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Here are some selected radio, print, and internet appearances dating back over the years.

August 1, 2018
NPR’s Code Switch considers the history of white trash.

February 7, 2018
A report on my Dartmouth College talk, “What’s Up with White People?”

July 17, 2017
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Alfred Lubrano’s take on the Return of Roseanne.

April 13, 2013
An informative blog post by singles expert Bella DePaulo, quoting from my co-authored article on the sociology of suicide.

November 6, 2012
A brief profile in the The Temple News by intrepid student reporter Nikki Plaksen.

April 13, 2012
Ashley Powers of the Los Angeles Times writes about suicide and suicide prevention in Las Vegas.

September 8, 2011
A Wall Street Journal blog entry by Christopher Shea on my research with Temple colleagues Joshua Klugman and Gretchen Condran about death classification and medico-legal systems in the US.

May 2, 2011
A podcast interview with Stephen Dubner of Freaknomics fame. Covers some of my work on suicide in Las Vegas.

January 1, 2009
The End of White America? Hua Hsu explores the question in The Atlantic Monthly.

December 10, 2008
An interview with science reporter Michelle Trudeau of NPR’s All Things Considered.

June 10, 2008
An opinion piece by noted Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez that draws on an interview and my book Not Quite White.

>>October 24, 2004
“A trailer park is no place for trash talk.” Reporter Cristina Rouvalis investigates the stigma surrounding “trailer trash.”

>>February 18, 1999
“Like Whites on Race.” I include this one because of the headline. Who writes these things? Jeff Howe‘s early take on whiteness studies in the Sonoma County Independent.

>>November 30, 1997
A New York Time Magazine article by Margaret Talbot profiling the rise of whiteness studies.

>>July 3, 1997
Salon’s Tim Duggan profiles scholarship in whiteness studies and the social & cultural conditions that have given rise to it.