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  • Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?

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    July 18, 2023
  • Science That Unsettles

    NOTE: This article was originally published on realscientists.org in 2017* INTRODUCTION How can we transform societies? How can we help people organize human beings towards the transformation of their society? This process is a science.  To be interested in the transformation of the ethics and relations that exist between humans, institutions, and sets of resources…

    June 20, 2023
  • Making the Other: Racism/Racialization as an Alternative Exchange System

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    June 20, 2023
  • Structure and Agency

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    June 20, 2023
  • ‘But Some of Us Are Brave’: Theories of the Body that ‘Fuck with the Grays’

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    June 20, 2023
  • How Race/ism and Patriarchy Interact To Shape Inequality

    INTRODUCTION Inequality can be best understood in the context of how humans conceptualize ‘equality’.  In the United States, a nation that projects an image of democracy and fairness, inequality is framed as a consequence of the typical stratification of ability, effort, and worth.  This can also be found in the ways that inequality is framed…

    March 19, 2019
  • Structure & Agency In Contemporary Social Theory

    One of the main concerns of theorists of society in the 20th century has been the question of the relation between structure and agency.  Describe three different schools of thought in social theory (make sure that you identify the main figures in relation to that question and compare each school’s views on the possibilities of…

    January 31, 2017
  • Labour and The Self

    QUESTION(S): What is Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self?  How is it shaped by labor processes?  According to Karl Marx, an individual’s self-identity influences their local context or is it always the converse?   INTRODUCTION Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self can be best understood through his reflections on the impact of the labor process…

    January 31, 2017
  • Summary of Classical Sociological Theory

    QUESTION(S): The basic premise of all classical sociological theory is that the contemporary world is the outcome of a transition from “traditional” to “modern” societies.  Explain how Karl Marx, Max Weber, & Emile Durkheim describe this transition.  How do they define the consequences of such a transition on western societies?  What do they think about…

    January 31, 2017
  • Critical Thinking Series: Education & Colonial Assimilation

    Introduction Critical inquiry is understood as a means through which you built and articulate an argument.  Morrow & Weston actually do a great job of taking on some of the stigma of ‘arguing’.  In their workbook for arguments, Morrow & Weston discuss the ways in which we tend to see arguments as frames of confrontation…

    October 20, 2016
  • An Overview of Dialectics & Historical Materialism

    MESSAGE TO READER FROM THE AUTHOR: Below is a summary of Karl Marx’s theorizations of dialectics and historical materialism that I put together.  What I review is the main contributions of Karl Marx’s work that contributes to how many critical scholars theorize the place of capitalism and hegemony in what we see as the history…

    January 31, 2016
  • Under Construction: Decolonized Queer Masculinity(ies)

    This is something that I have been discussing with close friends and working on what this means for myself.  As somebody who is considered an academic in some sense, a lot of figuring this out means I’ve been reading loads of research articles, books, and articles online to look at loads of different perspectives and…

    January 3, 2015
  • Books You Can Read & 3 Docs You Can Watch Instead of Exposing Yourself to the Reactionary Lies in the “Hidden Colors” Films

    Introduction So I have been thinking about writing this post for a while & now I’m finally getting to it.  In light of a lot of people paying attention to the extrajudicial murders of Black men in the news (& all the Black women being murdered by both the police & Black men but I…

    November 19, 2014
  • What is “colonial science”? What is “decolonial science”?

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    June 20, 2023
  • The Disasters They’ve Become

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    June 20, 2023
  • Introspection & Sociological Imagination

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    June 20, 2023
  • 2022 Wrap Up & Updates

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    June 20, 2023
  • SU’21 Updates

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    June 20, 2023
  • “LOST EVERYTHING GOD BLESS!” at the corner of Billionaire’s Row

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    June 20, 2023
  • That’s Not What That Means…

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    June 20, 2023
  • Race/ism & Epigenetics

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    June 20, 2023

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