Deadric T. Williams
@doc_thoughts
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Associate Professor of Sociology | Tweets == my own. Retweet != endorsement. https://t.co/e3kApXMZyw
Joined July 2010
***Updated Website*** https://t.co/5CQYbR3hUa
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Scholar. Sociologist. Speaker.
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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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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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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?
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For most Americans, fascism is a foreign idea.
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The creation of racial categories should be viewed as a human rights violation. Because they standardized and normalized subjugation.
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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 https://t.co/JpyjVcX8kP.
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Why U.S. policies like baby bonds and child tax credits can’t convince Americans to have kids
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The U.S. birthrate remains below replacement, raising concerns about Social Security and Medicare. Financial incentives are unlikely to boost fertility, experts say.
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🚨new publication alert🚨 Super proud of @DeonteSoc on his first publication. This paper is an adapted version of his Masters thesis. Great work!
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.
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It took me a while to realize this but the "Moving to Opportunity" project is rooted in racial essentialism. That's why I have a hard time grappling with those studies.
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I may delete this later, but quick update: ✅The Engine of Racial Capitalism → UC Irvine Law Review (2026) ✅The Spirit of Oligarchy in American Agriculture → Columbia Law Review (2026) Grateful to those who helped along the way. Much work left to do. Connect to chat more.
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White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy, so we need white people to have objective criteria for considering themselves good and decent. Our culture lies when it says Black & Brown folk need to prove they're good, but white people simply are... https://t.co/NCgwzDMpU1
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“Not only does whiteness empower folk to destroy entire communities; it empowers them to say to your face that the destruction doesn't have reverberating effects in the current moment.”
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Excited to share my new article in @SF_Journal ! Using a survey experiment with 995 families, I show how race shapes beliefs about school safety. White, Asian, and Latine families perceive Black schools as less safe—even when safety ratings are identical. #Education #Race 1/4
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We need to talk about the intersections of Whiteness and paternalism in academia.
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution is a great book to add to your reading list
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2/2 I was interested in the dichotomy between race specific policies and race neutral policies. I often thought that was a false dichotomy as there is no such thing as race neutral policies. I often think about this idea.
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1/2 Confession: in graduate school, I almost switched from sociology to political science after I met THE Hanes Walton. We were both at the University of Michigan one summer.
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My research is not about social categories; rather, my work focuses on the processes and mechanisms that make social category salient in the first place. There's a difference.
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#AcademicTwitter are there "go-to" articles on measuring race, measuring gender, and measuring sexuality?
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Stipends of $20,000 are available for predoctoral sociology graduate students through ASA’s Minority Fellowship Program. Apply by Jan 30. https://t.co/3Vz31nT7Ip.
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