Category: Social Sciences
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
Lady Isdihar runs an archive of USSR era documents and some Palestine documents. This page links out to several of contemporary interest.
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
Articles from the Marxists International Archive about Jewish Communist and Socialist anti-Zionism, mainly from before 1948.
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
White nationalists believe that all of their problems with society are created by an organized conspiracy of Jewish people who are motivating and pushing immigration laws, civil rights laws, And it’s a belief system that in many ways disregards…
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The Western Gender Binary
This page is going to become a list of links to articles about the ideas of Judith Butler, and some feminist texts. History: I was intending to do a reading group for Gender Trouble, but this seems to not…
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
Why does a candidate sometimes win the popular vote, but lose the Electoral College vote? There are some misconceptions floating around about this. I’ll note them in parentheses in my explanation below: The people’s votes do not directly choose…
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
It’s one day after the hearing, and I’m still mad. The arraignment is on May 1. Show up. The organization I’m with, PANA, is preparing a statement, but I’ll share my online links below. Before that, I will share…
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
Smithsonian Magazine has a good article about Wong Kim Ark, who fought to assure birthright citizenship for all Americans. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-fight-for-birthright-citizenship-reshaped-asian-american-families-180981866/
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
This is a video essay, with a lot of references, bringing together different ideas about representation, race swapping in portrayals, and desirability and gender. It’s pretty good. I can’t evaluate beyond that, because I haven’t studied this too much.…
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
These two terms came up during the discussions about the Monterey Park shooting. It was also raised in the murder of Tyre Nichols, and the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. The following definitions are from the Canadian Race…