Volume 3 Number 2 April 2010

Selectively Forgetting Baudrillard: Rescuing Praxis from the Wreckage

I argue that Jean Baudrillard’s post-1970s work makes numerous wrong turns from the point of view of a philosophy of praxis. While Baudrillard’s work is indispensable for the evolution of...

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Post Civil Rights Racism and the Need to Challenge Racial/Ethnic Inequality b...

A large body of sociological literature suggests that post civil rights racism in the United States is often hidden behind widely celebrated liberal principles such as individualism, meri...

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The First 100 Days Stormfront Responds to Obama’s Presidency

This paper is a follow-up analysis of an article by Dentice and Williams (2008) that tracked the presidential campaign on Stormfront.org prior to the election of our nation’s first Africa...

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Tropic Constructions of the Self

This essay examines the relationships between tropic strategies used in the construction of the self in the human sciences, in the humanities, and in culture and the political and social ...

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Book Review: Secession: How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themsel...

Is secession a viable political alternative for states such as Vermont, Hawaii, and Texas? Can secession restore a balanced budget, peace, and environmental justice for states willing to ...

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Book Review: Capital as Power: A Study in Order and Creorder

The authors of Capital As Power wish, as they said in their own words at a recent Rethinking Marxism conference, to perform a ‘ctrl-alt-del’ on current political economy. The basis for th...

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Book Review: Girls' Studies

“Girls Can Do Anything!” Both of my daughters, now ages 7 and 10, wore these t-shirts proudly until each had outgrown what became dingy looking rags that barely covered their belly button...

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Book Review: This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution ...

This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA is a welcome addition to the growing literature emerging today that calls for radical change to the world in whi...

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