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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, ...

Recognizing One’s Oppression: On Collins’ Emerging Process

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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 ...

I Want You To Know You Are Powerful: Commencement Address to Eugene Lang College

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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 ...

Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade

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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, ...

Lessons from Black Feminism on Textual Identity

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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 ...

On Unity and Feminist Struggle: A Response to Judith Butler

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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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Fail Better: Reflections on a Good Life

May 3, 2016 • by Claire Potter

On April 29 2016, I attended my high school class reunion, where I was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alumnae Association of The Baldwin School, in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania. I was asked to give a short address to the Upper School, and this is what I ...
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The Illegal Detainment of Academics for Peace in Turkey

April 10, 2016 • by Academics For Peace and Democracy

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN – ULUSLARARASI KAMPANYA January 11, 2016: 1124 academics signed a public statement for Peace in Turkey titled, “We Will Not Be a Party to this Crime,” criticizing the Turkish Government’s gross human rights violations in the Kurdish region and calling for restoration of the peace process through political negotiations. ...
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Are Female Characters Impossible?

March 16, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. She is the Giddiness of Loss, the Fascination of Damnation, of Death Euripides’ Alcestis offers a unique exemplification of the themes and arguments in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Admetus’ elderly parents fail to step up and die for their son, ...
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