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Latina/o Entrepreneurship Is Not The Solution To Poverty

Policymakers Must Invest in Education, Affordable and Decent Housing, and Living Wages

January 27, 2017 • by Pedro Regalado

For more than 30 years now, liberals and conservatives alike have positioned Latino/a entrepreneurs as the cutting edge of community empowerment and economic mobility. Yet, history shows that the growth of the Latina/o business class has had limited impact on the broader Latina/o community’s socioeconomic status nationwide. Despite the success ...

Education

The Meaning of Michelle

First Black First Lady as Outsider Within and Agent of Change

January 19, 2017 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. There are many aspects of the United States, of the political culture and system that I find interesting (to use a word that is telling without saying anything much). One of them is the office of the First Lady. There is ...

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A Brief History into Jeff Session’s Past U.S. Attorney Experience in Alabama

An Open Letter to Representative Jerrold Nadler

January 18, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

The Hon. Jerrold Nadler 2109 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 Dear Jerry: Even though confirmation of Jeff Sessions to be the Attorney General is not a House function, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I know you are concerned with who heads the DoJ. Therefore I want to give you a little ...

Education

Simianization in the Film “Sing”

Glaring caricature and stereotype provides teachable moment about racial bias

January 9, 2017 • by Jill Corson Lake

The animated film “Sing,” which opened on December 21, features a lazy, tone-deaf, and hurtful character choice by writer and director Garth Jennings. Whether conscious or unconscious, Jennings’ script perpetuates systemic racism and the history of simianization and oppression of black people by depicting them as gorillas, monkeys, and apes. “Sing” ...

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White Supremacy, Fear and the Crises of Legitimation

Reflections on the mistrial in the murder case of Walter Scott and the election of Donald Trump

January 1, 2017 • by Melvin L. Rogers

We are, however, likely to miss the importance of this decision if we do not connect it to another jarring day: November 9th. Many of us woke up (some of us never slept) to the announcement that Donald J. Trump would be the 45th president of the United States. Given ...

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Summer of Our American Discontent

New Hearts and Racial Divides

December 30, 2016 • by Louis Colombo

On July 12, 2016, in the midst of another American summer wracked by racial unrest, police brutality, protest, and violence, President Obama addressed the nation from Dallas, Texas, during a memorial service for five police officers slain in the line of duty and urged Americans to “reject despair” and to ...

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I think… I don’t think… I really think…

The curious life of gender in the election of Donald J.Trump

December 26, 2016 • by Kate Foley

On October 24, 2016, Carol Gilligan hosted a panel discussion at The New School titled “Election Game Changer: Is Gender the Explosive issue?” With election day fast-approaching, Gilligan and her fellow panelists, Wendy Puriefoy, Janet Reitman, Esther Franke, and Ali Shames-Dawson, engaged in a lively exploration of the political landscape ...

Literature

A Pure Solar World

Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist

December 21, 2016 • by Vince Carducci

One of my favorite moments of personal cognitive dissonance goes back to my time at Michigan State in the mid-1970s when at brunch at IHOP one Sunday morning I looked over to see John Gilmore, June Tyson, and Marshall Allen seated a couple of tables over from me. They were ...

Multi Media

Taiwan, the Oakland Fire, and Black Santa

Past Present: Episode 63

December 16, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the future of the One-China policy, the tragedy of the Oakland fire, and the Mall of America's first black Santa.

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Taiwan, the Oakland Fire, and Black Santa

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Performing the Brown Man Post 11/8

The Looks of Strangers and the Gaze of Phantoms

December 15, 2016 • by T. A. S.

This piece is part of the OOPS Series, "Social Interaction." I noticed him straight away. It was not the way he walked, slouched, each step an exercise in ascending and descending; like his legs were made out of the springs that vacillate bobble heads. It was not the casual style in ...

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On Not Giving Up

In the Wake of Donald Trump’s Victory

November 30, 2016 • by Patchen Markell

During the weeks leading up to the election, I must have seen Tammy Duckworth’s TV ads hundreds of times. One of her punchlines, a line that was supposed to sum up her generous democratic egalitarianism and contrast it with the punitive austerity of her opponent, was this: “If you don’t ...

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The Revolt of the Rust Belt

A closer analysis of Trump’s victory

November 15, 2016 • by Michael McQuarrie

The election is over and a potentially disastrous candidate has won. The damage to civil tolerance and multiculturalism is likely to be profound. A lot of people’s lives will change. Naturally, people are asking the question: who could have voted Trump into office? Well, clearly it’s white people. This isn’t ...