Social Stratification and Intersectionality

Social Stratification Systems

• Caste in the United States - South Asian American Survey (Equality Labs)
• When Caste Discrimination Comes To The United States (National Public Radio)
• Just like India, America has its own caste system (Quartz)
• Does America Have a Caste System? (City Lab)
• What Happens When Poor Kids Are Taught Society Is Fair (The Atlantic)
• The Way People Are Ranked and Ordered in Society (ThoughtCo) 

Explanations

• The Psychology Behind Inequality (Psychology Today)

Measuring Social Inequality

• Is Being a ‘Minority’ Really Just a Matter of Numbers? (The New York Times Magazine)

• How Rich Are the Rich, If Only You Knew (The Conversation)
• A new study says much of the rise in inequality is an illusion. Should you believe it? (Vox)
• A Nobel Prize-winning economist thinks we’re asking all the wrong questions about inequality (Quartz)
• Income, Poverty and Health Insurance and Supplemental Poverty Measure 2016 (U.S. Census Report)
• The United States – An Underdeveloped Country? (Revise Sociology)

Identities

• Female facial hair: if so many women have it, why are we so deeply ashamed? (The Guardian)

Life Chances

• The financial impact of winning (and losing) the birth lottery (CNN)
• The racial wealth divide is worse than people think—and it’s growing (Quartz)
• There Are More Girls Living in Poverty Today Than in 2007 (Motto Time)

Prejudice & Discrimination

• Gender Equity Is Useless Without Racial Equity (Forbes)
  

• New studies show discrimination widely reported by women, people of color and LGBTQ adults (The Conversation)

• Age Discrimination And Women In The Workplace. Here's How to Avoid Getting Pushed Out (Forbes)
• Denial of service to same-sex and interracial couples: Evidence from a national survey experiment (Science Advances)
• For LGBTQ People Of Color, Discrimination Compounds (NPR)
• White Women Are Less Likely to Protect Black Women From Sexual Assault, Study Finds (Teen Vogue)
• Black Women Are Leaning In And Getting Nowhere (Huffington Post)

Privilege

• What happened when I tried to teach Harvard undergrads about inequality and poverty (Quartz)
• Being Pretty Is A Privilege, But We Refuse to Acknowledge It (Allure)
• Yes, You Can Measure White Privilege (The Root)

Location

• America’s Worsening Geographic Inequality (CityLab)
• There's a hidden poverty lurking in American suburbs (Business Insider)
• The Geography of Desperation (CityLab)
• America’s Economic Distress Belt (City Lab)

Intersectionality

• What is intersectionality? All of who I am (The Conversation)

Public Policy

• The Inequality Industry (The Nation)

• Half-century of US civil rights gains have stalled or reversed, report finds (The Guardian)
• Why Some Women Don't Actually Have Privacy Rights (City Lab)
• The resegregation of America (NBC News)
• Inequality is getting worse, but fewer people than ever are aware of it (Salon)
• Addressing Poverty among the Disability Community: One Policy at a Time (The Washington Post)
• 115th Congress will be most racially diverse in history (The Hill)