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Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

June 2, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Analyzing the common experience of racism in everyday life, Patricia Hill Collins does not attack the issue from a purely academic stance, but instead uses her daily life experiences to inform her critique. In "The Social Construction of Black ...

Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

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Are Professors Safe When Students Carry Guns?

June 2, 2016 • by Simone Gubler

In light of the tragic shooting this week of UCLA professor William S. Klug, apparently by a student over grades, Public Seminar is reprinting this essay by Simone Gubler. Last year, the Texas legislature voted to allow students to carry concealed handguns onto public campuses. Gubler discusses the impact of ...

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Resistance and Resurgence of the Métis

The red that dies the maple leaf

June 1, 2016 • by Wayne Wapeemukwa

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. On April 14, 2016, Grandma emailed me; the subject read: “Status.” That day, in Daniels vs. Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada legally granted Indian status to all non-status Indians and Métis. Grandma is not Métis, but I am. ...
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Recognizing One’s Oppression: On Collins’ Emerging Process

May 26, 2016 • by Aaron Neber

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. The black American woman resides in a conceptual space that exhibits a profound and complex network of interwoven modes of oppression. Throughout “Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images” from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, ...
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I Want You To Know You Are Powerful: Commencement Address to Eugene Lang College

A Commencement Address to the Graduates of Eugene Lang College

May 25, 2016 • by Deva Woodly

It is an incredible honor to be here with you today and to be entrusted with the task of speaking to you in this moment. You are here with your friends and family to celebrate what is, so far, the culmination of the journey you have undertaken to educate yourselves ...
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Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade

The Most Neglected Person in America is the Black Woman

May 25, 2016 • by Liam Mugavin

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. “As overly aggressive, unfeminine women, Black matriarchs allegedly emasculated their lovers and husbands. These men, understandably, either deserted their partners or refused to marry the mothers of their children. From the dominant group’s perspective, the matriarch represented a failed ...
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NSSR Graduation Speech 2016

May 24, 2016 • by William Milberg

These remarks were given at The New School for Social Research's graduation ceremony on May 19th 2016. Good evening, and welcome to the commencement ceremony of the New School for Social Research. I am Will Milberg, Dean of the New School for Social Research, and I am honored to represent this ...
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Lessons from Black Feminism on Textual Identity

May 23, 2016 • by Jordan Huston

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought offers an enticing tool for investigating identity formation. This text is grounded in the experience of black femininity. It is from this position, specified as the antithesis to the hegemonic matrix of whiteness, ...
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On Unity and Feminist Struggle: A Response to Judith Butler

May 18, 2016 • by Dora Suarez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It has now been more than twenty years since Judith Butler wrote the first edition of Gender Trouble, and the observations that she highlighted in its first chapter still resonate with us today, even as we ponder their significance ...
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A Radical New Approach to the Field of Economics

May 16, 2016 • by Ebba Boye

Anwar Shaikh has been teaching economics at The New School for 42 years. One of the world’s leading heterodox economists, he argues that the neoclassical models taught at most universities are bad tools for analyzing capitalism. He hopes that his recent book, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crisis, can be ...
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The Dangers of White Feminism

May 13, 2016 • by Kyle O'Dowd

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Feminism suffers in its theoretical framework when it excludes other axes of oppression, and reproduces forms of domination. As Patricia Collins argues, historically, Black women have been excluded from the concerns of both feminists and Black progressive movements.[1] Here ...
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On Nancy Fraser’s Two Dimensional Conception of Politics

May 12, 2016 • by James Wheeler

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Nancy Fraser’s insistence that we must not collapse two distinct modes of justice, recognition and redistribution, is well motivated. As she points out, an exclusive focus on the latter leads to a form of economic reductionism, an outlook according ...
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