Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

On Race, Class, and Education

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 29, 2022

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media

On Blackness In The Arts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 25, 2022

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

Are You Data?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 31, 2021

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Business Of Britney

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 12, 2021

Excerpt: Did we need Freud to understand that cutting off her long locks, the ultimate signifier of her hyper femininity, was akin to taking a razor to her breasts, to dissociate from the parts that trapped her?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Writer As Magazine

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 9, 2021

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created R. Kelly

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 28, 2021

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Chair Is Everything You Expect, And That’s The Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 24, 2021

Excerpt: The structure remains intact.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

The COVID Deaths We Can’t Count

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 23, 2021

Excerpt: I am in despair.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 19, 2021

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Politics

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years.