Citizen Dwayne: You Can Touch My Hair
Published on Sep 17, 2013 Recently, a group of black women gathered in Union Square to let passersby know that it was okay to touch their hair. An important step towards an open dialogue about race or...
View ArticlePlaylist – Music Videos – Conflict Theory
Filed under: !MUSIC VIDEOS, conflict theory, SOCIOLOGY, THEORY, theory
View ArticleSociology Music Videos – Sociological Imagination
Videos that can illuminate aspects of the sociological imagination, including: making the familiar strange, connecting biography and history, connecting private troubles and public issues, verstehen,...
View ArticleSociology – Race – History – U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Filed under: 1950s, 1960s, 20th century, African Americans, American history, BIAS, conflict theory, HISTORY, race relations, RACE-ETHNICITY, racism, SOCIOLOGY, US Ethnic Groups, Whites
View ArticleMEGAPOST – 1960s McDonald’s Commercials
DJ Academe is amused. Everybody gets in the station wagon and heads to McDonalds “McDonald’s loves people. And people love McDonald’s. Especially little people.” After the Big Game its time for...
View ArticleMEGAPOST: PSAs against smoking while pregnant
Smoking Tobacco & Marijuana During Pregnancy Department of Education. Excerpt from the “And Down Will Come Baby” documentary. “And Down Will Come Baby” is a video about the effects of exposure to...
View ArticleMEGAPOST: 1950s Home Economics Instructional Videos
Home Economics Story, The (1951) “Four years in the lives of four home economics students at Iowa State University.” This swell little educational video was once the subject of a Mystery Science...
View ArticleYouTube Spawns Asian-American Celebrities
Published on Feb 28, 2013 From movies and TV shows to songs on the radio, there have been fewer opportunities in traditional media for Asian-American entertainers. But the Internet, especially...
View ArticleAmericans Visit Israel with Teach for America
Published on Feb 17, 2013 A diverse group of young Americans spent ten days in Israel attending seminars and meetings. Their goal was to learn more about another culture in an attempt to make them...
View ArticleFracking Hell? South Africa’s Gas Dilemma
Published on Feb 20, 2013 Caught between the promise of prosperity that natural gas extraction in the Karoo Basin might bring and concerns about environmental and health impacts, citizen resistance to...
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