Colonizing Black Female Bodies Within Patriarchal Capitalism

Black Capitalism : the Path to Black Liberation ?

Back in 1960 the demand at Greensboro, North Carolina, was for a twenty cent harrburger at a downtown white-owned lunch counter. Since then, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches . for jobs, income and decent housing, and finally urban riots have become vehicles for black expression against racism and for a fair share of American affluence. The response of the white corporate sector to such anguished...

Fundamental Strings as Black Bodies

We show that the decay spectrum of massive excitations in perturbative string theories is thermal when averaged over the (many) initial degenerate states. We first compute the inclusive photon spectrum for open strings at the tree level showing that a black body spectrum with the Hagedorn temperature emerges in the averaging. A similar calculation for a massive closed string state with winding ...

Chicks, Hawks, and Patriarchal Institutions:

Cooperation occurs only in the shadow of conflict. Conflict lies at the heart of sexual reproduction.

Women’s Authority in Patriarchal Social Movements: The Case of Female Salafi Preachers

How do women gain authority in patriarchal religious social movements and how does their authority differ from that of men? This paper examines the authority of female preachers in the Islamist Salafi movement through an analysis of 21,000 texts by 172 men and 43 women on the Salafi-oriented website saaid.net. Salafi gender ideology is not friendly to women’s authority, so why are so many women...

Electromagnetic Ponderomotive Forces within Material Bodies.