#NowOut : Janelle Wong warns against a thin reading of racial triangulation theory that draws false equivalencies across racial groups and minimizes analyses of institutional anti-black racism.

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#NowOut : Claire Jean Kim replies to her readers and previews the arguments of her new work, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World, which “significantly revises the racial triangulation theory laid out in Bitter Fruit.”

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#NowOut : Michael Javen Fortner argues that Kim’s research uncovers the importance of class and economics, but he suggests she might have pursued these dimensions of power in contemporary urban politics more fully.
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#NowOut : Jane Junn's article, 'The Legacy of Bitter Fruit in Political Science', applauds Bitter Fruit as a tour-de-force that pushes scholars to acknowledge the complexity and the importance of a relational methodological approach.
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#NowOut : In Fred Lee's analysis of Bitter Fruit by Claire Jean Kim, he highlights her work as exemplary of how Asian American political thought maps Asian American positionalities within local and regional political orders.

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#NowOut : Dianne M. Pinderhughes writes that Kim’s introduction of “civic ostracism” and “relative valorization” allowed scholars of race to compare black Americans to other non-white groups.

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#NowOut : In 'Educating the Body Politic: How Hobbes’s Civil Science Strengthens and Constrains the Sovereign', Black argues that Hobbes’s Leviathan offers a theory of sovereignty shaped and even limited by the practical and pedagogical work of government.
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#NowOut : John M. Meyer claims that 'Populism itself can be understood as a response to perceived exclusion and marginalization, making it possible to conceptualize a more heterogeneous conception of populism’s 'people'.”

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#AheadofPrint : Cecilia Sebastian's article 'Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition' revisits Angela Davis’s 1969 dissertation on the philosophy of Kant, putting it in conversation with her more recent writings on prison abolition. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

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#NowOut : our latest #AskaPolitical Scientist features Prof. Nicholas Xenos, who reflects on Critical Theory, Democratic Politics, and the Problems with Patriotism.
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In “Revoke the Charters: A Critical Reevaluation of Charter Schools,” Jeremy Kingston Cynamon and Sonia Maria Pavel argue that charters unfairly reduce the quality of education for some students, thus resulting in substantively unjust outcomes.
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Alexander Diones's (Alex Diones) article reconstructs an alternative vision of critical theory and practice by taking 'Marcuse’s 1955 Eros and Civilization as an occasion to rethink the affective commitments of critical theory'.

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#NowOut : Agatha A. Slupek's (agatha slupek, ph.d.) new article 'deepens existing feminist interpretations of the tragedy by centering the mythical Furies’ relationship to the practice of swearing and keeping oaths in ancient Greece.'

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Serrin Rutledge-Prior's (Serrin Rutledge-Prior) article #NowOut argues that 'the 'veganization' (as a form of 'issue-privatization') and criminalization of animal activists in public discourse are both forms of depoliticization.

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