Wednesday 16:00-16:30
Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
03 May 2006
SAME SEX MARRIAGE Carol Smart, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University, talks about her research into the reaction of friends and family when gay and lesbian couples announce a civil partnership or commitment ceremony.
THE PRICE OF WHITENESS
What does it mean to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white?
Eric L. Goldstein, Assistant Professor of History & Jewish Studies, Emory University and author of The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity and Anthony Lerman, Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, discuss the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century and the extent to which this has been mirrored in Britain.
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Carol Smart, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University
"Your friends sort of jibed about you being married": Complexities of exclusion and inclusion for same-sex couples"
Carol Smart, Beccy Shipman and Jennifer Mason
The Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life
School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Eric L. Goldstein, Assistant Professor of History & Jewish Studies, Emory University
PubliThe Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691121052
