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I try to stick to writing, but anything goes as of late.
Ask me questions!
I try to stick to writing, but anything goes as of late.
~ Tuesday, May 8 ~
~ Monday, May 7 ~
Starlight studying. #soc421 #sociology #csuci (Taken with Instagram at John Spoor Broome Library)
~ Wednesday, March 14 ~
American Indians make up 34.1% of all rapes against women. American Indians make up less than 1% of the U.S. population.
What’s wrong here?
There is no denying how fucked up rape is, that the rate of rape is disgustingly high and still probably underreported, and that we must dismantle rape culture. And it is super fucked up that American Indian/Alaskan women experience rape/attempted rape at significantly higher rates than other women.
But! The above quoted interpretation of the linked data is incorrect and misleading. American Indians/Alaskan persons do make up less than 1% of the U.S. population. However, American Indian/Alaskan women do not “make up 34.1% of all rapes against women.”
34.1% is the percentage of American Indian/Alaskan women who are raped or experience attempted rape in their lifetime—only within the American Indian/Alaskan racial group, not all women in total!
Lifetime rate of rape /attempted rape for women by race:
- All women: 17.6%
- White women: 17.7%
- Black women: 18.8%
- Asian Pacific Islander women: 6.8%
- American Indian/Alaskan women: 34.1%
- Mixed race women: 24.4%
[Data from: National Institute of Justice & Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey. 1998.]
So, according to the data, 344 out of every 1000 American Indian/Alaskan women experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime.
The data do not read that 344 out of every 1000 women who experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime are American Indian/Alaskan women.
Do you see the difference?
To sum: What is shown on the linked page (and reproduced above) is the percentage of women in each racial group who are raped/experience attempted rape in their lifetime. There are no data on the linked page that break down the racial demographics of the total population of women who are raped/experience attempted rape.
Always be mindful of statistics!
More data analysis: American Indian/Alaskan women experience rape or attempted rape at almost twice the rate for all women and at five times the rate for Asian/Pacific Islander women.
Mixed race women also experience rape or attempted rape at a higher rate than White, Black, and Asian/Pacific Islander women (24.4% compared to 17.7%, 18.8%, and 6.8%, respectively) but at still a lower rate by far than American Indian/Alaskan women (34.1%).
(Some more thoughts: I do think the higher rate among American Indian/Alaskan women is related to the genocide/colonization/marginalization of American Indians/Alaskans at large. Also, I think the higher rate among mixed race women is related to racist discomfort of people mixing across racial lines; rape is a strong means of social control that might be being used to discourage interracial relationships.)
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~ Wednesday, February 1 ~
Since we just launched our YouTube playlist about research methods, it seemed to appropriate to post this infographic about the research process, too. Look for a new infographic every week this spring semester.
(Source: wwnorton.com)
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~ Tuesday, January 31 ~
“ Why is sociology absent in public debates … why do sociologists have so little confidence in their work that they talk about it only to each other, rather than to the world at large?
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— Wolfgang Streeck, in an essay on public sociology. Hat tip to The Sociological Imagination (in more ways than one).
~ Sunday, January 22 ~
This is Angry Eye, an approximately 50 minute video of an exercise on privilege, discrimination, and power.
Jane Elliott, the exercise leader, developed an exercise in response to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination where kids in her class (or people in her exercise groups now) were divided into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups. She then simulated the experience of the discrimination and racism that people of color deal with on a consistent basis by making the blue-eyed people inferior and the brown-eyed people superior. It’s amazing to see some of the strongly averse reactions white people in the exercise have to what Elliott is saying: that they have privilege, that they are benefited de facto in society, and that they can choose to be ignorant and oblivious.
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~ Monday, December 5 ~
A complete #lunch with a panino, chips, iced tea, and #Weber. #sociology (Taken with Instagram at Islands Cafe)
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~ Sunday, November 13 ~
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