Mastodawn

Many of those decisions have overturned lower courts with little-to-no explanation, prompting sharp & unusual criticism from a few lower court #judges….

#SCOTUS has allowed the #Trump admin in recent months to cancel foreign #aid & #PublicHealth funding; temporarily fire the leadership of many #independent agencies; stop & interrogate people about their #immigration status based on their apparent #ethnicity, #language or presence at a particular location;

#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt

Wen Dec 30

Polls are just polls, but this does concern me - ethnic nationality rather than civic. But at least the number who put ‘white' as a criteria was low (3%). I am aware of some Scots who take the same view, but not a large number (although that probably represents my own circle of acquaintances)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/29/number-people-britons-must-be-born-in-uk-rising-study

#Nationality #UK #Ethnicity

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows

Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

The Guardian

ryn Dec 27

I tried to do a search on this and now I'm more confused than ever. Most places combine the two into one question but the energy grant separates them So I could use help on #race #ethnicity I mean I'm both Native and Caucasian. Depending upon who you ask and what season, I look like one or the other or both. My hair is lighter but I've got the native cheekbones etc. Skin tone fluctuates In my heart, I'm native but I'm not fully immersed in the culture- learning my way through. Tbc

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Dec 21

🇺🇸 📖 ** The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate**

"_Kim’s analysis shows that throughout US history, the opportunity for belonging for some immigrants was predicated on the exclusion of others._"

🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo257660942.html.

#USA #UnitedStates #History #Sociology #Race #Ethnicity #Immigration #Migration #Nonfiction #Books #Academia

The Unruly Facts of Race

Reveals the surprising historical roots of US immigration policy and discourse. Unfortunately, we’re all too familiar with the US’s legacy of maligning immigrants. Some Americans see immigrants as inherently threatening, a blank screen onto which the nation’s worst fears are projected. But this phenomenon is neither timeless nor static. Instead, it arose and transformed alongside the unprecedented arrival of immigrants in the early twentieth century—and the federal government’s response. In The Unruly Facts of Race, sociologist Sunmin Kim explains how American ideas about race and ethnicity were transformed in the early twentieth century as an unintended consequence of anti-immigrant mobilization. Kim presents a wealth of archival evidence, including the proceedings of the 1907 Dillingham Commission, to reconstruct how competing racialized visions of nationhood evolved in the early twentieth-century immigration debate. Immigration restrictionist politicians believed that the United States should be a White, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant nation. However, when they mobilized researchers—some of whom were women and/or immigrants—to gather data at a massive scale to rationalize their aims, they were met with unruly facts that did not support their racial project. Newer European immigrants, as the data showed, were not much different from descendants of earlier immigrants from northern Europe. When facts failed to support the vilification of immigrants, exclusionist politicians instead turned to race as a marker of ineluctable difference to justify their aims. This led to a new principle of national belonging: the United States transitioned to a country that encompassed various European groups, including Catholics and Jews, but excluded non-White immigrants, as they were deemed too different to become a part of the nation. Kim’s analysis shows that throughout US history, the opportunity for belonging for some immigrants was predicated on the exclusion of others. His focus on the role of facts in the early twentieth century provides a refreshing take on why the so-called “nation of immigrants” has always demonized some immigrants while cherishing others, highlighting the selection and control of immigrants as the core principles of the American nation-building project. Amid a vitriolic explosion of American immigration discourse, Kim offers a needed corrective to and context for debates around who belongs in the United States.

University of Chicago Press

Columbus - Feeds Dec 18

The Silent Decline: Native American Student Enrollment at Ohio State - Xiyonne McCullough

Title of Project

The Independent Student Voice of Ohio State

The Lantern Projects

Art Dec 17

What colour is fashionable skin? It's Nude.

Until very recently, the fashion industry's stance was that only a peach-pink (White) skin tone could be called nude. For example, in 2010, the British editor of Elle said nude is "a defined colour. It’s white nude, not black nude". Nude is also the name of Pantone colour 12-0911.

But in 2013, major fashion house Christian Louboutin was first to launch a shoe range in 5 skin tones, from dark to light. Skin-toned shoes, particularly if high-heeled, make the wearer's leg look longer since the leg and foot blend into the shoe. Louboutin's popular Nudes Collection later expanded to 7 tones with various heels. The shoe range continues to pose questions about racialism and to challenge the fashion industry to redefine "nude" so it includes people of all ethnicities.

See each of Louboutin's napa nude Fifi shoes up close: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?kw_object_type=Shoe&page=1&page_size=15&q_actor=Louboutin

#design #art #fashion #racialism #ethnicity #skintone #nude #shoe #footwear #VictoriaAndAlbert #museum

Centre for Population Change Dec 15

👩‍💻Catch up on our last #CPCCGWebinar of 2025

Jan Paul Heisig from @WZB_Berlin joined us last week to discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany. Grab a coffee and take a look ⤵️
https://youtu.be/gYeRsCwvFFw?si=4irK0uO5b8I5lL4H

#Inequality #Access #Ethnicity #Migration #Insurance #Appointments #Medicine #Demography #Sociology #socialscience

Ethnic and social inequalities in access to health care: Evidence from a field experiment in Germany

YouTube

Bruce Mirken Dec 9

From @gregggonsalves: 'Pretending that everyone starts their journeys from the same place in our society is farcical. Access to opportunity in the US is tied to #race and #ethnicity, income, and family background, and it is not a level playing field. As Stephen Jay Gould said ... “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”' https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-health-no-apologies/#

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 5

“Although ‘apparent #ethnicity alone’ isn’t enough to detain someone, it can be ‘a relevant factor,’ Justice #BrettKavanaugh wrote in a lone concurring opinion, calling that only ‘common sense’.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Politi...

Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?

Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.

The Atlantic

Centre for Population Change Dec 4

📍Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar on Thurs 11 Dec

Jan Heisig from @WZB_Berlin will discuss evidence from a large nationwide field experiment to assess #discrimination in accessing #healthcare in #Germany

🧑‍🏫Join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/954/CPC_CG_Webinar__Jan_Paul_Heisig

#Inequality #Healthcare #Access #Discrimination #Ethnicity #Migration #Insurance #Appointments #Germany #Medicine #Demography #Sociology