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The Forgotten History of Feminismo Americano

  • by Katherine M. Marino
  • Posted on February 22, 2019February 22, 2019

Feminismo americano galvanized leaders and groups throughout the Western hemisphere who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism—a fight for women’s rights and human rights on a global scale.

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What Is a Gift?

  • by Rebecca Colesworthy
  • Posted on January 24, 2019February 17, 2019

But whatever a gift is and however we define it, we tend to think that we know what it is. We assume that when you or I say “gift” we are talking about the same thing—that what we mean is a given.

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Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

  • by timothylombardo
  • Posted on October 16, 2018October 23, 2018

In this excerpt from his book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics (University…

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Cornpone Cultural Politics in The Beverly Hillbillies

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on September 25, 2018October 28, 2018

Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.

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Where Are You From?

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on October 17, 2017October 20, 2017

How place determines race for racially in-between immigrants. July 4, 2002, was a particularly humid…

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White Poverty and the Legacy of Slavery in the US South

  • by Keri Leigh Merritt
  • Posted on May 15, 2017June 6, 2017

While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually…

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