In Boston this week, visiting with some of the folks who created Project Implicit, an online quiz that gets at some of the cognitive aspects of all sorts of prejudice.
This blog is a place for thinking about white supremacy, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia ("hate") online. It's also a place for me to try out ideas about how to challenge, combat and struggle against these groups, and these expressions, on the internet.
Jessie Daniels has an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is Associate Professor at Hunter College in Urban Public Health. Daniels is the author of two books White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), both dealing with race and various forms of media. Currently, she is at work on a number of research projects about digital media, social inequality and health, including: 1) a study of feminist bloggers, and 2) an investigation of how LGBTQ homeless youth use mobile digital devices to survive on the streets.