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Sultana quoted in Truthout article on students' travel during pandemic
See related: COVID-19, United States
Jackson op-ed on protectionism, white femininity published in Truthout
"White women have to disabuse themselves en masse of the notion that they are inherently good. They have to put themselves in harm’s way, disrupt the status quo of their own complicity in white supremacy and defer to those who are more vulnerable than themselves," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.
See related: Political Parties, Race & Ethnicity, U.S. Elections, United States
Jackson discusses forced sterilizations, criminalization via Truthout
"The United States’s commitment to eugenics, medical abuse and forced sterilizations depicts the complex nature of perceived criminality in this country," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "By marking certain people’s bodies as inherently...anti-patriotic, the state casts a veil over the grave human rights infringements and institutional abuses it enacts against nonwhite, non-wealthy, non-male, non-normative people."
See related: Gender and Sex, Human Rights, State & Local, United States
Montez study on life expectancy, state policies featured in Huffington Post
See related: Longevity, Political Parties, State & Local, U.S. Health Policy, United States
Jackson discusses Kamala Harris as vice presidential pick in Teen Vogue, Truthout
"Despite the historic nature of her career and vice presidential nomination, we can’t lose our capacity to remain critical of her record and uncertain about how her potential vice presidency might affect marginalized communities," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science.
See related: Black, U.S. Elections, United States
Bennett discusses prejudice during NYC's cholera outbreaks in Truthout
According to David Bennett, professor emeritus of history, immigrants "drew hostility because of their poverty; the diseases they brought with them after the perilous ocean voyage; [and] the slum housing they were forced to live in."
See related: COVID-19, New York City, State & Local