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Month: January 2019

Recent work

I was recently asked to do some more work on gender and food sovereignty for a forthcoming book project. So this week, while I get some thoughts together on that and some other ongoing projects, I thought I’d share a couple of abstracts for my more formal work. The readers of this blog are almost … Continue reading Recent work →

anneportmanphd Uncategorized 4 Comments January 22, 2019 4 Minutes

Oh yeah, James Watson is racist too.

I wanted to write a loose follow up to my last piece. After reading it, my husband said to me, “I’m not really sure where you land on this.” Making my claims clear and explicit rather than suggestively gesturing toward them has always been a challenge for me. My dissertation advisor, Vicky Davion, used to … Continue reading Oh yeah, James Watson is racist too. →

anneportmanphd Uncategorized 1 Comment January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 4 Minutes

So Kant was a racist. What now?

“[T]he male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject” – Aristotle “I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all other species of men…to be naturally inferior to the whites” –David Hume “In the hot countries the human being matures earlier in all ways but … Continue reading So Kant was a racist. What now? →

anneportmanphd Uncategorized 10 Comments January 8, 2019 5 Minutes

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