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Macalester College Department of Economics ECON242 Gender and Economics Visiting Associate Professor Giddings
Note: Image has been shamelessly lifted from Nancy Folbre's Website. She deserves all of the credit and fame for its creativity.
Welcome to a place where we can analyze such things as the strange politics of race and sex going on in our current primary election cycle. From a cogent analysis by Matthew Yglesias of Steinem's NYT op-ed piece supporting Hillary: "But here's where
being black is less of a handicap than being a woman. American society is awash
in certain negative stereotypes of African-Americans, especially
African-American men. But it's possible for any individual African-American to
"transcend" those stereotypes by simply not living up to them. So Barack Obama
can't afford to show the kind of populist outrage John Edwards expresses lest he
be deemed a threatening radical, but if he avoids falling into pitfalls of
stereotype he winds up getting praised in a somewhat condescending, but still
helpful to his political career, manner as "one of the good ones." It should be a fun semester.
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