Mayra Cotta, Author at Public Seminar

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Race and Capitalism

Welcoming Michael Dawson to the New School

September 5, 2018 • by Mayra Cotta

In recent decades, the study of race and capitalism -- which reaches back to the masterful works of Du Bois, Eric Williams, Stuart Hall, James Boggs, Angela Davis, Cedric Robinson, Cornell West, Kimberlee Crenshaw, Adolph Reed, just to name a few -- has been marginalized in favor of post-structuralist or ...

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Law and Sexuality

A course and syllabus from Eugene Lang College

October 29, 2017 • by Mayra Cotta

Course Outline August 28 // Introductory Class Presentation of the syllabus and course outline August 30 // Class 01 : History of Law and Sexuality We “Other Victorians”, Michel Foucault, in The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, pp. 3-13 Extra Material: Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen R. Ghodsee, in NYT, 8/22/2017 Confrontation: Paris, 1968, Documentary by Seymour ...

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I Will Not…

Mayra Cotta on her strike

March 6, 2017 • by Mayra Cotta

I WILL NOT shut up and smile when a man treats me either condescendingly or disrespectfully. The male ego will not be regarded as this fragile thing that must be protected from confrontation.

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Regarding the “Institution-building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil: Politics, Policy and Business” Event

An Open Letter from members of the New School Community

February 6, 2017 • by Joana Avritzer, Mayra Cotta, Douglas de Toledo Piza, Victoria Echeverria De Carvalho, Flávia Leite, Tiago Lima, Luiza Nassif Pires, Tomás Pimenta, Marianna Poyares and Jussara Raxlen

The event remarkably embodies a one-sided set of views that is unrepresentative of and insensitive to the complexity of recent Brazilian politics. By presenting the Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash Operation) as paradigmatic of “institutional-building, governance and compliance” in Brazil the event implicitly embraces a narrative that contributed to the ...

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Resisting Acts of Resistance

Precarious citizenship against the militarized police

May 10, 2016 • by Mayra Cotta

In Brazil, police officers are rarely held accountable for murderous attacks on citizens. Whenever a member of the police shoots someone, the agent responsible can easily claim that he was counteracting resistance. An “act of resistance” is then written and immediately filed. This institutional and legal justification -- which needs ...

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(Which) Feminism against (Which) Capitalism?

March 4, 2015 • by Mayra Cotta

Why start a course on feminism reading the first volume of Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto? Do Marx and Engels have anything to say about gender oppression? How deeply, if at all, is patriarchy intertwined with capitalism? In which terms can the feminist struggle be part of a systemic ...