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14 November 2017
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THE BIG PICTURE: UNHOLY ALLIANCES

SHAMUS KHAN PUBLISHED A PIECE ON THE DIVIDE BETWEEN ELITIST AND POPULIST ATTITUDES IN CULTURE

Sociology Department Chair Shamus Khan wrote a piece for Public Books on Donald Trump, elitist vs populist attitudes, and culture.

Please read here.

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30 October 2017
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Alondra Nelson Interviewed on Indiana Public Radio

Sociologist and former Social Science Dean Alondra Nelson was profiled by Indiana radio station WFIU on her work at the intersection of science, technology, and social inequality.

Full article can be found here.

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17 October 2017
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The Return of Racism?

FREDRICK HARRIS PUBLISHED A PIECE ON RACISM IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE

Dean Fredrick Harris (Political Science) authored an article in Foreign Affairs explaining how structural racism in the United States has contributed to recent racialized violence and how racial polarization might be understood in a broader historic context.

Article can be found here. 

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17 October 2017
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Freedom of Information Archive

Columbia University Libraries joined Matthew J. Connelly Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Columbia, in support of the Freedom of Information Archive, the world’s largest database of declassified documents. In an era of unprecedented government and official secrecy, the Freedom of Information Archive provides public access to a wellspring of knowledge, enabling the dissemination of information worldwide.

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06 October 2017
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SCOTUS Brief Shows Religious Discrimination in the Plain Text of the Muslim Ban

IRWGS Core Faculty member Lila Abu-Lughod was cited in an amicus brief challenging President Donald Trump’s “Muslim and refugee ban”. Muslim Advocates, along with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and law professor Aziz Huq of the U. of Chicago Law School relied extensively on Abu-Lughod’s scholarship in the case, documenting the ways in which references to the term “honor killings” in the ban can only be properly understood as reflections of anti-Muslim animus.

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