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African American Studies

Danger and Desire: The Black Sporting Body

—Stanley I. Thangaraj
As athletes around the country take a knee to organize for justice and life, Stanley I. Thangaraj reflects on how race structures sports and everyday life in the United States.
Religion

A Climate Change Denier’s Perfect Storm

— Antony Alumkal
In the past few months, we have witnessed the devastation caused by climate change induced severe weather. Anthony Alumkal critiques the campaign of anti-environmentalism spearheaded by E. Calvin Beisner and his organization, the Cornwall Alliance, for it is one that the planet cannot afford.
Environmental Studies

Hurricane Harvey and a Market City’s response to disaster

—Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley
Michael Emerson and Kevin Smiley reflect on Houston’s response to Hurricane Harvey and give a careful analysis of how Houston’s resilience to such a disaster was affected by it being a “Market City”.
Anthropology

Dove, How Do You Get So Clean and White? A Racist Trope Reemerges

—Carl Zimring
In light of the recent controversy over Dove’s body wash ad, Carl Zimring revisits the history of racist attitudes towards hygiene in order to better understand the roots of present-day inequalities
History

Marching for Cristoforo

—Paul Moses
Taking into account family ties to another Cristoforo from Italy, Paul Moses explains why Italian immigrants embraced Columbus, and why he’s marching in this year’s parade.

Dove, How Do You Get So Clean and White? A Racist Trope Reemerges

October 11, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Carl Zimring
In light of the recent controversy over Dove’s body wash ad, Carl Zimring revisits the history of racist attitudes towards hygiene in order to better understand the roots of present-day inequalities

Say Her Name! Confronting Erasure and Rethinking Possibilities for a Democratic Future

July 19, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Stanley I. Thangaraj
The work of women of color and trans people of color often goes unrecognized in our larger world. This silence informs us about the politics of living and which bodies and lives are made to count. Their names must be said, or the very system of inequality will continue to operate and grow.

An interview with Bertin M. Louis, author of My Soul Is in Haiti

June 15, 2017 nyupressblog 0

In this interview, Bertin M. Louis discusses protestantism in the Haitian diaspora of the Bahamas and his role as a scholar-activist and cultural critic of American anti-black racism and white supremacy.

America’s water whiplash

May 16, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Jeremy Schmidt
The Oroville Dam cannot be abandoned as it stands. Yet it is not sufficient to merely patch the problems when water’s erosive force is set to undermine the foundations of both material and myth.

Ranger Revolution

February 10, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Kerry Mitchell
The National Park Service and the fight against alternative facts.

Sipping on the Indian haterade

February 5, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Stanley Thangaraj
The small segments of South Asian Americans who support Trump, particularly Hindu fundamentalists and nationalists, seek wages from that relationship that will not secure rights for the rest of South Asian America, especially Muslim Americans.

Muslim Cool: The Playlist

December 16, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
What does Muslim Cool sound like? What are the rhythms and rhymes that fortify and carry young Muslims forward in the work of challenging anti-Blackness and all forms of inequality?

Big Biomedicine

December 6, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Joseph E. Davis
The time is ripe for a redirection of biomedical research funding and a larger re-balancing between reductionistic “fixing” and holistic “healing,” requiring a deeper understanding of the “old-fashioned” social and environmental determinants of health and illness and a renewed commitment to addressing them.

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