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Beyond the Neoliberal University: Lessons from Mondragón University and 1930s...
ALEXANDER KOLOKOTRONIS CCNY Philosophy Department, of which Abraham Edel was a part. University governance is approaching a critical juncture. In the United States, universities are tailoring...
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The End of Miss and Mister: Gendered Titles and Political Correctness
JENNIFER POLISH Louise Lennihan, Interim Provost of the Graduate Center, CUNY, drafted the memo abandoning gendered titles in all official correspondence. Miss and Mister are no longer acceptable...
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Moving Past Hagiography in Civil Rights Cinema
MICHAEL STIVERS David Oyelowo, as Martin Luther King Jr., in discussion with director Ava DuVernay Three young men are sprinting down a tree-lined block as the sun hits them in pulses through the...
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Martins & Malcolms: The Moderates and Militants of New York City’s...
ASHOKA JEGROO One of the many unauthorized protest actions in New York City in the wake of a grand jury’s non-indictment for the Eric Gardner murder case. There is a scene in Ava DuVernay’s...
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The month of March has been Women’s History Month in the United States since 1981. It was officialized in the context of second-wave feminism, particularly after the growing importance of Women’s...
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Cyclical Chaos: The Central African Republic’s Troubled Past and Uncertain...
DENISE RIVERA African Union peacekeepers from Rwanda search a suspected Anti-Balaka fighter in Bangui. In March 2013, the President of the Central African Republic, François Bozize, fled the country...
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Scumbags Work Together: The NYC Black Lives Matter Movement and its Enemies
ASHOKA JEGROO The cover of the Daily News, 24 December 2014 The movement to end state violence against people of color and to end systemic racism is no straightforward endeavor. It is not a gift that...
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“Society is a Lover’s War”: On Kehinde Wiley and the Politics of Love
CLAY MATLIN Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn), until May 24th One of Wiley’s renditions in Rumors of War, developed from “Equestrian Portrait of the...
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The Politics of Mourning: From Charlie Hebdo to Chapel Hill
MIRI GABRIEL Chapel Hill murder victims, Deah Shaddy Barakat (left) and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salah, on their wedding day. Last week, I lost someone I can never regain. With that, I lost a...
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A Pilotless Plane with Two Right Wings: Israel and Palestine after the Elections
AMIRA HASS An IDF soldier casts his ballot during the recent election. I notice quite a few people have become depressed, at least I got it in writing from one of my friends here, she’s depressed...
View ArticleEditorial: More Propaganda, Less Liberalism: Our Ongoing Struggle
When I began my tenure as Editor-in-Chief of the Advocate, I, along with then Managing Editor Cristina Pérez Díaz and Associate Editor Francisco Fortuño Bernier, drafted an open letter to the Graduate...
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Pushing Back Against the Landlords: Low-Income Residents and the Struggle for...
PAUL MCBREEN Letitia James speaking at an Affordable Housing Rally in Washington Heights. Homelessness in New York City is overwhelmingly caused by evictions, and on any given night, there are 58,000...
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Book Review: The Need for Something New Under the Sun
ERIK WALLENBERG Naomi Klein. This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate. Simon & Schuster, 2015, 566 pages. Following the People’s Climate March, Naomi Klein address other activists at...
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Fighting for Feminism: Well…Sort Of
JENNIFER POLISH Last month’s Advocate editorial, “A New Feminism,” by Gordon Barnes, offers some excellent critiques of second-wave, White-dominated feminism as “a tool for reinforcing dominant...
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The Seeds of a Revolution: The Anatomy of the Baltimore Revolt
GORDON BARNES Baltimore Youths engaged in combat with Police forces, Monday, 27 April. In October 1865, in Morant Bay, Jamaica, a man was arrested for “trespassing” on a long abandoned plantation....
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Prisoners for Profit: CUNY Prison Divest and the Carceral State
CHRISTINA NADLER, MELISSA MARTURANO, and SEAN M. KENNEDY Agbasoga (second from left, front row) and Trupin (fourth from left, back row) with other members of CUNY Prison Divest at a strategizing...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the President and Provost
Naomi Podber Dear President Robinson and Provost Lennihan, I briefly met with President Robinson during his open office hours this past fall, and he suggested that I write to both of you with my...
View ArticleEditorial: Questions of Diversity
Dadland Maye In the last editorial, I questioned President Chase Robinson’s and the English department’s commitment to resisting institutional and careerist strategies that profit from trafficking in...
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A Genealogy of Violence: Understanding the Massacre in Ankara
Eylul Fidan Akinci Turkey saw its largest mass murder by two synchronized suicide bombings at the large-scale “Labour, Peace and Democracy” rally held in the capital city Ankara on 10 October. As of...
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How to Fly High Without Moving Forward: The Continued Drug War Waged by...
Ashoka Jegroo Earlier this month, a young woman woke up one morning, grabbed her schoolbag, and made her way to Wall Street on a day that felt like any other. At around 8:30am, as she walked through...
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