Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

Associate Professor of Sociology | Tweets == my own. Retweet != endorsement. https://t.co/e3kApXMZyw Joined July 2010

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola

4 weeks ago

Black people survived things no one should have to endure

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Emmanuel Felton @emmanuelfelton

a month ago

A peer-reviewed study found Black patients matched with Black doctors were 27% less likely to die in the hospital. A separate study found Black residents live longer in counties with more Black primary care physicians. “Find A Black Doctor” exists because the disparities are real

Black Enterprise @blackenterprise

a month ago

A white doctor based in Colorado has teamed up with a conservative legal group to sue the online directory, “Find A Black Doctor,” for allegedly discriminating against physicians based on... dlvr.it/TSfSj0

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

2 months ago

These three things render racism as a system invisible, and sustain the status quo.

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2 months ago

(3) the overuse and misuse of the term "identity." This term has become a way to perform backdoor essentialism. It reduces socially constructed attributes as if they are hobbies (backpacker, kayaker, mountain climber, etc ).

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

2 months ago

Three things that limit our understanding of racism and race in the United States.

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

2 months ago

This is special to me. My last talk of the semester. I spent 9 1/2 years at the University of Nebraska. This is virtual and the website includes a link to register. news.unl.edu/article/willia…

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

2 months ago

2/2 If these types of statements tickle your intellectual fantasy, then you may want to attend this on Thursday. 👇🏾

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2 months ago

1/2 "Race" is not a predictor or risk factor to hypothesize that an outcome will happen; "race" is the outcome that tells us that something has already happened. Something == racism as a system and racial as processes (e.g., racialization).

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

2 months ago

@FamilyHealthBen No. I took a break. Things were getting weird. I love what y'all are doing at @FamiliesUSA and I see you're a Huskers fan? If so, you should check this out:

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

2 months ago

Putting my metaphorical feet in the water of X to gauge the temperature. I've missed three academic engagements.

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

12 months ago

Causal modeling limits our theoretical and analytical imagination regarding racial inequality. Settler colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade caused racial inequality. Our job now is to understand the mechanisms maintaining racial inequality.

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

a year ago

The study of racism is how disinformation becomes normalized via ideologies, beliefs, laws, and social practices. And that disinformation gets stitched into the American fabric and presented to the population as if it is universally true.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot

a year ago

Considering what MOST Americans did during slavery, Indian removal, Reconstruction, the lynching epidemic, Jim Crow era & JD Vance's futon phase... How long before MOST people recognize that America is in its fascist era? dlvr.it/TLQ5CG

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

a year ago

@RichEllefritz Pseudoscience

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

a year ago

The creation of racial categories should be viewed as a human rights violation. Because they standardized and normalized subjugation.

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Adia H Wingfield @AdiaHWingfield

a year ago

Millennials say they want to work at companies that value diversity. But what kind of diversity matters most? Read on for answers in my latest column for Forbes.com. @forbes forbes.com/sites/adiaharv…

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Wendy D. Manning @wmannin

a year ago

Why U.S. policies like baby bonds and child tax credits can’t convince Americans to have kids cnb.cx/44ZTmSH

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Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts

a year ago

🚨new publication alert🚨 Super proud of @DeonteSoc on his first publication. This paper is an adapted version of his Masters thesis. Great work!

Deonté @DeonteSoc

a year ago

My first publication, co-authored with @doc_thoughts is out in Journal of Family issues! We examine poverty and religious attendance trajectories for Black mothers over time and what associations these trajectories have with Black mothers’ relationships with their children.