A mother lifting a child into the air, with the sun setting over the ocean in the background. “Silhouette Photo of a Mother ...

Mike Savage (Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science) wrote an article for The ...

Elizabethe Payne is director of the Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI). Her work focuses on advancing the ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

Canton Winer (Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University) wrote an article for The Conversation on ...

I’m reposting this piece from 2008 in solidarity with Lisa Wade (no relation), whose (non-white) child was described by his teacher as “the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans.” It’s an ...

Welcome to the companion page for our third edited volume of TSP content with W. W. Norton & Company! Below you will find links to free web content which illustrates concepts from the volume’s ...

One manifestation of white supremacy is the use of whiteness as the standard of beauty. When whiteness is considered superior, white people are considered more attractive by definition and, insofar as ...

In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and justify their oppression and exploitation. This is familiar to most Americans as ...

For the last week of December, we’re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2011. In Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, Ori and Rom Brafman discuss a contestant on Qui Veut Gagner ...

Warning: It’s a Hustler cover. May not be safe for your workplace (you see a woman’s legs sticking out of a meat grinder).