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The All Too Human Behavioral Geneticists

A review of Aaron Panofsky’s Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

March 14, 2019 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a social theorist of our generation, possessed of rich data and much sociological insight, must be in want of Bourdieu. In what follows, I will try to explicate why I think the ironic meaning of this statement is as true as its literal ...

The All Too Human Behavioral Geneticists

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Can Behavior Genetics Free Itself From Racial Supremacy?

An excerpt from “Misbehaving Science”

March 13, 2019 • by Aaron Panofsky

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its ...

Can Behavior Genetics Free Itself From Racial Supremacy?

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What To Do About Racial Supremacy in Behavior Genetics?

An interview with Aaron Panofsky

March 12, 2019 • by Aaron Panofsky and Josh Maserow

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its ...

What To Do About Racial Supremacy in Behavior Genetics?

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Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Identity in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

March 7, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide

This essay was originally published on March 7 2019. Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where ...

Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

An Interview with Daniel Gaztambide

March 6, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide and Josh Maserow

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to ...

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

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DNC Winter Meeting

Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16

March 6, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Members of the Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16. The DNC has 447 members, including the Chairs and Vice Chairs of the 50 states plus 7 other entities. Most DNC members are elected from their states based on population. Members must be evenly divided ...

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A Homage to the Victims of Germany’s Neo-Nazis

Author Esther Dischereit laments the deaths of Turkish immigrants murdered by a German terrorist cell

March 3, 2019 • by Emilia Otte

Between 2000 and 2007, a Neo-Nazi terrorist cell murdered ten people across Germany. Even though eight of the victims were Turkish immigrants, the state didn’t initially consider the deaths to be racially motivated. It wasn’t until 2011, when two of the members staged a failed bank robbery, that the police forces connected the ...

A Homage to the Victims of Germany’s Neo-Nazis

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Banned for Life – from Mississippi

Review of Brenda Travis, written with John Obee

February 28, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

At age 17 Brenda Travis was banned from the state of Mississippi, or so she was told. Forced to leave family and friends behind because she got involved in the civil rights movement she spent most of her life someplace else, but always felt like an exile. Brenda was just 16 ...

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The Potential of the Queer

On José Esteban Muñoz

February 22, 2019 • by McKenzie Wark

“I was a spy in the house of gender normativity.” - José Esteban Muñoz I too have been a spy in the house of gender normativity. This is what I saw: Work, eat, breed. That, in effect, is how production and consumption are supposed to operate. You have to do work in ...

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Can Screened Schools Be Part Of A Diverse School System?

Why racial and income integration in the public schools matters

February 17, 2019 • by Clara Hemphill and Nicole Mader

The Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group this week released a report making a compelling case for why racial and income integration in the public schools matters. Now the challenge is coming up with realistic plans to make it happen -- and at the Center for New York City Affairs we ...

Can Screened Schools Be Part Of A Diverse School System?

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Blackface, Venezuela, and Conversation Hearts

Past Present Episode 166

February 12, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the history of blackface, political upheaval in Venezuela, and the demise of Valentine’s Day conversation hearts. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Two top Virginia Democrats have admitted to wearing blackface. Natalia pointed to a recent Gucci turtleneck that many have ...

Blackface, Venezuela, and Conversation Hearts

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Reconsidering the History of Race through Peyote

How categories of belonging are made in Mexico

January 31, 2019 • by Alexander S. Dawson

Loyalties begin with a sense of belonging, a sense of who is on the inside and who is on the outside. I suppose that historians almost invariably interrogate notions of loyalty as we imagine our historical subjects; how they experienced their connections and obligations, and how this in turned shaped ...