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“All Of These Political Questions”: Anticommunism, Racism, And The Origin Of The Notices Of The American Mathematical Society, Michael J. Barany
“All Of These Political Questions”: Anticommunism, Racism, And The Origin Of The Notices Of The American Mathematical Society, Michael J. Barany
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
A recent controversy involving the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and questions of politics, racism, and the appropriate role of a professional mathematical organization began with a comparison to events the American Mathematical Society confronted in 1950. A close look at the AMS’s own archives for that period shows that the controversies that vexed the society around 1950 do indeed resonate strongly with those of today, but not in the ways recently suggested. Then, as now, the AMS confronted allegations of political and viewpoint discrimination in universities, the challenges of structural racism in American education and society, and the …
The Bohemian Bolsheviks, Dale Cook
The Bohemian Bolsheviks, Dale Cook
Masters Theses, 2020-current
This project used two socialist magazines to analyze the relationship between radical politics and the historical moment. Political radicals worked outside of the mainstream and aimed to influence the creation of a dramatically different future. The question then was how did a group of radicals like those that worked on The Masses and the Liberator deal with the open contingency of history, that their imagined future may never come or could appear in a different form than they imagined, and how did they communicate that vision of the future in an intelligible way. Based on the magazines, I argued that …
The 1950s “War On Narcotics”: Harry Anslinger, The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics, And Senator Price Daniel’S Probe, William J. Horvath
The 1950s “War On Narcotics”: Harry Anslinger, The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics, And Senator Price Daniel’S Probe, William J. Horvath
Harvey M. Applebaum ’59 Award
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