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Cultural Studies

Risk

—Robert F. Reid-Pharr
We must reevaluate the strength of the words we produce, that we might produce work equal to the profound need and grand promise of our difficult and interesting times.
Anthropology

America’s water whiplash

—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.
Cultural Studies

We Need Algorithmic Transparency

—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.
Education

“Moonlight” schooled Hollywood on race. Can it take on school discipline, too?

—Derek Black
This year’s Academy Award winner for best picture tackles a difficult topic in the education world today: school discipline.
American History

Trump’s assault on our national history must end

—Thomas A. Foster and Margaret Storey
Trump’s poorly informed comments about the Civil War are part of a larger pattern by the president of misrepresenting the facts of American history for political purposes.

Risk

May 18, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Robert F. Reid-Pharr
We must reevaluate the strength of the words we produce, that we might produce work equal to the profound need and grand promise of our difficult and interesting times.

Irish-Americans: Remember from whence you came

March 17, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Paul Moses
On this St. Patrick’s Day in the midst of a bitter national debate over immigration, Paul Moses remembers John F. Kennedy’s A Nation of Immigrants. “The Irish,” wrote Kennedy, “were the first to endure the scorn and discrimination later to be inflicted, to some degree at least, on each successive wave of immigrants by already settled ‘Americans.’ ”

Resistance Now and Then

February 1, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Gerald Horne
African American history provides a textbook for resistance against oppressors and points in a similar direction: that is, to be effective in the U.S., resistance—dialectically—must be global.

Love Doesn’t Trump Hate

January 11, 2017 nyupressblog 0

—Lee Bebout
White supremacy is reinforced by and persists because of a complex of emotions. Love does not exist above and beyond hate in a distinct sphere. Love and hate are side by side, they stick together, they intermingle, they interpenetrate. “Love Trumps Hate” is a catchy slogan, but these words do something that we cannot continue. They hinder understanding.

This “Nation of Immigrants” Created Trump: Race, Gender, Media and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration

October 20, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Leah Perry
Trump’s racist, sexist, violent anti-immigration rhetoric developed from the “immigration emergency” and “nation of immigrants” discourses established in 1980s policy and pop culture, in response to the civil rights and “second-wave” feminist movements.

Taking a stand by sitting down: Kaepernick, Abdul-Rauf and the national anthem

September 1, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Zareena Grewal
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sat in protest during the playing of the national anthem during a game last week, is at the center of our current iteration of the debate about free speech and the place of politics in sports.

Environmental racism Twitter chat with Carl Zimring

May 2, 2016 nyupressblog 0

On Tuesday, ahead of the President’s visit to Michigan, we will discuss developments in the Flint water crisis and environmental racism with Carl Zimring on Twitter.

Any Day Can Be Mama’s: Food and Mothering in the Lucumí Religion

April 27, 2016 nyupressblog 0

—Elizabeth Pérez
Elizabeth Pérez, author of Religion in the Kitchen, discusses the many types of motherhood in the Lucumí religion, popularly called Santería.

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