Voice of Consciousness

There was a time I thought this paper would never be published. As the rejections piled on, I grew more emotionally detached from the paper. I also grew more frustrated: Where would this paper find a home? At least six anonymous peer reviewers said that this paper should not be published. I am guessing six, which reflects one from every journal to which I sent the paper, including the journal that finally accepted the paper. In due time, however, after seven years, five journal rejections, and countless revisions, a portion of my M.A. thesis -- "Race and Trust: The Case of Medicine" -- is finally published in Social Science Research  (SSR). The journal released the online first version of the article  --  Disaggregating Ethnoracial Disparities in Physician Trust  -- on Monday, July 13, 2015. I am unsure of when the printed article is set for publication. Aside from a few Facebook updates, I've been fairly quiet about this final leg of the peer-revi...

A response to how sociologists "deal" with race launched a heated exchange on Scatterplot at the end of February regarding attributions of racism. I was disappointed at the defensiveness present in the Scatterplot response to the “trauma” post and at the dismissiveness present in their response to the NY Post picture overall (not to say that all bloggers were defensive or dismissive, respectively, at one or all issues presented). In response to a healthy discussion already in place at Scatterplot , Skinny Malinky 's original "trauma" post states: I mean to pause and remember the force of the accumulated and collective traumas of racism, and to think about what sort of failure it is for sociology to refuse a consideration of that force, and to what new traumas that failure contributes. As a POC who grew up in the Deep South ( not to say this identity is definitively linked to the subsequent clause, but to provide sociological context to me saying that: Upon se...