When, in 1906, the German sociologist Werner Sombart quipped that in America, “all socialist utopias came to nothing on roast beef and apple pie,” he offered a ...
Matt Wray
Matt Wray is an associate professor of sociology at Temple University. He is the author of Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness (Duke University Press, 2006) and editor of Cultural Sociology: An Introductory Reader (Norton, 2014). He is currently working on a book about self-destruction in the American suicide belt to be published by Oxford University Press. 
Trump Syllabus 3.0
This course explores one of the most unanticipated events in modern political history: the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America. We ask three basic questions: How did Trump win? Where …
Close to the Bone: An Interview with Filmmaker Debra Granik
Debra Granik is the director and co-writer of Winter’s Bone, which was nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her latest film, the documentary Stray Dog ...
Race: Past, Present, and Future Tense
“White culture has been on the fritz lately and I’m not sure it is coming back.” So wrote one of my undergraduate students on her final exam a few years back. I remember laughing out loud at the ...