Hello all, This lecture was aimed at discussing why and how New York City has been repeated destroyed throughout American Popular Culture of the last two hundred years or so.  What it all comes down to seems to be a matter of Love and Hate. Hate is easy enough to understand, if you hate something […]

Hey everyone, I just finished watching a program on the History Channel called “The Antichrist.”  I thought that it was fascinating how it seems to tie together the areas of interest to the fields of quite a few of you.  I’m sorry that I didn’t know how to contact you guys in time.  The program […]

The length and the aesthetic craft of the introduction, opening the forum at the CUNY Graduate Center, attest to the magnitude of the distinguished guests joining Professor Nesaw for the discussion on Cultural Power.  Despite the presence of the preeminent professor as moderator, little guidance was needed for the dialogue, for there was no dearth […]

Apologies for uneven spacing! Jejeebhoy, Shireen J. and Sathar, Zeba A. “Women’s Autonomy in India and Pakistan: The Inlfuence of Religion and Region.” Population and Development Review 27.4 (2001): 687- 712.   The authors argue that region plays a greater significant role in women’s autonomy in India than religion, nationalism, or education. This is a very […]

Hi to all of you.  For Milushka, the NT Times Magazine has an article that should be of interest to you: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/magazine/09jihadis-t.html And for everyone, here is an article that I recommended to Roy and now think will be useful to several of you.  It discusses concepts of the Self from a feminist perspective, including the […]

Aronson, E., Wilson, T., & Akert, R. (2007). Social Psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Author’s thesis: This textbook is the standard textbook in social psychology classes. There is no one specific thesis, but the goal is to explain people in social groups. This is absolutely necessary in understanding the dynamics of NRMs. Issues tackled […]

Western culture is rife with apocalyptic imagery as depicted in the Christian bible, especially from the Book of Revelation. These symbols and descriptions (brimstone and the four horsemen of the apocalypse just to name a few) have been ingrained into our “collective consciousness” and appear throughout our art. Since the conception of Revelation, apocalyptic imagery […]

1. Bai, Juyi. “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Chang hen ge).” Repository of Chinese Literature. 2003 Feb. 7. Poet Bai Juyi retells the fall of the Tang Dynasty from its glory and the quintessential femme fatale figure of traditional China—Imperial Consort Yang Gui Fei. Historically, after Yang’s entrance into the palace, the Emperor focused his […]