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Zuleyka Zevallos
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Zuleyka Zevallos writes The Other Sociologist, a personal blog at othersociologist.com about politics and culture. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this sociology blog by Zuleyka Zevallos for critiques of studies on gender and race bias in hiring and pay, and for posts on how 'where are you from?' questions land. The comments only cite it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sociology for Social Justice by Zuleyka Zevallos
Most-linked posts?
- /2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-racial-microaggressions/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-01
- /2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-science/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-16
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, you know what, i've personally experienced that more than once, it's not politically correct to say, but i'm not american so... and it happened in Richmond so meh... I've also met enough people from different places in the world to understand it happens to everybody for different reasons. Hell there's racism in the world I bet a lot of people don't even realize is an issue. An old Iranian coworker and a chines…
Comment linking /2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-racial-microaggressions/
on “YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs”Submitted Nobody reads the footnotes … as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIronically, asking someone "where are you from?" is now considered a micro-aggression! https://othersociologist.com/2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-r...
Comment linking /2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-racial-microaggressions/
on “Bullshit Jobs and the Labourisation of Work”I believe Feynman understood that he was oversimplifying, and I believe he was able to do because his reason for reading the paper was not the same as the reason another sociologist might have. Thus a sentence like, "The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels", does, to a non-expert, mean "people read", but to another sociologist of a researcher in rela…
Comment linking /2013/11/20/sociology-of-community/
on “Transformer Attention is off by one”> as immigrants, we always get ‘where are you from originally’. That question in the US usually means either 1) your accent is noticeably not American, or 2) you or your ancestors didn't come to the US from Europe or via the African diaspora. Native Americans get asked that question. Fourth-generation Chinese-Americans get asked that question. Puerto Ricans are asked that question. But a white friend of mine, born i…
Comment linking /2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-racial-microaggressions/
on “Ongoing Death of Free Speech: ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book”As newmana mentions, there are issues with that study: http://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-s... And there are other studies I find more persuasive. E.g.: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/stu... In particular, I think the "switch the names" sort of study under realistic conditions makes it clear that bias is an issue. And…
Comment linking /2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-science/
on “#FFFFFF Diversity”That study has many flaws especially in self selection: http://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-s...
Comment linking /2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-science/
on “#FFFFFF Diversity”The Ceci and Williams study was deeply flawed. It doesn't actually match how people hire, and has other issues: https://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-... http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Myth-That-Academic-Scie... https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/michae... The study about French would-be teachers seems of very low relevance to me to software engineers.
Comment linking /2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-science/
on “At Google, Employee-Led Effort Finds Men Are Paid More Than Women”See https://othersociologist.com/otherness-resources/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_(philosophy) It appears the people in Ohio were using the black label as a tool to erect a population of “otherness” across the river. The race labels was just the most familiar tool in the toolbox at that time.
Comment linking /otherness-resources/
on “They look white but say they're black: a town in Ohio wrestles with race (2019)”
