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Hard Times in Big Easy
No full textWe experienced Katrina, but did we understand what we experienced? Do we really know the causes of the damage that was done and who was responsible? Have we undertaken real efforts to compensate those whose lives were damaged and to redevelop the areas most affected? Isn’t it ironic that the two areas most affected, most damaged, most destroyed as the result of human activity and not simply the result of levee failure have received the least attention and have had only a minuscule amount of redevelopment compared to other areas of New Orleans? Is it any wonder I do not celebrate the redevelopment of New Orleans? What do I, a child of Lower Nine, have to celebrate
Special Education Funding in Pennsylvania: The Effects of a Policy of Neglect
Get PDFThe past 10 years have seen substantial changes in special education enrollments and funding in Pennsylvania. School district enrollments have been declining slightly, while the number of special education students in charter schools has been increasing. District expenditures for special education have steadily increased, while state subsidies for special education have stagnated for the past six years and the state share of support has declined. This state policy choice has resulted in an increase in districts’ costs of over 1 billion from 2009–2010 through 2013–2014. Over half of these payments, $550 million, are in excess of the charter schools’ reported expenditures for special education, providing charter schools with a disguised subsidy for their general operations. The new special education funding formula from the legislature, while a step in the right direction, has not yet provided enough new money to make any substantial difference for district budgets
The Charleston Imperative: Why Feminism and Antiracism Must Be Linked
No full textAs antiracists, we know that the struggle against racial terror is older than the Republic itself. In particular, we remember the work of Ida B. Wells, who risked everything to debunk the lies of lynchers over one hundred years ago. Today, we see that fierce determination in Bree Newsome, who scaled the thirty-foot flagpole at the South Carolina State Capitol and brought down the Confederate flag. As feminists, we recognize how racism has been—and is still—gendered. Patriarchy continues to be foundational to racial terrorism in the United States, both in specious claims that justify the torture of Black men in defense of white womanhood, and in its brutal treatment of Black women and girls. We also recognize that while patriarchy and racism are clearly intertwined, all too often our struggles against them are not.If the reaction to the Charleston massacre is to be realized as something beyond a singular moment of redemptive mourning, then neither the intersectional dynamics of racism and patriarchy that produced this hateful crime nor the inept rhetorical politics that sustain the separation of feminism from antiracism can be allowed to continue.
Black in English: Race, Migration, and National Belonging in Postcolonial Italy
No full textBuilding on the growing body of scholarship on comparative race and ethnicity, this article considers how immigrants of color and their descendants interpret, translate, and deploy politicized ethno-racial terms (Black, Latinx) to confront racism in contemporary Italy. Through the analysis of cultural texts, including interviews, speeches, and a novel, I argue that terms, ideologies, and racial processes have become both local and global as immigrants and new citizens build transnational networks of contestation from which to confront the violence of coloniality and exploitation that led them to migrate while asserting belonging in the nations in which they reside.
COMMONWEALTH Matters
Get PDF“COMMONWEALTH Matters” provides an overview of the articles in issue 18:2, as well as information on upcoming issues and access to the journal beginning in 2017
Walter Bresette: “All Struggles Are Related”
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Sharing Knowledge, Practicing Democracy: A Vision for the Twenty-First-Century University
Get PDFElite research universities must ask themselves why they are willing to invest large sums of money to send students on study-abroad programs in Latin America but will not encourage their students to meet their Latina and Latino neighbors down the street. They should also ask why so many of our institutions contain experts on clean-water technology, the history of feminism, and the rise of religious intolerance in the West who have never asked their students to consider how they might address tainted water supplies, sexual violence, or religious conflict in their own communities. We do, indeed, need to reduce US provincialism, and this will require more international literacy and contact. But intellectual cosmopolitanism does not require that we ignore the problems of our own communities. Global practices of solidarity cannot be cultivated by perpetuating segregation as the dominant habit of mind among educated elites or as a structuring principle of our universities and our cities
Introduction: Banking without Borders: Culture and Credit in the New Financial World
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