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Subprime Auto Loans: The Bottom Feeders Are Back
Miss A Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car: Auto loans to borrowers considered subprime, those with credit scores at or below 640, have spiked in the last five years. The jump has been driven in large...
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“The Wire”, Sex Composition and Masculinity
As great a series as The Wire is, one of its major shortcomings is its lack of attention to women and girls. This does not mean The Wire fails to cover gender in the areas of crime, politics, education...
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The Walking Dead – Return of the Exiled Woman
[The whole TWD blogging series is here.] So, when we last discussed TWD, several things had happened: Woodbury had collapsed, Andrea had died, and the Governor had abandoned his survivors. This was all...
View ArticlePost Election Hangover
Liberals and Democrats are crying in their milk, Conservative and Republicans are celebrating what seems like a clean sweep of the U.S. 2014 mid-terms, and we at the Cranky Sociologists blog are busy...
View ArticleThe Genius of Howard Becker
Great time for this article to appear in the latest issue of The New Yorker, right at the beginning of the semester. For students in Intro, deviance, criminology or punishment, new students, or even...
View Article“I, too, am Auckland” Trailer
A preview of something we have been working on at The University of Auckland. Full videos coming soon.
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I, too, am Auckland
For the past six months, six University of Auckland students and I have been working steadily on a video project inspired by African American students at Harvard University who initiated the “I, too,...
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Questions Regarding I, Too, Am Auckland
Since release of the I, Too, Am Auckland videos (all three of which can be viewed here), a number of questions and critiques have been raised, which this post will attempt to address. Issue 1: Was...
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Check out the new movie, Haoles (a.k.a., Aloha)
[One correction in this otherwise spot on video: it says “Only 30% of Hawaiians are white.” Actually, 0% of Hawaiians are white. Around 30% of all residents in Hawai’i are white.]
View ArticleI, Too, Am Auckland Returns
Now updated, here are all four new videos produced by the “I, Too, Am Auckland” team. This iteration’s theme is titled, “CONVERSATIONS.” We hope the videos illustrate how critical dialogue can help us...
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