Social movements from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to #metoo have through their activism rejected the inheritances of the past and created new ways of understanding our contemporary world and acting in the present.
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The auditorium was at capacity in Tampa Bay, Florida for the 2016 North American Society for the Sociology […]
Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as […]
Martin Luther King Day is unique among American holidays, in the sense that it does not commemorate a […]
2015 was a big year for Tropics of Meta – we wrote about subways and parking lots, learned to […]
1994—it wasn’t that long ago. Or was it? It was a time before iPhones, YouTube, Monica Lewinsky, WMDs, […]
As North Carolina has recently fallen into the hands of the far right, it is worth revisiting where […]
America’s partisan political wars have come to North Carolina, as big-money donors have helped bring the most ideologically […]