By Larry S. Temkin (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Equality has long been among the most potent of human ideals and it continues to play a prominent role in political argument. Views about equality inform much of the debate about wide-ranging issues such as racism, sexism, obligations to the poor or handicapped, relations between developed and developing … Continued
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Michel-Rolph Trouillot places the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution, alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo and Christopher Columbus in this moving and thought-provoking meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Silencing … Continued
By Winifred Breines (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated movement remains … Continued
Edited by Mar Hicks (NHC Fellow, 2018–19), Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, and Kavita Philip This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, … Continued
As the 20th century came to a close and the 21st began something occurred in the United States that was both internationally unparalleled and historically unprecedented. Between 1970 and 2017 more people were incarcerated in this country than were imprisoned anywhere else in the world, and at no other point in this nation’s recorded past … Continued
We live in a time of staggering economic equality. It shapes our politics, our culture, and our social relations. Yet it was not always this way. How did we get here? What historical issues drive the politics of inequality? How do questions of gender, race, immigration, and cultural values play a role? In this webinar, … Continued