If Marx and Engels were right that capitalism creates “its own grave-diggers,” then the most revolutionary of these grave-diggers are the colonized people—the women, the children, the minorities, the immigrants, and the people of color.
Category Archive: civil rights
On March 5th, 2020, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate into alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
Social movements from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to #metoo have through their activism rejected the inheritances of the past and created new ways of understanding our contemporary world and acting in the present.
Hope in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances has been a perennial theme in the stories we humans […]
In the summer of 2017, I drove with one of my children to pick up another at a […]
The auditorium was at capacity in Tampa Bay, Florida for the 2016 North American Society for the Sociology […]
When we talk about advances in civil and gay rights, we often talk in terms of famous firsts: […]
In memory of Olga Gutiérrez, 1937-2016 The professor started talking about segregation in the South, of blacks, of […]