Delighted that my book, THE CULTURE TRAP, has been published by @OxUniPress! This ethnography centers and celebrates Black youth in London and NYC schools, and shows that the use of culture to explain Black students' success or failure in schools is not only tricky; it is a trap!

This is such good reporting from the @harvardcrimeson: There are about 27,000 high schools in the U.S. Over the past 15 years, 1 in 11 students at Harvard have come from just 21 high schools. So 9.1% of Harvard students come from 0.07% of US schools. @nytdavidbrooks

Dear friends, help me celebrate the first publication of my mentee @ZoraHaque in @ERSjournal! She is now @hgse, and is already a shining star. So excited to see all Zora will do for the field of race and education, and for families and young people! Way to go, Zora! Wooohoo!!!🥳

scholar A gets rejected from top journal. A noticed scholar B was recently published in same journal. A is 😡 and rationalizes racial resentment behind methodology. A wants to speak to the manager of sociology. A will insist this has nothing to do with “race.” A+B=C. Solve for C.

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we are highlighting the voices and insights of Black BERA members. 'What are the main challenges facing Black colleagues in educational research?'@ojukomiller @RachelCBoyle1 @ChrisCall6189 @bera_ree @DianeWa72762832 Watch full: https://t.co/phNrX3LbIM

Book Review Symposium📚 “[The Culture Trap] challenges the idea that ‘culture’ can account for differential outcomes in education, by uncovering the assumptions associated with race in [education systems].” Read @DrDaveOBrien’s review below. https://t.co/Inigb74pjT

Book Review Symposium📚 Stephen D Ashe asks ‘what can we learn from The Culture Trap in terms of how we go about doing ethnographic cultural sociology?” in his review below. https://t.co/FdjdSbr43z

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to former Dean Gary Henry for this honor, as well as to my @UDCEHD community and all my local school partners for their ongoing support & collaboration. Jessica Henderson wrote this marvelously, so thank u too! https://t.co/MV4p13BkWg

Must read piece from ⁦@haitiharlem⁩ ‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US | US farm workers | The Guardian

JD Vance blamed school shootings on Mexican immigrants bringing in guns and then changed the subject to gun violence in big urban cities (black folks). The one issue that is almost singularly about white men gets blamed on people of color.

This exchange should be studied for a long time. The interviewer read the book, not to gain new insight, but to get angry that it wasn't written from the perspective he preferred. He expected Coates to crumble under his onslaught. But Coates didn't. That's what makes it powerful.

#Identities 30th Anniversary Lecture Series! Register to attend our trio of Anniversary Lectures to mark Identities' 30 years: 📅 25 Sep - Prof Catherine Hall 📅 22 Oct - Prof Claire Alexander 📅 26 Nov - Dr Jean Beaman @UofGSPS @UofGSocSci https://t.co/UsJviZ8ZFA

I call this, "Phases of a Faculty Meeting"

@hebagowayed @PrincetonUPress A big congratulations to @DerronWallace, who won this year's SREM Distinguished Early Career Award. Dr. Wallace's book, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth @OxUniPress, was also a co-winner for The Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award.

Pre-tenure faculty often get the advice to keep a record of everything you do before tenure. But what does "everything" mean? Here's a list of tenure-relevant activities and a template to keep track of all of them. #TenureTrack #PreTenure #AssistantProfessor #AcademicTwitter

(paywalled) Just out in @CulSoc, my review of @DerronWallace superb "The Culture Trap" which I call "an outstanding example of comparative sociology"

Re-reading evals from the spring for the course I'm teaching again this fall. I asked students their favorite and least fave rdgs & many appeared in both categories. BUT one of the most common favorites appeared not at all in least fave - @DerronWallace 's Culture Trap.

Loved celebrating the career of @prudencelcarter. congrats on the lifetime achievement award in Race, Class, and Gender! Thank you to @DerronWallace for organizing the nomination! @prudencelcarter can’t wait to see where another lifetime of scholarship takes you!

What an amazing #ASA2024 it’s been! So grateful that #TheCultureTrap received 5 awards in Race & Ethnicity, Education, Children & Youth—including ABS’s Best Book Award and being named @SSSP’s C. W. Mills Award Finalist! Major thanks to wonderful mentors, colleagues, & friends!