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  • Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii

    The “aloha spirit” may hold a deep lesson for all of us.

  • Interracial Marriages among Asian Americans in the U.S. West, 1880-1954

    My work is about the first two generations of Chinese and Japanese Americans who married whites in the U.S. West between 1880 and 1954.

  • The Case for Scholarly Reparations

    The Case for Scholarly Reparations Berkeley Journal of Sociology 2016-01-11 Julian Go, Professor of Sociology Boston University Race, the history of sociology, and the marginalized man – lessons from Aldon Morris’ book “The Scholar Denied” If Aldon Morris in The Scholar Denied is right, then everything I learned as a sociology PhD student at the…

  • The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

    The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology University of California Press August 2015 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520276352 Adobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520960480 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520960480 Aldon D. Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois In this groundbreaking book, Aldon…

  • Robert Park’s Marginal Man: The Career of a Concept in American Sociology

    Robert Park’s Marginal Man: The Career of a Concept in American Sociology Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research ISSN 2076-8214 (print) ISSN 2078-1938 (online) Volume 4, Number 2 (2012) pages 199-217 Chad Alan Goldberg, Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Who now reads Robert Park? The answer, it turns out, is that many still…

  • Human Migration and the Marginal Man

    Human Migration and the Marginal Man The American Journal of Sociology Volume 33, Number 6 (May 1928) pages 881-893 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history.…

  • Civilisation, Culture and the Hybrid Self in the work of Robert Ezra Park

    Civilisation, Culture and the Hybrid Self in the work of Robert Ezra Park Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2006) pages 413-433 DOI: 10.1080/07256860600936911 Vince Marotta, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Contemporary discussions on hybridity in cultural and ethnic studies have overlooked the work of the Chicago sociologist Robert…

  • Mentality of Racial Hybrids

    Mentality of Racial Hybrids American Journal of Sociology Volume 36, Number 4 (January 1931) pages 534-551 DOI: 10.1086/215474 Robert E. Park (1864-1944), Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Racial hybrids are one of the natural and inevitable results of migration and the consequent mingling of divergent racial stocks.  The motives bringing peoples of divergent races…

  • Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory

    Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory Social Forces Volume 88, Number 1 (September 2009) ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0243 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Kathryn J. Lively, Associate Professor, Sociology Dartmouth College Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents…