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Marable’s first demand was that the black studies community redefine the history of black political thought and activism to situate it within the era of globalization??an extremely valid criticism that reflects a division in the discipline. Many black academics are caught within a paleo-liberal ideological framework, which does not reflect the rising tide of immigration or an understanding of contemporary global political economy. Much of the teaching of black political history is still couched in the binary conflict of integrationist versus separatist, which may be useful for middle school, but which...
What will strike most visitors to Egypt—torn between urgent and exaggerated preservation of tradition and the promise of growth, the schizophrenia of globalization??are Egypt’s glaring contradictions and ironies. It is not uncommon to walk through bazaars and see women covered from head to toe in black, veiled except for their eyes, rifling through gargantuan vats of skimpy thong underwear. It is perfectly acceptable, even normal, for male soldiers to hold hands and kiss one another on the street, machine guns slung casually by their sides. At the same time, though, wives...
When his eight-person study group “Activism Now!: Students, Sweatshops and Globalization?? traveled to Miami last November, the students had intended to observe a protest on an international conference on the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas...
...covered airfare for the Miami trip in order to enable members of IOP fellow Tom Hayden’s study group “Activism Now!: Students, Sweatshops and Globalization?? to study the thousands of demonstrators present last week...
Contrary to the rhetoric of news organizations covering the event, the prevailing message wasn’t simply “anti-globalization,” or any such ideological catch-all. “Globalization?? per se was not the problem; rather it was a question of how globalization is being pursued, a question of who is benefiting and who is getting screwed. The demonstrators force us to ask whether the interests of the world’s poorest and most oppressed have been left unheeded. For example, although international trade has the potential to lift millions...