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Pamela Oliver

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Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · Nov 11

About me. My current research is about US Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s, filling in the middle between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter. I have also done a lot of quantitative analysis of & advocacy around racial disparities in imprisonment.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 9h

As lack of answers indicates, mostly you cannot do this. Schools want their own faculty to certify training. There are sometimes informal arrangements when a faculty member provides official mentoring with informal mentoring from someone else who is well qualified whom they know and trust.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 17h

seconding for sociology.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 17h

I would speculate also down river.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations! Well deserved.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 2d

Are they experts about Black newspapers who feel unappreciated? Or people who are taking mainstream news as a given objective source that needs no analysis? Or something else I'm not thinking of? 2/2

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 2d

#AcademicSky #commsky #BlackSky Sincere Q'n. Where are reviewers coming from if they question the representativeness of a sample of 37 Black newspapers but not a sample of 3 mainstream newswires in the same paper? & complain about failure to analyze diversity of the former but not the latter? 1/2

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 5d

I am more sympathetic to email for PDF as in some cases publisher will not allow public posting of PDF but privately mailing a copy isn't a violation. (I have a forthcoming piece that I can't post but wish I could because I want people to read it.)

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 5d

FWIW I'm nowhere near as famous as TMC and also White, but back when I was often in regional news for work I was doing, I would get phone calls from people telling me I "had" to do some labor-intensive work for them in the same vein and they'd get angry when I said no. People can be jerks IRL.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 5d

And what field. Often answer is as simple no. Work around depend on relationships.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 5d

Answer depends on where you and students are.

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Wondering @ninaeliasoph.bsky.social · 7d

How is this legal? Invading people's homes while they're sleeping & forcing them outdoors, naked? Kids, too? abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

#IceGestapo #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

I do remember that thread . . .

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

I agree so much. At the end of the day, a vote is a discrete choice that involves making a summary judgment, and I was thinking to myself that assessment of a person's character and trustworthiness is based on all that they do, but all of us are a mixture of good and bad actions.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

I remember that video!

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

You've seen the research on shot spotter, I'm sure. They "calibrate" their accuracy by declaring that things were really shots when the police tell them to treat something as a shot.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

In my view an important discipline always to view people as mixtures of good and bad. If we attach good/bad to actions, then there is no inconsistency in thinking that the same person has done both. Sorry, I guess I'm in a pontificating mood today. Anyway, agree with your post on both points.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

Good luck. I do hope it works out.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

Also, having written this philosophic response let me say that I also share your screaming outrage about what is going on and your anger at people who seem to be oblivious to how bad it is.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

Also agreeing that some people are enemies. You have to stand in opposition to things and groups you think are just wrong. But politics (as you know) is also about trying to persuade the middle, the people who are neither enemies nor supporters.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

First, I do personally believe some people in power are evil, but in general my principle is that actions are evil and real people are complex mixtures of good and evil actions. But you cannot and should not try to find common ground with evil actions.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

Sadly, no. (That is, no, "we" seem not all to agree.) A lot of sociology research uses exactly that definition, as do a lot of polls. Even as there are other sociology traditions that dig into exactly the kinds of contradictions & complications raised in the thread. Which I think you already know.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 7d

Attacking and vandalizing an entire apartment building to get at some of the occupants and terrorizing 150 people of whom 37 were deemed worthy of detention certainly has significant historical precedents in the US, even as it has been (to my knowledge) not the norm in recent decades.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 9d

Oh dear. Some people don't have enough real work to do, I guess.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 10d

The other day I was helping my church's admin, first about how you could print multiple pages of the same doc to a PDF, and then dealing with him only knowing how to save to desktop and otherwise having no idea where a file would be.