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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.”
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Thompson Discusses the Legacy of Far-Right Women’s Groups in the US on WORT 89.9FM
July 27, 2023
WORT 89.9FM Madison
Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center named Moms for Liberty an extremist hate group. This is after Moms for Liberty endorsed 275 winning school board candidates nationwide in 2022. They continue to target thousands of school board seats and are calling for books bans and censorship of history lessons. They also use their platforms to harass teachers and school administrators and advocate for the dismantlement of the Department of Education.
On WORT 89.9FM Madison, Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, discusses the legacy of far-right women's groups in the U.S.
"There have been women involved for a long, long time. For example, there was a very active women’s branch of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s. And many of those women, but not all, had been members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy," Thompson says.
"One of the main organizers of the Klan in the 1910s was a woman and she was a very popular speaker and writer. And women were very attracted, again, the same kind of language we see now was being used then. That the Klan was there to protect American’s values, to protect the kind of America that people remembered. …That language was current even a century ago," says Thompson.
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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.”
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Thompson Discusses the Legacy of Far-Right Women’s Groups in the US on WORT 89.9FM
July 27, 2023
WORT 89.9FM Madison
Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center named Moms for Liberty an extremist hate group. This is after Moms for Liberty endorsed 275 winning school board candidates nationwide in 2022. They continue to target thousands of school board seats and are calling for books bans and censorship of history lessons. They also use their platforms to harass teachers and school administrators and advocate for the dismantlement of the Department of Education.
On WORT 89.9FM Madison, Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, discusses the legacy of far-right women's groups in the U.S.
"There have been women involved for a long, long time. For example, there was a very active women’s branch of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s. And many of those women, but not all, had been members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy," Thompson says.
"One of the main organizers of the Klan in the 1910s was a woman and she was a very popular speaker and writer. And women were very attracted, again, the same kind of language we see now was being used then. That the Klan was there to protect American’s values, to protect the kind of America that people remembered. …That language was current even a century ago," says Thompson.
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