Deadric T. Williams
@docthoughts.bsky.social
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Center for the Study of Black Families and Children - College of Arts and Sciences
Center for the Study of Black Families and Children Structural racism persists and exerts pernicious effects on Black families and children in the United States. For example, Black Americans are more ...
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This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack.
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Homefront: Black Servicemembers and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era
The role of Black World War II veterans in the Civil Rights Movement has been well documented, but the effect of Black military service on Black voting patterns remains unclear. Combining detailed in...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Given all the talk about SNAP, here's a line graph I made revealing the percentage of households receiving SNAP by race/ethnicity over time. These percentages represent millions of people in each group.
Data: USDA.
Data: USDA.
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Given all the talk about SNAP, here's a line graph I made revealing the percentage of households receiving SNAP by race/ethnicity over time. These percentages represent millions of people in each group.
Data: USDA.
Data: USDA.
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That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group.
Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.
Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group.
Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.
Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.
I'm giving a talk at The Institute for Population Research tomorrow at the Ohio State University and @trevondlogan.bsky.social was my 1st meeting today. So happy to finally meet this brotha.
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm giving a talk at The Institute for Population Research tomorrow at the Ohio State University and @trevondlogan.bsky.social was my 1st meeting today. So happy to finally meet this brotha.
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Kudos to this journalist for talking to actual scholars, like @docthoughts.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social who have spent years studying Black families, to bring some much needed insight.
The Backlash to Cardi B's Pregnancy Is Rooted in Old, Racist Ideas
Online critics who lashed out at Cardi B's pregnancy announcement were echoing old, racist stereotypes about broken families and single mothers
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October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Kudos to this journalist for talking to actual scholars, like @docthoughts.bsky.social and @christinajcross.bsky.social who have spent years studying Black families, to bring some much needed insight.
America is so anti-Black that the idea of enslaved persons being freed sparked an entire Civil War.
July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
America is so anti-Black that the idea of enslaved persons being freed sparked an entire Civil War.
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Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
May 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
The study of racism is the study of how, and in what ways, misinformation becomes normalized.
May 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The study of racism is the study of how, and in what ways, misinformation becomes normalized.
STATA users: Help. I have two variables (1) good health and (2) poor health. I want to combine these two variables into one variable: good health ==1 and poor health==2.
April 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
STATA users: Help. I have two variables (1) good health and (2) poor health. I want to combine these two variables into one variable: good health ==1 and poor health==2.
Dissertation title:
The intergenerational transfer of antiBlackness in the United States, 1619-2025.
The intergenerational transfer of antiBlackness in the United States, 1619-2025.
March 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dissertation title:
The intergenerational transfer of antiBlackness in the United States, 1619-2025.
The intergenerational transfer of antiBlackness in the United States, 1619-2025.
The socially constructed category "White" is about race too. But remnants of Eugenics still permeate the bowels of the social sciences, which affords you the opportunity to render that fact invisible.
March 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The socially constructed category "White" is about race too. But remnants of Eugenics still permeate the bowels of the social sciences, which affords you the opportunity to render that fact invisible.
If you truly understood why racial categories were invented in the first place, then you would realize that a person racialized as White saying "it's not always about race" is indicative of how they experience racism.
March 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you truly understood why racial categories were invented in the first place, then you would realize that a person racialized as White saying "it's not always about race" is indicative of how they experience racism.
Looking forward to attending @popassocamerica.bsky.social next month.
March 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Looking forward to attending @popassocamerica.bsky.social next month.
I started to think more sociologically when I started reading outside of sociology.
It's ironic; don't you think?!
It's ironic; don't you think?!
March 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I started to think more sociologically when I started reading outside of sociology.
It's ironic; don't you think?!
It's ironic; don't you think?!
It took me a while to realize this but the "Moving to Opportunity" project is rooted in racial essentialism. That's why I have a hard time grappling with those studies.
March 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It took me a while to realize this but the "Moving to Opportunity" project is rooted in racial essentialism. That's why I have a hard time grappling with those studies.
If a scholar gives an hour presentation about inequality by focusing on people racialized as Black, then you ask a question about people not racialized as Black, that's a form of antiBlackness.
March 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If a scholar gives an hour presentation about inequality by focusing on people racialized as Black, then you ask a question about people not racialized as Black, that's a form of antiBlackness.
I strongly dislike when people are talking about intersectionality and they reduce it to identities. Here's why.
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Kimberle Crenshaw Intersectionality NOT identity
YouTube video by Scott Burden
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March 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I strongly dislike when people are talking about intersectionality and they reduce it to identities. Here's why.
youtu.be/uPtz8TiATJY?...
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We need to talk about the intersections of Whiteness and paternalism in academia.
January 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We need to talk about the intersections of Whiteness and paternalism in academia.
Jealousy is just confused admiration.
January 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jealousy is just confused admiration.
My research is not about social categories; rather, my work focuses on the processes and mechanisms that make social category salient in the first place. There's a difference.
January 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My research is not about social categories; rather, my work focuses on the processes and mechanisms that make social category salient in the first place. There's a difference.
Are there "go-to" articles on measuring race, measuring gender, and measuring sexuality?
January 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Are there "go-to" articles on measuring race, measuring gender, and measuring sexuality?
Here's the original post
January 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Here's the original post
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Great population health postdoc opportunity at the University of Minnesota.
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Postdoctoral Training | Minnesota Population Center
Postdoctoral TrainingWe hire both project-based Post Doctoral Associates and program-based Post Doctoral Trainees.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Great population health postdoc opportunity at the University of Minnesota.
🛟sociology demography 😷policysky polisky health policy PhDsky academicsky 📉
🛟sociology demography 😷policysky polisky health policy PhDsky academicsky 📉
sometimes you fight for a seat at the table only to realize the food is nasty.
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
sometimes you fight for a seat at the table only to realize the food is nasty.
A few years ago I moved away from saying "White people" or "Black people," etc to saying "people racialized as ..." because race categories are settlers' tools. We cannot adequately address racial inequality by using the very tools settlers created to justify inequality.
January 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A few years ago I moved away from saying "White people" or "Black people," etc to saying "people racialized as ..." because race categories are settlers' tools. We cannot adequately address racial inequality by using the very tools settlers created to justify inequality.