oice may be a symbol of a increasingly fluid approach to self-identity. Race is a social construction, and this is a perfect example of that. says Charles Gallagher, Chair of the Sociology and Criminal Justice program at La Salle University. What bothers people is the way she went about it.
Date: Jun 12, 2015
Category: U.S.
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Police shootings in Ferguson raise stakes in city's efforts to clean house
Part of the process already has begun with the Justice Department report, which laid out facts that revealed a kind of racial oppression that has shocked parts of America that wanted to believe that the country had largely transcended race, says Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at La Salle Universit
Date: Mar 12, 2015
Category: U.S.
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Obama approval rating slumping even in bluest of the blue California
There have been a number of national and international events where the president has been portrayed as inattentive, ineffective, or overly cautious, says Charles Gallagher, chair of the sociology department at La Salle University in Philadelphia, who studies race and ethnicity.
Because people tend not to share power, there will be more Fergusons in America's future: isolated communities ignored by leaders and harassed by heavily armed police forces, says Charles Gallagher, a sociology professor at LaSalle University in Pennsylvania.
Date: Aug 23, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Despite Oscar notice, black actors still hit limits in film
"Black actors remain underrepresented in front and behind the camera," says Charles Gallagher, chairman of the sociology department at La Salle University in Philadelphia. "However, that is not how most of white America sees it. Flip through your stations and you will see advertisements where middle
The man himself was controversial, notes LaSalle University sociology professor Charles Gallagher. King -- bound up with issues of racial and economic inequality that spotlight America's worst sins -- is a "Rorschach test," Gallagher says, that people see in King what they want to see.
Date: Jan 15, 2012
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'Wreaths of Remembrance' placed at county veterans cemetery
Charles Gallagher, a member of the South Jersey Vietnam Veterans Association, said the event was a bit personal as there are eight association members who were laid to rest at the cemetery. For him, Its almost like going to church with the events holiday-themed yet somber feeling.
"We went from being a privileged group to all of a sudden becoming whites, the new victims,'' says Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at La Salle University in Pennsylvania who researches white racial attitudes and was baffled to find that whites see themselves as a minority.