Labor-Value Commodity Chains: The Hidden Abode of Global Production
March 18, 2020
—Intan Suwandi
Read an excerpt from Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism
Category: Economics
The New Imperialist Structure
February 19, 2020
—Samir Amin
Explore an excerpt from The Long Revolution of the Global South: Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International, the final writings of Samir Amin.
The Price of Freedom in Orange Is the New Black
June 22, 2016
—Jill A. McCorkel
Season three of Orange is the New Black introduced us to a new character, one that you won’t find on listed among the show’s cast or analyzed in any detail on the many blogs devoted to the series. The character in question is Management & Correction Corporation (MCC), the private corporation that receives a contract from the feds to take over day-to-day operations of Litchfield prison.
Lingering Trauma in Tohoku Five Years On
March 11, 2016
Five years on, the excruciating tragedy of 74 elementary students who drowned near the Okawa elementary school in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011 resonates painfully.
Putting the Lead in Structural Violence
January 26, 2016
—Peter C. Little As anthropologist and disaster studies expert Gregory Button, author of Disaster Culture, recently put it, the unfolding disaster in Flint, Michigan is more than a case of… READ MORE
Love travels: Queer friendship across class lines
June 19, 2014
—Lisa Henderson Hotel giant Marriott International has unveiled its #lovetravels marketing campaign just in time to sponsor Pride events this June in Washington, DC, New York City, and San Francisco…. READ MORE
Book giveaway: Open Veins of Latin America
May 29, 2014
Since its publication in 1971, Open Veins of Latin America has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has sold more than a million copies. Written by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo… READ MORE
GOP’s slick Black History ads fall short, miss the point
February 6, 2014
—Andra Gillespie [Note: This op-ed originally appeared on CNN.com on February 5, 2014.] It’s February and Black History Month, and networks and major consumer brands are reprising their annual ad campaigns honoring… READ MORE