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Prudence Carter Elected 2022–2023 President; Mignon Moore Elected Vice President

Prudence L. Carter, University of California-Berkeley, has been elected the 114th ASA President, and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College–Columbia University, has been elected Vice President. Professors Carter and Moore will assume their respective offices in August 2022, following a year of service as President-elect and Vice President-elect (2021–2022). Carter will chair the Program Committee that will shape the ASA Annual Meeting program in Philadelphia, August 18–21, 2023. View the full election results.

 

ASA President and Vice President, 2022 - 2023 (800 x 600)

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Eleven Distinguished Sociologists Win ASA Awards

Congratulations to the 2021 ASA awards winners:

  • Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award: Rogelio Sáenz (University of Texas at San Antonio)
  • Dissertation Award: Gözde Güran (Harvard University, for the dissertation “Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria,” completed at Princeton University) and Elizabeth McKenna (SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, for the dissertation “The Revolution Will be Organized: Power and Protest in Brazil’s New Republic (1988–2018)” completed at University of California-Berkeley)
  • Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Chloe Bird (RAND) and J. Herman Blake (Medical University of South Carolina)
  • Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Susan Ferguson (Grinnell College)
  • Distinguished Scholarly Book Award: Celeste Watkins-Hayes (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) for Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality
  • Jessie Bernard Award: Jyoti Puri (Simmons University)
  • Public Understanding of Sociology Award: Bernice A. Pescosolido (Indiana University-Bloomington) and Rashawn Ray (University of Maryland-College Park)
  • W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke University)

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First ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

ASA recently received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to launch the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG) program. We are pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of DDRIG recipients. Twenty-four exceptional research projects by a diverse group of advanced graduate students were chosen for their intellectual merit­­ and potential broader impacts:

  • Aaron Arredondo (University of Missouri), for Spatializing Critical Migration Studies: Racialized Spaces, Labor Rights, and Immigrant Justice Experiences in the Rural Midwest.
  • Daniel Bolger (Rice University), for Spatial and Cultural Barriers to Social Service Access in Majority Black Neighborhoods.
  • Karolina Dos Santos (Brown University), for Wards of Action: Internal and International Migration to Newark, NJ.
  • Natalia Duarte-Mayorga (University of Pittsburgh), for Understanding the Mobilization of the “Demobilized”: Social Movement Activism among Ex-Guerillas in Colombia.
  • Dylan Farrell-Bryan (University of Pennsylvania), for Deciding to Deport: Judges, Decision-Making, and the Bureaucracy of Removal from Immigration Court.
  • Elly Field (University of Michigan), for School & Neighborhood Racial Composition: How Change Unfolds When Linked by Policy and Preferences.
  • Sarah Garcia (University of Minnesota), for Trends in Disability Among Working-Age Americans: The Role of Labor Market Polarization.
  • Upasana Garnaik (University of Texas at Austin), for Relational Work and the Many Meanings of Property: Women’s Experiences of Family Property Disputes.
  • Annaliese Grant (University of Wisconsin, Madison), for A Multi-Method Approach to Family Media Use and Social Class.
  • Sam Hobson (University of Michigan), for The Intersectional Impact of Power: Social Movement Framing Processes of Black and White Food Justice Activists in NYC.
  • Jared Joseph (University of California, Davis), for The Sociology of Malfeasance, Misfeasance, and Abuses of Power.
  • Jillian LaBranche (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), for Violence in the Classroom: Negotiating Historical Narratives in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
  • Christopher Levesque (University of Minnesota), for Beyond the Map: Immigration Court in New Destinations.
  • Chuncheng Liu (University of California, San Diego), for Contested Algorithms of Trust: A Mixed Methods Comparative Study of Two Social Credit Systems in China.
  • Maretta McDonald (Louisiana State University), for Enforcing Child Support in the Deep South: An Intersectional Approach.
  • Tessa Nápoles (University of California, San Francisco), for Sorting and Stratifying in Housing: The Intersectional Impacts of Race, Gender, and Health on Housing Insecurity.
  • Davon Norris (The Ohio State University), for On the Fringes of Creditworthiness: Innovations in Credit Scores and Inequality in the Algorithmic Age.
  • Ian Peacock (University of California, Los Angeles), for Organizational Causes and Consequences of Delegated Immigration Enforcement in the United States.
  • Alicia Sheares (University of California, Berkeley), for Getting Ahead: The Strategies of Black Tech Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Atlanta.
  • Derek Siegel (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), for Trans Women and Reproductive (In)JusticeHow Race, Class, and Gender Shape Experiences of Family Formation and Parenthood.
  • Adam Storer (University of California, Berkeley), for Do Social Movements Influence How People Evaluate Their Jobs?
  • Melissa Villarreal (University of Colorado, Boulder), for Documenting the Undocumented: How Mexican Immigrants Navigate Long-Term Post-Disaster Recovery.
  • Haley Volpintesta (University of Illinois at Chicago), for The Safe Children’s Act: Interagency Collaboration and the Governance of Youth in the Commercial Sex Trade.
  • Jinpu Wang (Syracuse University), for Is Corruption in the Receiving Country a Barrier or Incentive for Entrepreneurial Migrants?: The Case of Chinese in Ghana.

Each year, up to 25 ASA DDRIG grants of up to $16,000 each will be awarded to support the highest quality, theoretically grounded, and empirically based dissertation research in sociology. Applications for the next round of ASA DDRIG funding are due November 1, 2021. Click here for more information.

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Ten Grants Awarded from ASA Fund to Advance the Discipline

ASA is pleased to announce the 10 awardees from the final round of the ASA Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline program. Awardees received up to $8,000 to support their projects. The FAD program, which focused on supporting innovative proposals with the potential to advance the discipline of sociology, was supported by the National Science Foundation for more than 30 years but was discontinued due to NSF’s shift away from funding small, ongoing seed-grant programs of this kind.

Grant recipients for the final round of FAD include:

  • Xóchitl Bada, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Shannon M. Gleeson, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations for Portable Rights for Migrant Workers: Bringing the Sending State Back Into the Local.
  • Jennifer W. Bouek,University of Delaware, for The Political Economy of Child Care and the Families Within: A COVID Comparison.
  • Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University, and Whitney Laster Pirtle, University of California, Merced, for Leaky Pipelines or Broken Pipes? Mapping Black Sociologists’ Networks, Successes, and Setbacks during Hiring and Promotion.
  • Nicole Fox and Alexa Sardina, California State University-Sacramento, for Remembering Rape: America’s First Memorial to Sexual Violence Survivors.
  • Anne H. Groggel, North Central College, for Mediated Communication and Perceptions of Sexual Consent.
  • Erin Hatton, University at Buffalo-SUNY, for Working for Rehab: Labor, Addiction, and Salvation in Substance Abuse Treatment.
  • James R. Jones, Rutgers University-Newark, for Invisible No More: Inequality and Representation Among Political Professionals.
  • Bianca N. Manago,Vanderbilt University, for The Social Construction and Consequences of Stigma.
  • Ashley C. Rondini, Franklin and Marshall College, for “First Do No Harm”: Sociologically Examining Meso-Level Racism Medicine.
  • Paige Sweet,University of Michigan, for Crisis Inside and Out: Domestic Violence During COVID-19.

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ASA 48th Cohort of Minority Fellowship Program Awardees Begins the Program

ASA welcomes members of Cohort 48 of the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP). The MFPs will participate in cohort activities at the Annual Meeting as they begin their fellowship year. These talented PhD candidates were chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants to receive a stipend and professional development support while writing their dissertations.

  • Asia Bento (Association of Black Sociologists MFP), Graduate Institution: Rice University
  • Maretta McDonald (Sociologists for Women in Society MFP), Graduate Institution: Louisiana State University
  • Philip Pettis (Midwest Sociological Society MFP), Graduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
  • Evelyn Pruneda (Sociologists for Women in Society MFP), Graduate Institution: University of California-Riverside
  • Alejandro Zermeno Alejandro Zermeño (Alpha Kappa Delta MFP), Graduate Institution: University of California-Merced

Click here to read more about the 2021–2022 Fellows.

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ASA Launches Expert Spotlight Program

High school teachers, do you want your students to hear from a sociologist first-hand? Sociology faculty and practitioners, are you looking for ways to engage high school students with the discipline you love? Sign up for ASA’s newly launched High School Expert Spotlight Program, which provides high school instructors the opportunity to request a sociologist for a virtual visit to their classroom. ASA will manage the matches and accept requests and volunteers on a rolling basis.

Areas of expertise can include substantive issues in sociology, such as race, class, or gender, or methodological areas of focus. Experts could also explore areas such as: What is a sociologist? What is a day at work like for a sociologist?

Only those who are regular members or high school teacher members of ASA are eligible for the program. Request an expert guest or volunteer to be an expert guest by signing up here: High School Expert Spotlight Sign-Up.

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Diamond and Johnson Appointed Editors of Sociology of Education

It is with distinct pleasure that I introduce John B. Diamond and Odis Johnson, Jr. as the new editors of Sociology of Education. I have had the pleasure of knowing both of them for nearly 20 years and both have been active scholars and activists in addressing educational and social inequality. A methodologically diverse pair, Diamond is a seasoned qualitative scholar while Johnson brings deep critical quantitative skills and insights. Together they have been leading the push to understand and intervene on inequalities in ways that are not simply interesting to academics, but also meaningful to communities and practitioners.

John B. Diamond, Editor, Sociology of EducationJohn B. Diamond

Diamond is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in urban education and professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He serves as the faculty lead for Forward Madison which supports new educators in Madison schools. For decades, Diamond has produced scholarship and interventions into suburban school inequality and challenged race theorizing within the sociology of education. He has worked with districts, teachers, and grassroots organizations to improve access to quality education. He has co-authored two books Distributed Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2010) with James Spillane and Despite the Best Intentions (Oxford University Press, 2015) with Amanda Lewis. He is currently working on his third book as the solo author. Diamond holds a PhD from Northwestern University and has held faculty appointments at Northwestern University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Odis Johnson, Jr., Editor, Sociology of Education Odis Johnson, Jr.

Johnson is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he holds appointments in the department of health policy and management, the school of education, and sociology department. He serves as the executive director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. He also directs the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM). Johnson has produced a diverse body of scholarship which covers topics from the importance on neighborhoods on a range of health outcomes, to how gender shapes schooling experiences. His scholarship has been discussed in a range of publications such as Forbes and Ed Week. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and has held faculty appointments at Washington University in Saint Louis, University of Maryland, and the University of California at Davis.

Diamond and Johnson are well poised to build on the journal’s strengths while also expanding its authorship and readership given their social networks and professional ties. In their respective work, they have never been afraid to bring in interdisciplinary perspectives to complement sociological thinking. The future of the journal looks bright with them at the helm.

By R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York University

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Schieman and Bierman Appointed Editors of Society and Mental Health

Scott Schieman and Alex Bierman will become the editors of Society and Mental Health (SMH), the journal of the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, beginning January 2022. Since the journal’s inaugural issue in 2011, SMH has gained prominence in the field as an outlet for leading research in the sociology of mental health.

scott-schieman.jpgScott Schieman

Schieman received his PhD in 1997 from the University of New Hampshire. He began his academic career at the University of Miami before moving to the University of Maryland where he collaborated with Leonard I. Pearlin as an assistant and then associate research scientist. In 2004, Schieman moved to the University of Toronto where he was promoted to professor in 2006. He was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Social Contexts in Health in 2011. Since 2015, he has been chair of the sociology department at the University of Toronto.

Schieman is well-known for his research in a number of areas of the sociology of mental health. He has published extensively on the social context of work and its impact on mental health. He has also published on the role of psychosocial resources in mediating and moderating the effects of stressors on a variety of mental health outcomes. In addition, Schieman has contributed to the literature on the roles that religious experiences play in influencing individuals’ mental health. Over his career, he has edited two books, published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed several chapters to edited books. In recognition of his achievements, Schieman was named the recipient of the 2018 Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health.

Schieman has extensive editorial experience. He has been a deputy editor of Society and Mental Health since the journal’s inception. From 2010–2013, he was editor of The Sociology of Religion. He has served as deputy editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and has been on the editorial boards of other sociological publications.

He has also had considerable experience with bringing his research to the media. Schieman published an Op-Ed on women and work in the New York Times and has been interviewed frequently by the print and broadcast media. In 2012, Time magazinefeatured Schieman’s research on “the stress of higher status” in a cover story as one of “the 10 ideas that are changing your life.”

Alex Bierman, Editor, Society and Mental HealthAlex Bierman

Bierman received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Maryland. After his first academic appointment at California State University, Northridge, Bierman accepted a position at the University of Calgary in 2009 where he is currently an associate professor of sociology

Bierman has published in the sociology of mental health on issues concerning mental health across the life course, psychosocial influences on mental health, the impact of religion on mental health, and mental health and military experiences. Recently, he and Schieman published a series of articles on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Along with Carol S. Aneshensel and Jo C. Phelan, Bierman was editor of The Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (second edition), which has registered almost 450,000 chapter downloads as of March 2021. This has clearly been one of the most influential volumes to have been published in the sociology of mental health.

Over his career, Bierman has published over 40 papers in peer reviewed journals. His work has appeared in Society and Mental Health, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, the Journals of Gerontology, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, among others.

Bierman has also served as deputy editor of the Sociology of Religion and contributed his expertise on the editorial boards of Society and Mental Health, the Journals of Gerontology,and Social Psychology Quarterly.

The Future of Society and Mental Health

Schieman and Bierman have some exciting ideas for SMH. Their first priority is to focus on publishing only the highest quality research. They will give priority to papers that: (1) address timely and relevant issues in society; (2) speak to central theoretical questions or debates; and (3) use cutting-edge methodological approaches. The focus on timely research is especially pressing in the context of the global pandemic and the associated economic downturns experienced in many nations. Societies will undoubtedly be shaped by the fallout from the pandemic for years to come. To bring greater focus to the mental health ramifications of these issues, the new editors will encourage—and fast track—manuscripts that address some of the most pressing short- and longer-term effects of the pandemic.

Schieman and Bierman will bring attention to the journal by addressing timely and relevant issues through a series of guest editorials. These will not only involve respected leaders in the sociology of mental health, but also include accomplished scholars in other fields of sociology who will be asked to describe issues they believe are particularly pressing or relevant in the sociological study of mental health.

A second part of their vision involves the rapid and wide dissemination of SMH research. Schieman and Bierman will promote selected publications with supplemental policy briefs that can be disseminated to the broader public, media, and policymakers. They also plan to start and host a new podcast that will highlight key SMH research articles or themes represented by clusters of SMH publications. This new initiative in public sociology and broader engagement will elevate SMH into conversations about societal impacts on mental health.

Increasing the international scope and interest in the journal will reinforce SMH as a leading outlet for mental health research. Schieman and Bierman will increase the membership of the editorial board to scholars across the globe and plan two special sections that will emphasize regional or cross-national issues that may be underserved in current sociological literature.

We look forward to Schieman and Bierman’s stewardship of SMH and to the promotion of research in the sociology of mental health.

By William R. Avison, Western University

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Journals in Transition: New Contact Information for SMH, SOE, and SRE

Society and Mental Health: As of August 1, 2021, all correspondence should be sent to the new editors, Alex Bierman and Scott Schieman, [email protected]. Manuscripts should be submitted here. Correspondence about revised manuscripts should be sent until December 1, 2021, to the outgoing editor, Susan Roxburgh, (330) 672-3125; [email protected].

Sociology of Education: As of July 1, 2021, all correspondence should be sent to the new co-editors, John Diamond and Odis Johnson, Jr.; email [email protected]. Manuscripts should be submitted here. Correspondence about revised manuscripts should also be submitted to Diamond and Johnson as of July 1, 2021, although decisions on revised manuscripts will be made in consultation with the outgoing editor, Linda Renzulli.

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: As of August 1, 2021, correspondence should be directed to the incoming editors, B. Brian Foster ([email protected]) and James Thomas ([email protected]). Manuscripts should be submitted here. Over the summer, the incoming editors will be working alongside the outgoing editors, David Embrick and David Brunsma, to ensure a smooth editorial transition.

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Data on 2020 ASA Journal Submissions and Decisions Available for Review

As scholars make decisions about where to submit their manuscripts for potential publication, it can be helpful to know have a good understanding of the frequency and timing of editorial decisions at different outlets. Annually, ASA editors provide these data for review. The Summary of Editorial Activity table reports on decisions, as of April 1, 2021, for manuscripts submitted in the 2020 calendar year. Narrative reports for these journals and the ASA Rose Series are also available.

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Attend the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting; Imagine We Went to Chicago—Regional Spotlight on Visualizing Black Chicago Lived Experiences

Participate in the ASA Virtual Annual Meeting, August 6–10, 2021.

We look forward to hosting a robust and exciting virtual meeting focused on President Aldon Morris’s theme “Emancipatory Sociology: Rising to the Du Boisian Challenge,” including the Presidential Address titled “A Sociology for the 21st Century: Incorporating the Du Boisian Challenge.”

Browse online the entire Virtual Annual Meeting program, including Plenary Sessions, Book Forums, Workshops, Regional Spotlights (read about featured example below), Thematic Sessions, and more. Log in to the Virtual Annual Meeting portal using your ASA user name and password and selecting “View Online Program.” Setting a bookmark in your browser for the portal is an easy way to quickly access the online program. Learn more about the Virtual Annual Meeting and register today.

Regional Spotlight on Visualizing Black Chicago Lived Experiences: Du Boisian Methods, Challenges, and Soulfulness

The 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting’s theme, “Emancipatory Sociology: Rising to the Du Boisian Challenge,” highlights the “radical roots” of the discipline in systematically documenting and analyzing oppression while simultaneously using that knowledge to dismantle inhumane systems.

Our session, “Emancipatory Sociology and the Du Boisian Challenge: Centering Black Women and Girls’ Liberation in Chicago during COVID-19, Neighborhood Gun Violence and Police Murders,” captures the challenges and soulfulness of Du Bois’ strivings to project the beautiful and powerful humanity of Black Americans.

Our exhibit will showcase Black Chicagoans inspired by Du Boisian methods of data visualizations and portraits at the 1900 Paris Exposition and his goal of emancipatory sociology. Our goal is the same. We will document the visible and unseen gruesomeness of systemic racial trauma that may require new assumptions and different research questions. We will highlight a continuum of resistance and soulful resiliency, arguing for an integration of methods and theoretical perspectives that hold the wisdom of the many interdisciplinary scholars and citizen/community scientists. We believe the vision and wisdom of the many can ignite a Chicago Renaissance and the third Reconstruction.

Du Boisian Challenges

The Black Chicago exhibit will turn the lens of emancipatory sociology on Black death and liberation with (1) a portrait of Bertha Purnell and her son Maurice (a homicide victim); (2) a data visualization of youth death by suicide; and (3) a data visualization from 12 million tweets that includes calls for justice after police killings and other deaths (e.g., Ahmaud Arbery). These forms of Black death may have emotional, physical, and spiritual ripple effects that cannot be captured, or can they? A Du Boisian challenge is to work with community members (as citizen/community scientists) to document the totality and intersecting nature of their racial trauma. This new knowledge should shift assumptions about what is and what is not possible. Ida B. Wells-Barnett exploded assumptions about Black criminality as the cause of lynchings. Her multiple-methods approach asked new questions and created new theoretical understandings. She exposed and explained the contradictory logic of lynching at a time when the U.S. was selling itself on the international stage as a model democracy. Like Wells-Barnett, our exhibit provides a sacred window into witnessing Black racial trauma (seen and unseen, spoken and unspoken). This sacred view challenges us to reimagine our assumptions, data, and theories.

A Du Boisian challenge is to capture the seen and unseen ripple effects from one death and determine if they grow exponentially with each exposure to death or near deaths. This movement between biographical and social forces reflects C. Wright Mills’ (1959) sociological imagination.

Regarding exposure to death, research by LeBouthillier and colleagues (2015) on a national sample indicates that 33 percent of adults who unexpectedly lose someone close to them experience suicidal ideation. In nine percent of these cases, they attempt death by suicide. In Mendenhall and Butler’s documentary “What’s Left Behind?,” several mothers who lost adult children to gun violence describe an overwhelming grief that included physical agony. One mother stated, “After that [death of son], I just felt like I didn’t want to live.” Between 2014 and 2020, 33 children 17 years of age and younger in Cook County, Illinois, experienced intense feeling of not wanting to live anymore, resulting in their deaths from suicide. We attempt to honor the lives of these (our) children with the hand painted and crafted flowers data visualization by artist Daniele Hunter.

The final data visualization by Lydia Odilinye and Ruby Mendenhall concludes our sacred journey of looking at Black death through the lens of emancipatory sociology. The data are from a collaboration between Mendenhall, Odilinye and a team of scholars in the U.S. and in Canada (Simon Fraser University and the University of Ottawa). This three-dimensional word cloud reflects the most common co-occurring words in over 12 million tweets associated with over 25 hashtags (e.g., #BreannaTaylor, #GeorgeFloyd, and #StephonClark) about Black death in the U.S. The larger words were tweeted most often. The tweets reflect the vulnerability, resistance, and soulfulness of the Black experience historically and currently with words such as “mental health, abolish, never forget, peace and love.”

Turning My Loss Into Activism

Turning My Loss into Activism Feature Image“I am from Chicago’s West side and I will be a co-panelist. I am a mother of five children and a grandmother of 10. I was a nurse (LPN) for 40 years but ended my career after my son’s death in 2017. My story conveys an American tragedy playing out across the country. Maurice was my youngest child. He was a triplet. He had moved his family from Chicago to Elgin to get away from ‘old habits.’ He was in Chicago for the day. Approximately one hour after he left my home, he was killed. Months later, I found myself following a car for nearly a mile because I thought the driver was involved in the death of my son. I was mistaken. After getting myself together, I started Mothers Ona Mission 28, a platform that supports and encourages survivors of violence through health and wellness. Another mother who lost a child to gun violence stated that she saw a dramatic mental health decline in her son after his brother was killed. She sorrowfully stated that one bullet killed both of her sons. Starting Mothers Ona Mission was a way to be able to help people go through that initial process of losing someone that you love. It is our hope that somehow if people get the services and support they need, the cycle of violence will stop.”

— Bertha Purnell, MothersOnAMission28

(Photo by: Sylk Marti Studios)

Du Boisian Soulfulness

How do we capture the rich contours of over 400 years of soulful resiliency? How do we capture the large and small Black coping mechanisms in response to the gruesome parade of Black bodies shot with hands up, suffocated while calling for a deceased mother, and killed while sleeping in bed? How do we capture the emotional pain of trying not to let the first tear fall, which will open the floodgates, after the realization that we have to learn the name and story of another precious soul?

The Du Boisian challenge demands new methods, questions and people (citizen/community scientists and the youth) to understand the truly horrific price extracted by “the strange career” of structural violence. We may need to shift assumptions and look at the intersection of physical death and emotional pain, especially with higher COVID-19 cases in communities of color? Co-panelist Geraldine Williams, a grandmother in Chicago, will share her experiences with the disease and its aftermath. Helping young people get the help they need is what 16-year-old citizen scientist and co-panelist, Madison Stroter is doing in Chicago with the wellness phone app that she helped to create. Join us as we center the lives of Black women and girls. The wisdom of the many can ignite movement from racism to renaissance to reconstruction. Co-panelist Bertha Purnell, a citizen activist, will share her personal experience of losing a son, which led to her launching a platform to support and encourage survivors of violence through health and wellness. (Read sidebar “Turning My Loss into Activism,” by Purnell.)

By Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Associate Dean at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine; and Tennille Allen, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department, Lewis University

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