Prof. Pasternak presents “Political Rioting: A Moral Assessment”
02/08/2019
In recent years many democracies have experienced waves of riots, instigated by police brutality and racial and social exclusion…
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In recent years many democracies have experienced waves of riots, instigated by police brutality and racial and social exclusion…
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This presentation considers how race and class shape urban redevelopment initiatives in the nation’s capital. ..
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A Pentecostal church in Tivoli Gardens, a garrison community located in Kingston, Jamaica, is the spiritual home for women and youth who are also survivors of a violent 2010 security operation. ..
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Xaiver Pickett, Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University This talk explores Black rage through the life and thought of James Cone as a way to reveal the gifts that it has to offer intellectually, ethically and politically. Xavier Pickett is a Faculty Fellow in the Religious Studies Program at New York University. He is…
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Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University Drawing from her book, Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad (Duke UP, 2017), Fadeke Castor examines the role that transnational Black Liberation movements play in the development of what she coins as “spiritual citizenship.”…
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Sarah Lustbader is a Senior Legal Counsel at the Fair Punishment Project. She joined FPP after working as a Senior Program Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice and as a criminal defense attorney at The Bronx Defenders…
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Philosophers of science and social scientists have argued that diverse perspectives, methods, and background assumptions are critical to the progress of science. One way to achieve such diversity is to ensure that a scientific community is made up of individuals from diverse personal backgrounds…
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States heavily restrict immigration. Are these immigration restrictions morally acceptable? This paper will give an argument against immigration restrictions…
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Mainstream recognition of mixed-race identity, which proponents of black solidarity have sometimes feared and resisted, poses no serious threat to the stability of Black American social identity. ..
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The 2018 Women of Color in the Academy Conference will be held Friday, April 27, 2018 at Northeastern University in a facility that allows for 200 participants. Keynote speakers are Zulma Toro, President of Central Connecticut State University, Melissa Nobles, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Professor…
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