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W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Awarded to Mary Romero
Mary Romero, Arizona State University Mary Romero is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University and affiliate of Women and Gender
Mary Romero’s Presidential Address August 2019 in NYC
In this paper, she dismantled the false history of sociology that ignored African Americans, persons of color, women, and social activists. At the same time,
SCHOOLS, SOCIALIZATION, AND THE STATE: THE THREAT OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Abstract: School choice advocates make two arguments: the first is economic, that a “government monopoly” of schooling is inefficient, lacks accountability to consumers, and restricts
Shooting Down
images sensationalize, horrify, titillate — rarely to the spur action. We may “share” them on FB. At Christmas we may give a few bucks to “save the children.” But instead of leading to social change they pacify. Sontag was right in “regarding the pain of others” that we quickly become inured to horror — from the starving wraiths of Buchenwald to the daily genocide in Gaza.
Idolatry
“The whole concept of alienation found its first expression in Western thought in the Old Testament concept of idolatry. The essence of what the prophets
Ending public schools
The US public schools are being destroyed. This has been going on since 1954 Brown v. BoE and the all white academies that were part
Sartre’s introduction to “The Wretched of the Earth”
Sartre’s introduction to Franz Fanon’s classic “The Wretched of the Earth” is a hell of a piece of literature. It begins: “NOT so very long