Robyn Autry

Associate Professor, Wesleyan University

Robyn Autry is a writer and sociologist at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. She is working on a book about artifice and Black beauty, and is the author of Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa (2017).

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Written by Robyn Autry

Black children and adults playing in the rain, holding umbrellas and bags on a street corner with row houses and traffic.

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Race and ethnicity

Sociology’s race problem

Urban ethnographers do more harm than good in speaking for Black communities. They see only suffering, not diversity or joy

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