Deadric T. Williams

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Causal modeling limits our theoretical and analytical imagination regarding racial inequality. Settler colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade caused racial inequality. Our job now is to understand the mechanisms maintaining racial inequality.

The study of racism is how disinformation becomes normalized via ideologies, beliefs, laws, and social practices. And that disinformation gets stitched into the American fabric and presented to the population as if it is universally true.

Considering what MOST Americans did during slavery, Indian removal, Reconstruction, the lynching epidemic, Jim Crow era & JD Vance's futon phase... How long before MOST people recognize that America is in its fascist era? dlvr.it/TLQ5CG

@RichEllefritz Pseudoscience

@doc_thoughts How so?

The creation of racial categories should be viewed as a human rights violation. Because they standardized and normalized subjugation.

Millennials say they want to work at companies that value diversity. But what kind of diversity matters most? Read on for answers in my latest column for Forbes.com. @forbes forbes.com/sites/adiaharv…

Why U.S. policies like baby bonds and child tax credits can’t convince Americans to have kids cnb.cx/44ZTmSH

🚨new publication alert🚨 Super proud of @DeonteSoc on his first publication. This paper is an adapted version of his Masters thesis. Great work!

I miss the old Twitter.

@NuclearWomprat @MattPolProf I don't think my view and this Tweet mention of "universalism" are capable.

@doc_thoughts You’ve been critical of universalism in the past. Do you have thoughts on @MattPolProf’s statement? Thanks!

It took me a while to realize this but the "Moving to Opportunity" project is rooted in racial essentialism. That's why I have a hard time grappling with those studies.

I may delete this later, but quick update: ✅The Engine of Racial Capitalism → UC Irvine Law Review (2026) ✅The Spirit of Oligarchy in American Agriculture → Columbia Law Review (2026) Grateful to those who helped along the way. Much work left to do. Connect to chat more.

@aasewell Thanks for this. I thought it was just me. They doing too murch! 😂

After 12 years with Evernote (switched when I went full-time Mac), I’m out. It broke the #1 rule of note-taking: K.I.S.S.—Keep It Simple, Stupid. Somewhere along the way, it lost focus. Spaces, Tasks, Reminders. Constant Updates. I just want to log a note. It’s not that deep.

Excited to share my new article in @SF_Journal ! Using a survey experiment with 995 families, I show how race shapes beliefs about school safety. White, Asian, and Latine families perceive Black schools as less safe—even when safety ratings are identical. #Education #Race 1/4

We need to talk about the intersections of Whiteness and paternalism in academia.

@Eagles This is "Howie" do it!

Jealousy is just confused admiration.

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution is a great book to add to your reading list

2/2 I was interested in the dichotomy between race specific policies and race neutral policies. I often thought that was a false dichotomy as there is no such thing as race neutral policies. I often think about this idea.

1/2 Confession: in graduate school, I almost switched from sociology to political science after I met THE Hanes Walton. We were both at the University of Michigan one summer.