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blogs.swarthmore.edu
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| | | | | [AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e... | |
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martinapugliese.github.io
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| | | | | Tech, data and 1000s wonderful things | |
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americanaffairsjournal.org
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| | | | | The tensions introduced by the prominence of a still partially medieval institution in modern society can only be resolved in two possible ways: the creation of institutions of education and knowledge production on a more modern model; or a partial neo-feudalization of the modalities, if not the class structure, of modern society, a process already underway... | |
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aeon.co
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| | | The Anthropocene idea has been embraced by Earth scientists and English professors alike. But how useful is it? | ||
