Natasha Warikoo
@nwarikoo.bsky.social
Author. Passionate about racial equity in education.
Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.
www.natashawarikoo.com
Professor of Sociology, Tufts University.
www.natashawarikoo.com
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Natasha Warikoo
@nwarikoo.bsky.social
· May 21
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Annual Reviews
Affirmative action began as a bipartisan policy to address racial inequality in the workplace and in higher education. Given its small footprint in college admissions (most colleges never practiced it...
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The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥
From a renowned extremism expert, Man Up shows how misogyny drives mass violence, offering strategies that we all—including parents, teachers, counselors—can use to quell this rising tide. @milleridriss.bsky.social
Out now. Learn more about this important book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now. Learn more about this important book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s pub day! Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for this amazing animated announcement 🔥
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Get out and vote TODAY, Boston! 🗳️
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September 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Get out and vote TODAY, Boston! 🗳️
Check where you vote at wheredoivotema.com and find more voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote.
Check where you vote at wheredoivotema.com and find more voting info at michelleforboston.com/vote.
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New #Identities Symposium:
'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter
In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...
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'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter
In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New #Identities Symposium:
'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter
In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter
In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
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'The benefits of longitudinal ethnography'
Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'The benefits of longitudinal ethnography'
Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Book Review by @nwarikoo.bsky.social, from #Identities' latest symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
I loved revisiting the lives of the young men in The Asian Gang for this review of the Asian Gang Revisited. The book came out just as I started graduate school and I learned a lot from it back then as well as now!
New #Identities Symposium:
'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter
In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
'The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities' by Claire Alexander, with contributions from Natasha Warikoo, Shamim Miah & Marcus Anthony Hunter
In our latest issue:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@bloomsburypol.bsky.social @nwarikoo.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I loved revisiting the lives of the young men in The Asian Gang for this review of the Asian Gang Revisited. The book came out just as I started graduate school and I learned a lot from it back then as well as now!
Please join a Book Forum discussion of my book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools at the ASA conference in less than 2 weeks! Monday 2 pm Central I can't wait! @soceducation.bsky.social www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...
Book Forum | American Sociological Association
Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality (Session Organizer) Aaron Benanav; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Willa Luhr,
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July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Please join a Book Forum discussion of my book Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools at the ASA conference in less than 2 weeks! Monday 2 pm Central I can't wait! @soceducation.bsky.social www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...
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things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.
June 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.
many congratulations you guys! So well deserved!!
June 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
many congratulations you guys! So well deserved!!
All of this makes me feel disconnected from those I'm communicating with, whether close friends or people I've never even met. It's the mere possibility of AI mediating interactions. I can't see how we go back, either. 4/4
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
All of this makes me feel disconnected from those I'm communicating with, whether close friends or people I've never even met. It's the mere possibility of AI mediating interactions. I can't see how we go back, either. 4/4
And now my new iphone uses AI to summarize text threads. But I want to hear my friends in their authentic voices! I want to feel them in the room, and notice the nuance with which they write. The AI summary takes that away in the name of efficiency. 3/4
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
And now my new iphone uses AI to summarize text threads. But I want to hear my friends in their authentic voices! I want to feel them in the room, and notice the nuance with which they write. The AI summary takes that away in the name of efficiency. 3/4
It's made me realize just how much I value and appreciate the way that words connect us. I didn't realize this until AI was constantly in the backdrop, whether or not someone has used it. 2/4
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's made me realize just how much I value and appreciate the way that words connect us. I didn't realize this until AI was constantly in the backdrop, whether or not someone has used it. 2/4
As much as I try to be open-minded, I feel a real loss with AI's presence. During any ritual (most recently, graduation & other inspirational speeches), rather than take in the beauty and complexity of a speaker's words, I keep wondering if it truly coming from their soul or from AI. 1/4
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As much as I try to be open-minded, I feel a real loss with AI's presence. During any ritual (most recently, graduation & other inspirational speeches), rather than take in the beauty and complexity of a speaker's words, I keep wondering if it truly coming from their soul or from AI. 1/4
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This is a must read/cite/teach article from @nwarikoo.bsky.social.
The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Annual Reviews
Affirmative action began as a bipartisan policy to address racial inequality in the workplace and in higher education. Given its small footprint in college admissions (most colleges never practiced it...
www.annualreviews.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is a must read/cite/teach article from @nwarikoo.bsky.social.
My hope is that the piece will help some make sense of the success of the attacks on affirmative action and the problems with the diversity frame. I hope many scholars are developing studies to understand the short- and long-term impacts of the decision, which I believe will be profound. 4/4
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My hope is that the piece will help some make sense of the success of the attacks on affirmative action and the problems with the diversity frame. I hope many scholars are developing studies to understand the short- and long-term impacts of the decision, which I believe will be profound. 4/4
The reverse discrimination frame has proved even more powerful than I understood when I finished the piece pre-inauguration. Note today's White House discussion about white Afrikaners, despite every other refugee/asylum-seeking group being rejected and some even removed. 3/4
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The reverse discrimination frame has proved even more powerful than I understood when I finished the piece pre-inauguration. Note today's White House discussion about white Afrikaners, despite every other refugee/asylum-seeking group being rejected and some even removed. 3/4
Who knew that even the diversity frame--which many, including myself, critiqued--would come under systematic attack by the federal government. And that Trump would rescind Johnson's 1965 EO requiring affirmative action in firms with federal contracts. 2/4
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Who knew that even the diversity frame--which many, including myself, critiqued--would come under systematic attack by the federal government. And that Trump would rescind Johnson's 1965 EO requiring affirmative action in firms with federal contracts. 2/4
The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions | Annual Reviews
Affirmative action began as a bipartisan policy to address racial inequality in the workplace and in higher education. Given its small footprint in college admissions (most colleges never practiced it...
www.annualreviews.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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On this Earth Day 2025, it seems like a good day to remind everyone about how we are going to / need to Save Ourselves. Check out my TEDTalk for details 👇
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On this Earth Day 2025, it seems like a good day to remind everyone about how we are going to / need to Save Ourselves. Check out my TEDTalk for details 👇
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Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back
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I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
April 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
This is the book that lays out just world theory with evidence (lots since then, too): a.co/d/6iPNTJE
Amazon.com
a.co
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is the book that lays out just world theory with evidence (lots since then, too): a.co/d/6iPNTJE
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We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
March 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...
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Guy out of frame: "You don't look like police. Why are you hiding your faces? Why are you hiding your faces?"
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Guy out of frame: "You don't look like police. Why are you hiding your faces? Why are you hiding your faces?"
Video of arrest of Tufts international student today is harrowing. I am speechless. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
Video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student - The Boston Globe
Within seconds, five officers surrounded a Tufts PhD student from Turkey, and she was pleading with them, according to a security camera recording of the arrest obtained by the Globe.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Video of arrest of Tufts international student today is harrowing. I am speechless. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...