Tag: Welfare

Representation matters. It matters because being seen and heard is the first step to being understood. It matters because it explains our differences and what connects us. And because “you can’t be what you can’t see.” Most of all, representation matters because it often r...

I’d like to know whether the glorified Jamshedpur-based XLRI has any course or curriculum on DRM. What about the Gati Vidhyalaya in Vadodara? Does it have? I wonder. Not yet. For GV, it is railways, railways, railways. Maybe ports, a bit, given the container movement to ports to ship the...

Lull’s opening statement — that “hegemony is the power or dominance that one social group holds over others” is clearly pertinent to the world as it is in the 21st Century, in the 2020s: the past few years as have been shaped by police brutality, protests, the covid pand...

Race and fatherlessness are two concepts that have shaped how America sees the Black father. Generally, as absent, deadbeat, irresponsible, and unsuccessful. But, it wasn’t always like that. The black family survived generations of open racism, widespread poverty, and slavery. They liv...

PASSING JUDGEMENT ON WELFARE RECIPIENTS hit the mainstream in 1976. This was when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan brought up the infamous Chicago “Welfare Queen” on the campaign trail while vying for the GOP presidential nomination. It was an outlandish, racially charged tale o...

Lull’s opening statement — that “hegemony is the power or dominance that one social group holds over others” is clearly pertinent to the world as it is in the 21st Century, in the 2020s: the past few years as have been shaped by police brutality, protests, the covid pand...