"Mistaken Identities: Nation/Race/Gender"
A discussion with Robert Jensen of the themes in his last three books
• Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, South End Press, 2007.
• The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, City
Lights Books, 2005.
• Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, City Lights
Books, 2004.
In these books, Jensen examines how nation, race, and gender affect our
understanding of ourselves, with a focus on the unjust systems of power and
privilege in which they are embedded. In each case he argues against the
dominant culture's ideology and for a politics of liberation.
Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board
member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center
http://thirdcoastactivist.org.
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Radical Publishing with the South End Press Collective
Alexander Dwinell, a member of the South End Press collective, will provide a sneak peak at some of the exciting books that South End will be publishing in the coming year, answer questions about how the press operates, and explain why this is a vital time to support radical, independent publishing.
For over 30 years South End Press has been publishing books that encourage critical thinking and constructive action on the key political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological issues shaping life in the United States and in the world. From bell hooks to Noam Chomsky, from Vandana Shiva to INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, from Arundahti Roy to Robert Jensen to people you haven't heard of yet, South End seeks to amplify voices that just might change the world.
And from its inception, South End Press has tried to walk the walk as well as talk the talk. It is organized itself as an egalitarian collective with decision-making arranged to share as equally as possible the rewards and stresses of running the business. Each collective member is responsible for core editorial and administrative tasks, and all collective members earn the same base salary. The Press also has made a practice of inverting the pervasive racial and gender hierarchies in traditional publishing houses; our staff has had a female majority since the mid-1980s, and has included at least 50 percent people of color since the mid-1990s
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