
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Upwards Harassment and Teaching in Academia, Part One: Setting The Stage
Recently, shewhomakesmeaningsclear posted an insightful and thought provoking piece about her experience as a black woman from a highly prestigious university. Building on the academic work of Buchanan...
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Are We Giving Back Enough? Thoughts on Fair Exchange and Academic Public...
Not too long ago I penned a piece for Inside Higher Ed and University of Venus’ Scholars Strike Back Series about the limited discussion around academics and public engagement. My core argument was...
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Pre-Post Dissertation Blues
It’s be a while since I’ve last posted. I am aware that I had a three-parter planned, and it has been written, just not in a coherent fashion. I’m working on it. I have been feeling pretty all over the...
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Upwards Harassment and Teaching in Academia Part 2: Lights, Camera, Action!
Upwards harassment is an emerging trend that is not being dealt with as effectively as it could be. In part one, I outlined what I mean by upwards harassment and some of the key influential factors in...
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Understanding Feminism: Beyond the Man Vs Woman Debate
There’s been a lot of stuff out there lately about the trending movement of #menisism. What is menisism? Apparently, it’s meant to be the opposite of feminism by promoting men’s interests. It’s meant...
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Killer Cops Won’t Wait On Your Next Article: The Role of Academics in...
As a graduate student in sociology studying racial segregation and other forms of racial oppression, the realities of my people’s lives and deaths are a constant part of my lived experience. Part of...
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Oppression Bias and Why It Sucks to be a Black Sociologist
The social sciences as they have developed in the western world has it as it’s goal to develop, catalog, understand, and organize human behavior. Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy,...
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Building an Africana Sociology
As a sociologist-in-training and a grad student it is my job to eat, breath, and live sociology, the study of human interaction and social institutions. I spend most of my week either reading...
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Africana Sociology and the Postcolonial Challenge to “Global” Sociology
In my previous post the argument was presented that at their core the social sciences are Eurocentric projects and that project of decolonization need to be undertaken to challenge this eurocentricism....
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Forbidden Knowledge, Collective Action, and Marginalization in Academia
I recently attended the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting to present a paper. That paper was proposing an Africana Sociology that would use African epistemology and social thought to...
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The 99% Isn’t Me: Being the Minority in the 99%
~Part of the Black in the Revolution Series~ As the first post of my series, Black in the Revolution, I figured it would be good to start with the most obvious and most visible political moment and...
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#TheseAcademicHands and Higher Ed’s White Supremacy Problem
Before I write anything it needs to be said that I have it relatively good in these academic streets. I’m a cis Black man who’s at a top Sociology PhD program with funding and advisors who support me...
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