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Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement

March 4, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Nancy Hiemstra: “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement” February 24th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the cause ...

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Patriarchy Alive and Well: CDC Releases New Guidelines for Alcohol & Pregnancy

February 15, 2016 • by Katie Gentile

Earlier this week the United States Center for Disease Control (the CDC) released yet more guidelines for women of “reproductive age”. These guidelines take what could be seen as a draconian, or perhaps more bluntly, a misogynous stance of recommending that all women of reproductive age who do not ...

Patriarchy Alive and Well: CDC Releases New Guidelines for Alcohol & Pregnancy

Education

Who Is A Nigger?

February 13, 2016 • by Orlando Hawkins

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. In 1986, civil rights hero and activist, Bayard Rustin, gave a speech called “The New Niggers Are Gays”. In this speech Rustin stated that the barometer of social change is no longer related to African-Americans since African-Americans have ...

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#BlackLivesMatter and #Fightfor15

Building movements for racial and economic justice

January 22, 2016 • by Stephanie Luce

It may be that in 20 or 30 years we will look back to 2015 as the year that things really began to change in the U.S. This was the year we saw the intersection of the movement for higher wages and Black Lives Matter really begin to ...

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Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century

Understanding the movement and what it represents

January 18, 2016 • by Deva Woodly

Where should we begin in accounting for the rise of the movement for black lives?

The tragedy of 21^st century America is that there are innumerable places one could begin. The grievances that have sparked the cry, “Black Lives Matter,” might be rooted in the killing of black ...

Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century

Feature

Of Honor and Despair in Dark Times

Hannah Arendt on Stefan Zweig

January 4, 2016 • by Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu

In 1943, with confirmation of the Nazis’ implementation of what the ossified bureaucratic language called Endlösung (the final solution) -- the extermination of all European Jews -- Hannah Arendt published an essay in the émigré journal Aufbau (printed in New York) on Stefan Zweig and the bygone world of yesterday, ...

Race

Solidarity with Muslim Women: A Personal Letter

December 12, 2015 • by Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Associate Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin, sent the following e-mail to her colleagues on December 3, 2015. It was subsequently circulated through her network, resulting in Nancy Fraser bringing it to our attention. We publish it in solidarity with Asifa Quraishi-Landes and "visibly Muslim Women." -JG Hi UW ...

Solidarity with Muslim Women: A Personal Letter

Race

Margo Jefferson’s Coming of Age in Negroland

December 8, 2015 • by Vince Carducci

One of my fondest memories from the New School for Social Research Liberal Studies MA program comes from a course titled “Representations of Race and Gender in American Culture.” It was the day, about halfway through the semester, when co-teachers Elizabeth Kendall (author of feminist studies of <a ...

Disability

The Disability Paradox

Further thoughts on inequality, disability, and the imaginal

October 14, 2015 • by Zachary Sunderman

Do you have a disability? Do you want to work? This seemingly innocent pairing of questions should immediately raise a red flag, for it is technically oxymoronic: in the United States, the disabled, by definition, are those who cannot work, at least in any significant sense. Granted, ...

Disability

Invisible Privilege, Unspoken Racism

From street transactions to the NYSED disability campaign

October 12, 2015 • by Chiara Bottici

I spent most of my summer on the Italian coast, in the little town where I was born, as I do almost every year. The difference, this time, was that I had not been back to my home country for a whole year. This gave me some sort of a ...

Race

The (de)Construction of the “Illegal” Immigrant

Latinos respond to Donald Trump

October 2, 2015 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Donald Trump’s derisive statements about Mexican immigrants have mobilized a large portion of the Latino community in the United States. Faced with the same old accusations that Mexican immigrants are criminals, drug-dealers, or rapists, businesses and public figures such as Univision, NBC, ESPN, NASCAR, Macy’s, chefs Jose Andres and Geoffrey ...

The (de)Construction of the “Illegal” Immigrant

Race

Who Bankrolled Jim Crow?

Global capital and American segregation

September 22, 2015 • by Paige Glotzer

Look no further than American suburbs to find some of the starkest legacies of Jim Crow. Segregated through redlining and disproportionately benefiting from state subsidies, American suburbs fixed the geography of white supremacy. But when we look at American suburbia, we must also look beyond America’s borders. It ...