My paper "It’s the Economy: The Effect of Economic Policy Appeals on Latino Independents" has been conditionally accepted at Political Behavior! Link here: derekwakefield.com/_files/ugd/7f6… (1/3)

Leading the new November issue of the American Journal of Sociology is my article on the influence of a small group of Iraqi exiles in making regime change in Iraq the official foreign policy of the US. The Iraqi case yields insights into this particularly fraught historical

yes! I theorize this in my SRE article on Latino Republicans

The last thing you see before your ports and utilities are sold to BlackRock

Only has a career because of a black woman

I'm EXCITED TO SHARE that my St. Louis ethnography is under contract with Princeton University Press! In "Shepherds and Kings" I show how the relationship between diversity projects and donors creates organizational mission drift and why that matters for all of us.

a very rich text indeed

To my beloved left community. I voted early today. I did not vote 4 my wildest dreams (never have) but I damn sure voted against my worst nightmare. Let's defeat DT on Nov. 5 & continue 2 fight 4 Gaza & ourselves on Nov. 6. I cannot 'endorse' Harris but I CAN say no to US fascism

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🚨 Excited to share my new Social Problems article that rethinks the fields engagement w/ Liberation Sociology! When interviewing Black Millennials about their racial, religious, & political lives during BLM, liberation came up a lot. This study examines those narratives. #SocAF

If Harris wins, Musk will have lost a foolish, existential gamble, and the natural consequence of that should be the end of his chapter of history

In non-election news, my co-author (Anna Fox) and I have a paper out in @Gend_Soc! It's called "Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct their Gender Ideologies" …urnals-sagepub-com.proxy.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1177/08… In it we argue...🧵

ever since i was a little girl, i knew i wanted rights

I guess Devah Pager was right… a white guy with a criminal record has no issues getting hired.

there are no “precise” ethnic/racial classifications. there are only discourses, practices, and processes of categorization that will always fall short of tracking empirical reality. I think Mora’s (2014) work highlights why the category was intentionally made “ambiguous”

It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8

Nobody wants to talk about how much it hurts