Elijah Anderson is the Lanman professor of sociology at Yale University. This essay has been adapted from his forthcoming book, Black in White Space. The Big Idea is Vox’s home for smart ...

When I was hired at Yale, the chair of the sociology department ... elevated the income of many Black people and brought them into previously white spaces. Yes, a lot of affirmative-action efforts ...

Black sociology, literary ... "This is a good book to help white people and non-black people of color answer often spoken and unspoken questions about race and racism," Moore told Business ...

Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Yale and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize, the world’s most prestigious prize in the field of criminology. The challenges Black people ...

As a sociology professor at Dartmouth College ... Everyone learns, but I find that the small handful of white students in the class usually learn the most. That’s because for the first time ...

He's an associate professor of sociology at the University ... All had professional occupations. And black men, particularly those who lived in predominately white neighborhoods and who worked ...

If black and white neighborhoods received the same resources ... Patrick Sharkey (@patrick_sharkey) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of ...

In sociology, a “master status” refers ... While the respective white and black spaces may appear to be racially homogeneous, typically they can be sub-classified in terms of ethnicity and ...

Many have focused on the values and attitudes of students and whether black students think doing well in school is "acting white." Columbia High School sociology teacher Melissa Cooper begins ...

Senior sociology major Chriara Stevenson was named this ... “As an African American woman, we are faced with two barriers: being black in a predominately white society and being a woman in a ...