Month: January 2020

Cultural Critique, Theory

The Peoples Art: Bauhaus School of Architecture and Paul Robeson

By Serafina Harris. Culture for the Fullness of a Beloved Community  The goal of this article is to compile a moral set of values that have freed the hearts of people, that promise a future, and give a straighter back to Men. This article will discuss the rise and fall of the German Bauhaus school of Architecture in the context of the world, and Paul … Continue reading The Peoples Art: Bauhaus School of Architecture and Paul Robeson

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Biography, Theory

Aruna Asaf Ali: Building a New Vanguard for Peace

By Archishman Raju. The Indian freedom struggle is usually associated with the names of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Bhagat Singh. These figures are sometimes seen to be in opposition to each other. Aruna Asaf Ali is a name who is not known, or discussed, but she lived to participate both in India’s struggle for freedom and the task of building a nation after independence. … Continue reading Aruna Asaf Ali: Building a New Vanguard for Peace

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Research, Theory

2016: Crack in the Mirror of White Supremacy

By Meghna Chandra. Alas, my stricken kinsmen, the party is over: there have never been any white people, anywhere: the trick was accomplished with mirrors– look: where is your image now? where your inheritance, on what rock stands this pride? “Stagerlee wonders”, James Baldwin In September 2016, Hilary Clinton called Donald Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables”, the “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic— you name … Continue reading 2016: Crack in the Mirror of White Supremacy

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Theory

The Black Freedom Movement: Progressing Revolutionary Thought

By Nandita Chaturvedi. Revolutions against oppressive governments of the 20th and 21st century have taken on two distinct forms. The first is what one usually imagines when the word ‘revolution’ is uttered: a violent take-over of the state by a revolutionary vanguard, as was the case with the Russian and Cuban revolutions. The second is a transfer of power to a mass organization that follows … Continue reading The Black Freedom Movement: Progressing Revolutionary Thought

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Biography, Cultural Critique

Rabindranath Tagore and the West

By Hridesh Kedia. Rabindranath Tagore, the Bard of Bengal, is one of the greatest poets of the modern age. Tagore’s was the authentic voice of India’s civilization, as “clear and true and unaffected as the utterances of the Upanishads three thousand years ago, its wisdom unobscured by the dust of centuries”. His songs carry an invocation to the inexorable moral law which governs all life, … Continue reading Rabindranath Tagore and the West

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Theory

I Want to be Chinese

By Emily Dong. I am Chinese. But I am also American: I was born and raised in the country, shaped by distinctly American values, and that makes me able to see and understand young people in this country. Young people in the U.S. are more familiar with the “inevitability” of war and the “necessity” of machines than they are of this country’s great freedom fighters … Continue reading I Want to be Chinese

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Theory

Vietnamese Americans and the Price of Becoming White

By Brandon Do. James Baldwin, the voice of the Black Liberation Struggle, said in conversation with Nikki Giovanni:  “The standards of the civilization into which you are born are first outside of you, and by the time you get to be a man they’re inside of you. You know, what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and … Continue reading Vietnamese Americans and the Price of Becoming White

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