Armando Lara-Millan
@armandolaram
Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. Author of Redistributing the Poor.
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https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/armando-lara-millan 02-11-2009 16:50:14
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🧵My book is officially out! Published by University of California Press (is on Bluesky), it’s called Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards. Check it out: ucpress.edu/book/978052038… /1
Proud to co-author this article with @AaronFoote_ in City & Community on the “Origins of the #FlintWaterCrisis Uneven Development, Urban Political Ecology, and Racial Capitalism” UMass Sociology UMass Labor Center journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…
Listen to my discussion of "Refashioning Race" with Miranda Melcher New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social), addressing: What do you get from comparing the U.S. and Malaysia? What’s “Asian cosmetic surgery”? And how do cosmetic surgeons discuss race with patients? Check it out! newbooksnetwork.com/refashioning-r…
Register to join us Monday 3/18 at 12pm for a panel on @avb_soc's book, "Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness," with Lauren Rettagliata offering comments. w/ Berkeley Sociology, ISSI and CSLS at UC Berkeley. matrix.berkeley.edu/events/conserv…
New! Mass Incarceration Trends update from Ashley Nellis The Sentencing Project sentencingproject.org/reports/mass-i…
At the blog I wrote about a really, really good new article in AJS by Roshan Pandian. He explains the decline of between-country global inequality from 2000 onward. Link to blog and to the article in the next tweet:
