Reflections on Logic of Inquiry

Sarah Bostic

In these podcasts, I critically reflect on articles read in my Logic of Inquiry class at the University of Cincinnati.

Episodes

  1. 01/27/2021

    United Struggle - Tribute to MLK and Revolutionaries Around the World

    On Martin Luther King day, 2021, I released this song. In this song I combine beats, melodies, chants, and calls to action from revolutionaries around the world, past and present. Let us never give up fighting for a better and more just tomorrow! Today, let us celebrate the bold and continued United Struggle against intersecting systems of oppression rooted in racism, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism! From the Civil Rights Era of the 60s, to the Black Lives Matter Movement of today, from the struggles against police brutality and systemic racism faced by people of color here the US to the struggles against Western Imperialism in Yemen and the Philippines. From the calls to action given by the likes of Malcolm X, Angela Davis, and Martin Luther King, to the chants of the Philippine National Democratic Movement, “makibaka! wag matakot!” (“Dare to struggle! Do not be afraid!”) Let us continue to fight! In his passionate 1968 speech, “We Shall Overcome,” just 4 days before his assassination, MLK says “We shall overcome. Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome. And with this faith we will go out and adjourn the counsels of despair and bring new light into the dark chambers of pessimism and we will be able to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. And this will be a great America! We will be the participants in making it so.” He says “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let us be the “participants in making it so!”

    United Struggle - Tribute to MLK and Revolutionaries Around the World

  2. 10/09/2020

    Critiquing White, Cis, Straight, Masculine, Colonialist Methods: Queer Methods

    In this episode, I discuss 2 chapters from the 2018 book Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology, edited by D’Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, and Kristen Schilt. Chapter 10, “Challenges, Triumphs, and Praxis: Collecting Qualitative Data on Less Visible and Marginalized Populations,” by Mignon Moore, and Chapter 11, “How Many (Queer) Cases Do I need? Thinking Through Research Design,” by D’Lane Compton

    Critiquing White, Cis, Straight, Masculine, Colonialist Methods: Queer Methods

  3. 10/04/2020 ·  Bonus

    Musical Interpretation of Anzaldúa's 7 Stages of Conocimiento

    In 2018, I took a seminar with Dr. Kelli Zaytoun on the works of Gloria Anzaldúa. For a project, I took the creative route and created a musical interpretation of Anzaldúa's 7 Stages of Conocimiento  outlined in her final book Light in the Dark. The freedom, chaos, and constraints of auditory representation are all represented in this piece. For a quick reference on the 7 Stages, please refer to this link: https://borderlandslafrontera.tumblr.com/ Album artwork used for this episode was a visual representation of the 7 Stages drawn by Gloria Anzaldúa herself.

    Musical Interpretation of Anzaldúa's 7 Stages of Conocimiento

  4. 10/02/2020

    Critiquing White, Cis, Straight, Masculine, Colonialist Methods: “Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race” by Tukufu Zuberi

    In this episode, I discuss “Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race” by Tukufu Zuberi, from the 2008 book White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.

    Critiquing White, Cis, Straight, Masculine, Colonialist Methods: “Deracializing Social Statistics: Problems in the Quantification of Race” by Tukufu Zuberi

  5. 09/25/2020

    Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Discussing Hammersley's "Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide"

    In this episode I discuss qualitative and quantitative methods by referring to Martyn Hammersley's chapter "Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide" from his 1992 book, What’s Wrong With Ethnography? Methodological Explorations.

    Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Discussing Hammersley's "Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide"

  6. 09/16/2020

    Is Sociology a Science? Crash Course on Linda Alcoff's "Justifying Feminist Social Science"

    In this podcast, I break down the main points of Linda Alcoff's 1987 Hypatia article, "Justifying Feminist Social Science"

    Is Sociology a Science? Crash Course on Linda Alcoff's "Justifying Feminist Social Science"

  7. 09/05/2020

    Discussing “Ethnographic Lessons: Researching Incest in Mexican Families” by Gloria González-López

    This podcast is a discussion of “Ethnographic Lessons: Researching Incest in Mexican Families” by Gloria González-López, for Week 4 of Logic of Inquiry, Fall 2020.

    Discussing “Ethnographic Lessons: Researching Incest in Mexican Families” by Gloria González-López
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In these podcasts, I critically reflect on articles read in my Logic of Inquiry class at the University of Cincinnati.

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