This is the last blog of Praxis Center, a years-long project of the ACSJL at Kalamazoo College.

This is the last blog of Praxis Center, a years-long project of the ACSJL at Kalamazoo College.
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
This syllabus explores histories of cultural resistance and activism in the United States from the colonial period to the present.
A pandemic bond is a financial product that is part insurance, bond, swap, and cash grant.
Noam Chomsky talks about the ways neoliberalism has brought the world to its current state with COVID-19.
A group of migrant women delivered a stage performance, Childbirth Chronicle at the Star Theatre in Beijing’s Xicheng District.
This subject will examine Chinese migration in historical and comparative perspective.
The privileging of property over human beings is not new nor is the general antidemocratic bias against the majority.
Alzo Slade talks the history of voter suppression and how it’s manifesting itself in the 2020 races.
Ithaca College is protesting racism on campus and calling for their president to resign.
In this 1965 speech, James Baldwin speaks about the state of race and racism United States.
This syllabus puts James Baldwin’s original essays, non-fiction, and public talks, in conversation with the current BLM movement.
By Richard Cartwright He felt something whizz past him, ricocheting off a metal vase and slamming…
Trevor talks with Patrisse Cullors, Josie Duffy Rice, Sam Sinyangwe, Mychal Denzel Smith, and Alex S. Vitale about the BLM movement.
This syllabus provides readings that will help readers build a greater understanding of the ideas and theories behind abolition.
White empathy proselytizers have been working to suppress Black rage and Black activist momentum for centuries.
Chescaleigh breaks down five basic tips to become better allies in this three-and-a-half-minute video.
This syllabus on race and racism focuses on the ways the social construction of race affects people’s daily lives.
Chomsky explains what neoliberalism is, how it came to be, and what it means for today’s world in the context of Trump.
Students will apply theoretical knowledge in order to develop an incisive analysis of contemporary imperialism.
Canal day doojay par shows a scene of the Lahore canal in the summers except here, I replace male bodies with non-male bodies.
Jannat Ali shares her journey of coming out to her family and to society at large as well.
The purpose of this syllabus is one of open, public education regarding trans and intersex issues in sociology, academia, and society at large
Two recent books provide new insights that may help organizers in sorting out what works from what is ineffective or even counterproductive.
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson describes how racial divisions between poor and middle-class Americans benefit the wealthy and powerful.
This course offers an introduction to contemporary sociological theory for graduate students.
The classroom can be a procreative space for building social change at the institutional and systemic levels.
This course explores spaces of detention, and engages in a historical and theoretical investigation of the processes that produce them.
Walden Bello shows how the COVID-19 crisis exposed the fragility of the present corporate and free trade driven food supply system.
Blacks, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian populations are more likely to contract COVID-19 and die from it compared to whites.
The United States is facing an economic downturn not seen since the Great Depression.
Immigrants are among the most vulnerable U.S. residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
All it takes is ONE positive case to spread this lethal virus to hundreds of vulnerable people.
In this class, we will explore some of the philosophical and political questions raised by solitary confinement.
The real problem remains the government’s failure to enforce labor laws and provide adequate legal protections to workers.
This report reviews current risks and violations in Pakistan’s textile and garment factories.
The COVID-19 lockdown in Pakistan has meant that folks who cannot afford to stay home are being arrested and punished for breaking the law.
Throughout the course, attention will be paid to how disaster planning and policy efforts can increase resilience and reduce vulnerabilities.
In a global health emergency, it is not uncommon for LGBTQ people to be blamed for disasters, both “manmade and natural”.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people may be particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BAD FORM: QUEER, BROKE & AMAZING! refreshingly challenges the myth of gay affluence and reveals an extraordinary world of resilient, economically struggling LGBT people.
Black queer and trans communities have been in the vanguard of both LGBTQ and racial justice campaigns.
This course will introduce students to the historical study of LGBTQ African Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.
It took 5 days after her request (April 8 – 13) before she got to see the doctor and get lab work done.
We get response from Linda Sarsour and Mychal Denzel Smith amid growing calls in New York City for police accountability.
Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0 is a resource for those already doing this work and those looking to carry the goal of prison abolition forward.
Any framework offering guidance on rationing scarce healthcare resources in the US must explicitly address inequities.
Ways and Means Committee hearing on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.
This course examines how social, economic, environmental, cultural and lifestyle factors contribute to differences in morbidity and mortality.
There have been violent protests across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles.
We call for a more inclusive and less segregated, and publicly supported child care sector.
We look at the impact of the pandemic and who is at the table to shape what happens next.
Low-income first-generation students are grappling with keeping higher education plans in the midst of the pandemic.
This seminar examines the phenomenon of “scholar activism,” also referred to as scholar advocacy.
Our idea that life itself is merely a tick-tock in time has everything to do with our insistence that we are nothing in the universe.
The aim of the study was to define and identify the symptoms of elder abuse, create awareness and strategize for its prevention.
Indigenous peoples worldwide are being dispossessed of their land at an intensified rate.
This zine is a compilation of resources accessible online to support mutual aid-based projects.
The global lockdown and restrictions on movement have been catastrophic for women at risk of domestic abuse.
We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations.
As I write today, the novel coronavirus, Covid-19 pandemic has crossed oceans and lands, carried by human breath.
Renata Flores is a young artist keeping the Quechua language alive through her music.
The program focuses on the development of written and oral communicative abilities in Quechua.
This course analyzes the conditions that have allowed the Indian state to remain democratic.
The purpose of this course is introducing students to the concept of social change and development.
This course explores the role of the U.S. government in organizing, financing and delivering healthcare for Americans.
The response to COVID-19 in the U.S. has unveiled the persistent xenophobia against Asian Americans.
What happens when stereotypes and fear about Covid-19 arrive before the actual disease does?
This syllabus gathers textual and digital resources to provide easy access to material useful for teach-ins and talking points.
Lebanon has declared a state of emergency in an attempt to control the spread of coronavirus.
“Adrift” was collaboratively produced by Precarias a la Deriva from Madrid in November 2003.
Convivial community – based research approach is a grassroots collective investigative effort.
There’s really no telling what your journey is going to look like when you are building something that hasn’t been tried.
This module familiarise students with current theories and approaches to gender and sexuality.
As an activist and organizer I knew I had to do something to help my neighbors beyond documenting their stories.
In a Democracy Now! special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States.
This syllabus starts housing is a human right, that everyone has the right to a safe and affordable place to live.
The instigators of this race discourse were drawn from the highest tiers of American commerce, science, and government.
Museums are beloved cultural institutions but behind the scenes, a war is raging – many cultures want their heritage returned to its place of origin.
This seminar explores the history and theory of museums and delves deeply into several disciplinary perspectives on museums.
It is the most vulnerable groups that suffer the greatest impact from the climate crisis.
This course introduces students to the theoretical and historical foundations of environmental racism and environmental inequality.
It’s time to look at the impact that the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership has had on our community.
Today’s climate activists are homing in on climate justice issues, emphasizing how the climate emergency hits the most vulnerable populations with greatest force.
This course concentrate on the socio-technical aspects of the GND instead of technical responses to climate change.
The Black Left has been embattled lately, trying to imagine Black unity as the conversation about reparations for US slavery moves into the mainstream.
Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities.
This course examines institutional factors that affect the structure, evolution, and function of people of African descent.
The reparations debates for past atrocities are difficult conversations in our modern society.
Decades before the Holocaust, Germany carried out what many historians consider the first genocide of the 20th century in Namibia.
This course is concerned with the historic and contemporary reparations debate as it pertains to African Americans.
Wealth is very unevenly distributed. This has negative implications for both economic prosperity and justice.
This course is about economic inequality, its causes, how it’s affected by policy, and econometric methods that have been used.
I wanted a flag that would express that, but would also be a fighting flag, centering intersectionality within class struggle.
Black Panther Bobby Lee helping comrades in the Young Patriots organize a group of working class Whites to demand for radical change.
This course examines the history, legacy, and controversy of the Black Panther Party.
At this year’s all about women festival, we take a look back on the achievements of the different ‘waves’ of feminism.
This class will identify queer producers of culture, queer presumably heteronormative cultural artifacts, and critique queer cultural discourse.
They came because they are frustrated, angry that history seems to disregard them as it consistently favours the ruling class.
Special correspondent Jane Ferguson and Nick Schifrin take a look at ongoing protests in Lebanon and Chile.
The course go back and forth between the nature of specific social movements and scholarly debates about social movements in general.
Utopian Field is an ongoing research project that focuses on the pursuit and construction of egalitarianism during the past two centuries.
The goal of this course will be to learn something about various utopian visions and how they reflect or challenge our values and beliefs.
For me, the most eye-opening story about my grandmother is entirely unknown in the family.
Many of the women involved in Daughters of Erin were working class and in 1911 they organized themselves in the Irish Women Workers’ Union.
This is a course on the history of the American workers and the American labor movement from 1880 to 1945.
Instead of being a place of meeting differences, the Mediterranean Sea has become a deadly border between Europe and Africa.
In the first six months of 2017, the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy dropped by around half.
By completing this course, students will gain an in-depth knowledge about the role of migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The daily violence I observed at the hands of mostly Irish mothers toward Black children driving into our Boston neighborhoods cleaved a devastating gash through my story of us.
Today, Irish traditions are seamlessly embedded in American culture. But once upon a time, the American people rejected—even hated—those immigrating from the Emerald Isle.
This course will examine the historical experience of the Irish, one of the largest ethnic groups in America.
Loss—of species, habitats, etc.—is a major concern of contemporary eco-poetry, but so is the possibility of empathy and solidarity.
Tommy Pico reads from the manuscript to his forthcoming book Feed, on September 13, 2018, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.
This course examines poetry published in the nineteenth and twentieth-‐centuries, as well as contemporary times, through the lens of nature.
The New York Times presented a study in friendship between two Midwest rollerskaters who can only be described as gender non-binary.
Non-binary people define the term “non-binary,” where they encounter challenges, advice for allies, and what the future may hold.
This seminar investigates the theoretical work of queer people of color, primarily in the U.S., from the 1970s to the present.
This week would have marked Marielle’s 39th birthday. Her assassination sparked massive protests in the streets of Brazil and worldwide outcry.
Marielle Franco was a symbol of hope to many marginalized communities who felt left out of politics – here’s what led to her life of activism in Brazil.
This class investigates the race/gender/sexuality aspects of violence in Brazil, and how this violence maintains social hierarchies in the nation.
To commemorate the six year anniversary of the BLM movement, we are publishing a poem by Danielle P. Williams in memory of Tamir Rice.
This course combines Black critical theory and contemporary black poetry to think through key sites of conflict in the theorization of Blackness.
On Twitter, Trump has declared war; but his hand hovers over the orders, which he has not yet signed. But he could – at any moment.
President Trump calls off military strike against Iran minutes before launch, raising questions about his briefing on key aspects of the decision.
This course examines America’s involvement in Iran with reference to economic objectives, military assistance, strategic needs, and foreign policy.
Carnival gives me a soul-nurturing joy; it makes me the most comfortable in my Black skin. But most importantly . . . Carnival is women.
We discuss the history and culture of Carnival as it stands today: its origins, dazzling costumes and dance, and the themes behind celebrations.
The Caribbean is the United States of America’s neighbor. But how much do Americans know of the Caribbean in its rich and varied complexity?
Depression among Black men is an oft-unspoken pain that deeply affects the health and quality of life of Black people.
Members of the Black community discuss their experiences with mental illness, and why the stigma surrounding mental health must be challenged.
This course provides a broad exploration of the psychological experiences of people of African descent in the United States.
We can create a community of kin that transcends racial and ethnic boundaries to ultimately create a non-oppressive, revolutionary campus.
Members of various houses of the ball circuit, referred to as “gay street gangs,” describe their newfound families.
This course explores kinship anthropologically through its relation to other feelings and things like power, authority, violence, and loss.
jessica Care moore speaks about her life, work, Detroit, and the importance of supporting artists who love your community.
Using Jazz, Gospel, Neo-Soul, and Hip‐Hop music genres, this course explores the performance of the black woman’s voice in 20th century literature and music.