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National Labor Relations Act

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protected workers' rights, helping them form unions and utilize collective bargaining; excluded agricultural and domestic workers who were mostly Black, Mexican, Filipino and Japanese

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first labor protection legislation to be passed; 40-hour work week and minimum wage; women's rights regulated hours to "prevent employer abuse" and protect their reproductive capacity, but domestic workers were not covered

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lit: 'everyone talks at once"; essential information, current events, gossip; "They do this simultaneously because, in fact, their histories are joined... to relate their tales separately would be to obliterate that connection."

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"the various voices in a piece of music may go their own ways but still be held together by their relationship to each other... an expression of true democracy, for each person is required to be an individual, and yet to do so in concert with the group"; metaphor for history: each instrument has its own piece, but they are connected by playing at the same time

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"the events and people we write about did not occur in isolation but in dialogue with a myriad of other people and events... we try to isolate one conversation and to explore it but the trick is how to put that conversation in a context which makes evident its dialogue with so many others..."

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"recognizing and even including difference is, in and of itself, not enough. Such recognition and inclusion may be precisely the way to avoid the challenges, to reaffirm the very traditional stances women's history sees itself as challenging... our acknowledgement of these differences leads us to recognize how black women's life choices have been constrained by race - how race has shaped their lives."; acknowledging differences highlights how those different identities are oppressed or privileged, how one's life is shaped by their identity

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historically, middle-class women have had other women raise their children, giving them less responsibilities and allowing them to transfer into different jobs. these opportunities positively benefit the US and allowed for the growth of the economy; the often lower-class women who work for them have more responsibilities they cannot pay to offload to others and struggle more, and they lost opportunities over time instead and many lower-class WOC are unemployed.; "Africanamerican women's lives are shaped by white women's but not the reverse. The effect of this is that acknowledging difference becomes a way of reinforcing the notion that the experiences of white middle-class women are the norm."

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French psychologist + philosoher, post-colonial theorist;

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"brought the progress of other men to a halt and enslaved them for its own purposes and glory... stifled virtually the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called 'spiritual adventure'"; Fanon calls out manifest destiny and similar philosophies used to justify colonialism, control entire populations of countries with desirable resources

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The violence of colonialism is used to control and reap goods, while the violence of revolution is not enjoyable or violence for violence' sake

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Repeatedly, the working class is sold on narratives that they too will succeed if they follow what those in charge are telling them; they are told they have more in common with the upper-class than the colonized people so they will be more obedient

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Workers only produced out of necessity, and they couldn't pick their terms of working, but they were determined by outside forces. Workers became dissociated from the capacity for joy and connection and often sacrificed their health for work. It is because of the power employers have over employees that many workplaces still cause injury, illness and death to employees

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Victorian Britain: lung disease, dermatitis, phossy jaw; Amazon employees developing UTIs because they aren't allowed to use the restroom at work; 40% of Amazon workers being injured at work, 80% of those saying it was related to production speed; 159 Apple workers in India hospitalized due to food poisoning in subpar living environment

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colonial relations continuing to shape and ground present-day political, economic, social, knowledge systems

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the process of one nation* exerting territorial, political, social, cultural power over other territories

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coloniality has been internalized by even individuals who were formerly colonized; it exists at the individual and societal level

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drawing on and centering alternatice knowledge systems to reimagine the categories of thought and knowledge that underpin our social, economic, and political structures

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examines how colonialism continues to shape modern systems, unlearning or reshaping norms that emerged from colonialism and question how one may be reproducing systems of coloniality in daily life, and advocating for individuals and institutions to center the knowledge and experiences of people marginalized by colonialism and coloniality

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"collective wellbeing"; engaging in epistemic reconstitution and reparations, advocating for a way of life that centers justice for individuals within the context of community and environmental wellbeing

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"property relations in which individuals do not own land and land resources but are rather stewards of them and have community permission to use associated resources"; eliminating private property in favor of public use and responsibility

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government support for social + solidarity economies, advocating for non-capitalist forms of market exchange and land use

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movement to build a sustainable economy where people and the environment are prioritized over endless profit and unsustainable growth

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colonialism produced and was produced by patriarchy, racism, and capitalism. to undo colonialism will be to dismantle these systems as well

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the word may become watered down when introduced to less radical circles; many decolonial theories ignore class; calls to decolonize might be mired in changes that do not cause adequate change; idealizing all pre-colonial structures blindly rather than learning

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resisting colonial structures but not necessarily striving to create wholly new ones

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processes by which external power is exercised over former colonies by other nation states or private actors; does not address epistemic reconstitution

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born into slavery, escaped with her daughter after 26 years, won freedom for her son; Ain't I a Woman? highlights the invisibility of Black women in discussions about oppression and feminism, and how they are oppressed uniquely for being black and women

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born enslaved, one of the first AA women to earn a doctoral degree; laments how AA women are "confronted by both a woman problem and a race problem, and is as yet an unknown or unacknowledged factor in both.";

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one of the first AA women to lecture on the unique position of Black women facing both racism and sexism

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"Not only are colored women... handicapped on account of their sex, but they are almost everywhere baffled and mocked because of their race. Not only because they are women, but because they are colored women."

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one of many to credit Du Bois for acknowledging "intersectional paradigms of race, class and nation when explaining the Black political economy"

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conceptualized race, class and nation as social hierarchies rather than personal identity categories

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contributed to intersectional feminism in the 70s; contributed to the desegregation of Boston schools, protests against police brutality in Black communities and violence against women

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advocate for prison abolition, requiring many new jobs, housing, and new cultural attitudes towards work, rights, restorative justice and community; "control of Black, poor, resistant bodies and labor in general first required extralegal violence, but the legitimacy of the badge replaced the discredited Klan hood."

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wrongly suggests that other forms of oppression are irrelevant, and that discourse on the oppression by gender, sexuality, race, has divided the working class; the working class has never been unified and always exploited unevenly

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"demands that plant the seeds for systemic change and challenge the very logic of the profit system"; questioning structures themself rather than just reforming them

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in this bridge we call home, elaborates on her disabilities and those of her family members, all exacerbated by factory or mining work, pollution, malnutrition, and unaffordable healthcare; this experience of disability cannot be understood outside of violence, exploitation, racism and sexism.

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intersection of gender, sex and feminist studies with disability studies; coined in ~1980s-2000s;

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those whose identities intersect to oppress them are on the floor of a basement. Those with less identities sit on the others’ shoulders, until those with one brush against the ceiling. Those who are not oppressed are in the room above the basement. Those who are only marginalized via one identity are able to reach the hatch in the ceiling and crawl up to interact with the non-oppressed in the room above, but those who are more oppressed cannot

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- theoretical fields help one understand different social contexts - theoretical fields have a history - theories build on other theories, sometimes refuting parts of them - theoretical fields are connected - dialectical relationship

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“rights-based platforms frame the nation-state as a site of protection,” which it anecdotally is not

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“State aparatuses" rarely support and regularly mistreat marginalized individuals; Police responses to mental health crises often end lethally: those who are mentally or physically disabled are likely to be viewed as deranged or unstable and met with excessive force

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