This is mostly a reprint of a 2019 blog post originally posted on scatterplot about citing more broadly that was well-received. Librarians told me that they were circulating and discussing among themselves about how they might improve the advice they give. Recent discussions about AI-generated literature searches reminded me of
Read moreTheoretical paper on repression of racial and ethnic minorities
I recently published a chapter in the De Gruyter Handbook of Political Control edited by Jennifer Earl and Jessica Maves Baithwaite. This chapter pulls together some theoretical discussions about repression and social control that I wrote some time ago but never published. The abstract is: This chapter provides theoretical tools
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Black protests about workers and economic issues
One of the things that surprised our team as we read and coded Black newspaper articles about protests was the high frequency of protests by and about workers in Black newspapers. We also saw a lot of coverage of protests about cuts in public services in cities with high Black
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Black protests about policing in 1990s and 2000s: Time trends
There were many US Black protests about policing before the Black Lives Matter protests after 2014. Drawing on archives of 950 articles including 310 from three mainstream newswire services and 640 from 37 Black newspapers as sources of information, we identified about 1,059 Black-relevant protest events about policing in the
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