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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? But gender dimorphism has to be culturally constructed and learned. Issue 251 — February 5, 2024 What is more fascinating to us humans than ourselves? Come on, admit it. How does this happen?

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Two other uses of the concept arise around the same time: Emile Durkheim’s sociological theory of social cohesion and the Marxist vision of the labor movement’s solidarity as an engine for change. But nature is not enough—you have to construct those communities and movements that foster it.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

We must begin to replace the vast architecture of private supports that women construct around their loved ones with a robust health and human services infrastructure capable of supporting the needs of all families. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. There really is a progressive climate politics under construction right now.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Mimi Niles and Michelle Drew, “Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide,” Nursing Clio (blog), October 22, 2020, nursingclio.org/2020/10/22/constructing-the-modern-american-midwife-white-supremacy-and-white -feminism-collide/. Niles and Drew, “Constructing the Modern American Midwife.”.

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