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The Beginning Is Near: Politics & Society in an Era of Social Movements

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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.

Michael Stauch March 20, 2019 #MeToo, civil rights, conservatism, feminism, gender, more conservatism, politics, the Left

Say Her Name! Confronting Erasure & Rethinking Possibilities for a Democratic Future

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The auditorium was at capacity in Tampa Bay, Florida for the 2016 North American Society for the Sociology […]

desiballer July 13, 2017 civil rights, feminism, gay rights, gender, race, soccer, sports, tennis, transgender

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist During World War II

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Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as […]

Joanna Dee Das June 19, 2017 book excerpt, dance, foreign policy, race, radical politics

Civil Rights History at Tropics of Meta

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Martin Luther King Day is unique among American holidays, in the sense that it does not commemorate a […]

Guest January 18, 2016 Chicano history, civil rights, Education, feminism, Los Angeles, prisons, sports, surfing

The Hateful Fifteen: Dog Meat, Light Rail, Selma, and the Many Textures of Karachi

2015 was a big year for Tropics of Meta – we wrote about subways and parking lots, learned to […]

Guest December 31, 2015 Best of, civil rights, Germany, Greece, Pakistan, South Asia, transportation, travel

White Racial Innocence Goes to War: Forrest Gump at 20

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1994—it wasn’t that long ago.  Or was it?  It was a time before iPhones, YouTube, Monica Lewinsky, WMDs, […]

Alex Sayf Cummings June 16, 2014 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, American Studies, film, gender, race, sexuality, the South, Vietnam, whiteness

The War on the War on Poverty in North Carolina

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As North Carolina has recently fallen into the hands of the far right, it is worth revisiting where […]

Alex Sayf Cummings August 13, 2013 conservatism, Education, more conservatism, North Carolina, politics, race

Raging Grannies Battle for the Soul of the New South

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America’s partisan political wars have come to North Carolina, as big-money donors have helped bring the most ideologically […]

Alex Sayf Cummings July 10, 2013 conservatism, Education, environment, healthcare, human rights, immigration, more conservatism, multiculturalism, North Carolina, race, radical politics, the South
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