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Critical Thinking Series: Reading As The Arena Of Critical Thinking
INTRODUCTION This article covers the crucial role of reading to critical thinking. If you don’t understand the benefits of reading or why it is useful to you and crucial for your own self development then you aren’t likely to take advantage of reading lists which are crucial to sustaining an anti-colonial political awareness to then apply…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Short List of Articles on the Impact of Intersectional Hegemony on the lives of Black People In The US
“5 Black Women Share Their Experiences With the Police” by Darnell Moore – http://mic.com/articles/122714/5-black-women-share-their-experiences-with-the-police “The Pay Gap Is Even Worse for Black Women, and That’s Everyone’s Problem” – AAUW – http://www.aauw.org/2015/07/21/black-women-pay-gap/ “30 Shocking Domestic Violence Statistics That Remind Us It’s An Epidemic” by Alanna Vagianos – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/domestic-violence-statistics_n_5959776.html “7 Truths About Domestic Violence You’ll Never Learn…
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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…
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D.A.T.T. Freedom School Week 4 Summary – Cishetpatriarchy, Gender, & Sexuality
Liberation Circle & Reading Summaries from D.A.T.T. Freedom School Summer 2015 – Week 4 Cishetpatriarchy, Gender, & Sexuality The Storify for this topic’s Liberation Circle tweet chat can be found HERE. What is GENDER? Gender is the range of mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between and across, masculinity and femininity. In Western…
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D.A.T.T. Freedom School Week 3 Summary – Race & white supremacist racism
Liberation Circle & Reading Summaries from D.A.T.T. Freedom School Summer 2015 – Week 3 Race & white supremacist racism The Storify for this topic’s Liberation Circle tweet chat can be found HERE. Summary of “Fatal Invention” by Dorothy Roberts – Chapter 1: The Invention of Race & “Racial Formation in the United States” by Michael…
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D.A.T.T. Freedom School Week 2 Summary – Socialism
Liberation Circle & Reading Summaries from D.A.T.T. Freedom School Summer 2015 – Week 2 Socialism The Storify this topic’s Liberation Circle tweet chat can be found HERE. Summary of “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism” by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael – Chapter 7: The Dialectics of Liberation In Chapter Seven of his seminal work, Stokely Speaks: From Black…