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Civic engagement is a core value for me. I have always aspired to help the communities I’m from.” Mazaher Kaila, a Maxwell alumna and third-year student at Syracuse University's College of Law, moved with her family from Sudan to Central New York when she was four years old. “I realized that to make meaningful change in society, I needed to understand the systems that power it—government and politics—and that’s insight I would gain by studying political science.”
Mazaher Kaila ’19, L’22
political science, law
Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment
Jenn M. Jackson
Public Culture, January 2020
Abstract
The American imperial project exploits race, class, gender and sexual differences in the name of the state. But in what ways has the transformative nature of American imperialism intervened in the public and private lives of Black women? This essay asks, What impact has the American imperial project had on Black women’s self-making throughout the twentieth century?
The author draws on the autobiographical works of Black enslaved, postbellum, queer and transgender contemporaries to show how Black women have resisted the fungibility of their bodies through processes of self-formation and self-reclamation.
The author also relies on the theoretical works of critical race, queer and feminist scholars to frame how that resistance—whether in the form of sexual freedom, reproductive choice, or independence from traditional systems of labor—represents a critical site of possibility for understanding Black women’s social and political life worlds today.
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BaoBao Zhang Joins First Cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows
One of only 15 scholars chosen from across the U.S., Zhang will receive up to $200,000 in research funding over the next two years. Zhang will use the funding to partner with the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for New Democratic Processes to test whether public participation in AI governance is increased through the creation of public assemblies, known as “deliberative democracy workshops.”
Baobao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Private Selves as Public Property: Black Women’s Self-Making in the Contemporary Moment
Jenn M. Jackson
Public Culture, January 2020
Abstract
The American imperial project exploits race, class, gender and sexual differences in the name of the state. But in what ways has the transformative nature of American imperialism intervened in the public and private lives of Black women? This essay asks, What impact has the American imperial project had on Black women’s self-making throughout the twentieth century?
The author draws on the autobiographical works of Black enslaved, postbellum, queer and transgender contemporaries to show how Black women have resisted the fungibility of their bodies through processes of self-formation and self-reclamation.
The author also relies on the theoretical works of critical race, queer and feminist scholars to frame how that resistance—whether in the form of sexual freedom, reproductive choice, or independence from traditional systems of labor—represents a critical site of possibility for understanding Black women’s social and political life worlds today.
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