Tag Archives: Race
The Academic Feminist: Women of Color, Racism and Resilience in Academia
TweetWelcome back, Academic Feminists! Today, I am proud to present an interview with Carmen G. González, professor of law at Seattle University School of Law, who, together with co-editors Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Angela P. Harris, recently released the collection, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in [...]
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Quick hit: Ta-Nehisi on why we have ghettos
TweetSpoiler alert: It’s not by chance. You must read TNC’s piece at The Atlantic today, about housing policy in the 1950s and how it created and reinforced the racial wealth gap. It’s a story of legalized exploitation, of how the structures and policies of the United States government were not perverted, but used as intended, [...]
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Justice for sexual violence during the Civil War
Tweet*Trigger warning* Could it be the greatest irony in our history is that our nation actively prosecuted perpetrators of rape and sexual violence during the Civil War? In 1863, President Lincoln signed an executive order known as the Lieber Codes that governed Union soldiers and protected civilian women. Historian Crystal Feimster writes in the New York [...]
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Chart of the Day: White men are 31% of the population but 58% of evening cable news guests