Tag: Race Class and Gender

Everyday Forms of White Supremacy

When we see white supremacy only in its most explicit incarnations, we lose sight of how racism operates.

Food Drive for the Aspiring Attorney

For-profit law schools are likely to remain unchallenged under Trump.

Embodying History

How Fred Korematsu’s story reveals history’s evocative and empathetic power.

The Hand Work of the Footbound

Chinese women practiced footbinding for centuries—why is still too little understood.

Women and the World in Academia

How the global character of higher education has given women a leg up in STEM fields.

What’s Wrong with Paid Family Leave?

Without broader cultural changes paid family leave is only a Band-Aid—or worse yet, a stigma.

A New (Old) Narrative for the Left

In the Trump era Democrats need to revive their critique of the abuse of economic power.

Militarization and Multicultural Rights

U.S. intervention in Nicaragua has had lasting consequences for Afrodescendants.

Diversity: America vs. France

Two authors discuss how notions of race, culture, and gender differ when we toggle between American Exceptionalism and the French Exception.

Against Abstraction

The most alarming aspect of the American political climate today is a failure of empathy.