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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ca. 1900. Photo: C. F. Lummis. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. When I first read “The Yellow Wall-Paper” years ago, before I knew anything about its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I loved it. I loved the unnerving, sarcastic tone, the creepy ending, the clarity of its critique of the popular nineteenth-century “rest cure”—essentially an extended time-out for depressed women. The story had irony, urgency, anger. On the last day of the treatment, the narrator is completely mad. She thinks she’s a creature who has emer...

Share: The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents  Isabel Wilkerson  In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States, anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching and race riots. At this auspicious moment, Lincoln University historical sociologist Oliver Cromwell Cox published his 624-page tour de force, Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in...

All, there is a sense there is a kind of voter that related to biden a bit sees him as a regular person even in his views on race over time. what's going on inside this democratic race right now? where do you see it? >> i have no idea what's going on inside the democratic party. i do think long-term this is problematic for joe biden. the idea you're going to pull out segregationist to talk about, you know, how we should deal with the negro problem and using chains and bullets and guns, the problem is -- he took too long to address it. the problem is, you know, i sat in focus groups with younge...

Trump's relationship to strife. this was his approach in his first year. >> i think there's blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there's blame on both sides and i don't have any doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. >> that was a response to white supremacist violence. now i want to play another president who also had a questionable racial record but how he responded in a moment of a national test, after violence in selma. >> there is no negro problem, there is only an american problem. it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and ...

>> now, i appreciate so much your point here about having your voice heard. we've been talking a bit about how in this war on women, that part of the issue is we don't get the opportunity to hear women's voices. and it was part of the power of your testimony soy wanted to ask you. there was an article that caught my eye this week in the texas observer called "one woman's ordeal with the texas new sonogram law." obviously you were managing an issue around contraception access. this is about the sonogram law and specifically about a woman who had a pregnancy that she wanted but had to determine ...