3/28/2019

How do economics shape the feelings and thinking of the people Hochschild profiles, especially their feelings and thinking about race, immigration, welfare, and other political issues? I understand the shame of getting help. I understand how it feels when you must go the rely on others so you could do what needs to be done. …

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M. March 18

What vision of the future has academics and scholars pinned on Hawaii’s high-rate of intermarriage? On what facts and hopes have they based this vision? In Olson’s view, how likely is their vision of a racially-mixed future to be accurate? In the essay The End of Race: Hawaii and The Mixing of People by Steve …

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In what sense is “race” real? What would it take for there to be an end to racism?

It’s is really in a sense of the tribe. It the idea that tribe transients direct social connections. Will it end? In all likelihood in mainstream society, yes. There will always be some holdout, but as our world gets smaller it is getting more and more disadvantages, economically and socially, to discriminate and hate along …

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