by David Yamane | Aug 5, 2021 | Craig Douglas, police, race, Sociology of Guns Seminar, use of force
Questions and controversies around police use of force are not new, but have been animated by a spate of high profile cases in recent years resulting in the death of black Americans, including Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Alton Sterling,...
by David Yamane | Aug 1, 2021 | African Americans, gun ownership, race, Sociology of Guns Seminar
Modules 5, 6, and 7 of Sociology of Guns focus on three of the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of sociology: race, gender, and sexuality (we touch some on social class, too). There is no shortage of writing about how gun owners are racist, but my interest in this...
by David Yamane | Jul 29, 2021 | African Americans, Gun Culture, gun ownership, race, Wake Forest University
I was recently querying Academic Twitter about peer-reviewed social scientific publications on non-deviant African American gun owners to assign in the module on race in my Sociology of Guns seminar (more on that module forthcoming). I was disheartened but not...
by David Yamane | Jul 31, 2020 | Books, COVID19, gender, Gun Culture, Personal Protection, race, review, settler colonialism, sexuality
I have been very fortunate that my job has not been adversely affected in a major way by the COVID19 pandemic this year. Which is not to say that it has been completely unaffected. The already inadequate amount of funding I receive from Wake Forest to conduct my...
by David Yamane | Feb 17, 2020 | militia, race
Thus one can see in the Negro church to-day, reproduced in microcosm, all the great world from which the Negro is cut off by color-prejudice and social condition. In the great city churches the same tendency is noticeable and in many respects emphasized. A great...
