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Tag: The Racial Contract

On American Reality

Saanya KapasiMay 8, 2022

(Or The Fiction We Tell Ourselves) $300 and two suitcases each sarees became skirts kurtas became cufflinks sure, there were struggles insensitive questions, side comments but we blend in we become appealing models, even now every time we go back...

Issue #2 Mixed Media

Stop AAPI Hate

Ulia AhnMay 8, 2022

I had just arrived in Atlanta for a delayed start to my spring semester on Zoom, on March 16th, when the infamous Atlanta spa shootings took place. This incident was a physical manifestation of hate toward and racially targeted attacks...

Issue #2 Video

Re-Balancing the Scales of Justice in the U.S.

Danielle JacobyMay 8, 2022

In his 1997 book The Racial Contract, Charles Mills discusses the existence—or lack thereof—of racial justice in the United States. His description is straightforward and based on an African proverb that he uses as an epigraph to his book: “When white people...

Issue #2 Video

White Privilege and Cultural Imperialism

Sara Useche De AbreuApr 23, 2022

A TikTok Video Response During our History of Political Philosophy class in Fall 2020, we discussed that “whiteness is comparable to the air we breathe”. This metaphor makes sense if you think about whiteness shaping everything that exists as if...

Issue #2 Mixed Media

Reflections on “Whiteness as Property”

Olive TaylorApr 23, 2022

by Olive Taylor In 1689, the renowned philosopher John Locke discussed his thinking on property-ultimately highlighting that the creation of property poses moral problems as a result of the shift from the common possession of the earth to disproportionate and...