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Wayne Mellinger: What Santa Barbara’s Chumash Past Can Teach Us About Patriarchy (opens the original)
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In a recent tribute to the late Gloria Steinem, former state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, captured something true about Steinem’s extraordinary gift: her ability to help millions of women recognize inequality not as a private failing but as a system that could be named, challenged and changed. But one phrase caught my sociologist’s ear. Jackson described patriarchy as a system that “has controlled women’s lives since the beginning of time.” I understand the rhetorical point. Women’
Wayne Mellinger: Chumash, Settler Colonialism and the Work of Reconciliation (opens the original)
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For generations, Californians learned a comforting story about this place: Spanish explorers, Franciscan missionaries, ranchos and American settlers, each building upon what came before. Some of us built missions from sugar cubes and learned that kindly padres brought Christianity and civilization to grateful Native people. There is a more truthful way to tell this history: settler colonialism. Settler colonialism names a historical process in which newcomers establish permanent societies on Ind
Wayne Mellinger: I Am Currently Serving My Second Sentence (opens the original)
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There was no trial, no hearing, no opportunity to confront my accuser. No human being decided I was guilty — as far as I can tell, nobody at Apple thinks I did anything wrong. Nevertheless, for the second time in roughly two weeks, I have been banished from my Apple account while an invisible clock decides when I may again be trusted with my own electronic life. Some found its way into the keyboard of my MacBook Pro. I took the computer to Apple for repair — perfectly reasonable. I was without i
Wayne Mellinger: Sociology, Activism and the Lessons I Learned in Santa Barbara (opens the original)
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Walk down Santa Barbara’s State Street and you can encounter a sociological question in less time than it takes to cross an intersection. Who belongs in public space? Who gets heard? Who gets housed? Who gets moved along? Who gets to decide what Santa Barbara should become? Those are not merely political questions. They are sociological questions. And when sociology helps us see serious injustice, I believe we have an obligation to do more than describe it. That is why I was struck by a recent N
Wayne Mellinger: Learning to Dance with Anna Galindo (opens the original)
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About 10 years ago, I met Anna Galindo at the Fellowship Club of Santa Barbara, a day center for people living with mental health challenges. I did not know that she had been a celebrated flamenco dancer, teacher, costume maker and force within Old Spanish Days. I knew only the woman before me: older, poor, sometimes struggling, arriving on an old bicycle she had decorated herself, three bags crossed over her chest, sandals on her feet no matter the weather. She did not know much about me either
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