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Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism

Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism

        Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson...

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Lebensphilosophie in Queensland, 1 December 2024.

Lebensphilosophie in Queensland, 1 December 2024.

Update Preface.     Dr Michael Macklin is a former Dean at the University of New England: the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science from 2002 to 2007, and Macklin also represented the University as the Director, UNE...

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Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites

Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites

Dear friends,     Thoughts?  A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology.  But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of...

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I’m livin’ in the 70’s

I’m livin’ in the 70’s

Spiral Historiography. "I'm living in the Seventies". Skyhooks. The political topics and rhetoric has spiral back to the 1970s pattern.             I'm livin' in the 70's Eatin' fake food under plastic trees My face gets dirty just...

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