"Masculinity, Empathy, and the American High School: A Dialogue with Mike Messner"
In this episode of Sociologist Talking, James welcomes Mike Messner to discuss Mike's new book, 'The High School,' which examines the sociological significance of high school yearbooks from Salinas High School in California, spanning from 1903 to 2024. Mike discusses his inspiration for the book, drawn from his personal connections to the school and his inherited collection of yearbooks. The book analyzes how high school sports, cheerleading, and student activities shape citizenship, identity...
5 Sept 2022
Two Sociologists Walk Into a Bar...
Raul Perez drops by to talk about this new book, The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy. Raúl Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of La Verne, and was previously an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. His scholarship has been awarded and supported by the American Sociological Association, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the Working Cla...
22 Aug 2022
Building Downtown Los Angeles in Their Image!
Join Dr. Leland Saito and I as we discuss his new book "Building Los Angeles; The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America. It is a tale of displacement, gentrification, race, place, and resistance. Dr. Leland Saito grew up in Boyle Heights, and then Montebello. Montebello is right next to Monterey Park, and the changes in that city in the 1980s as it went from White to Latino and Asian American, sparked his interest and became his dissertation and first book. He went t...
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