Month: October 2020

Professor Julie Suk’s research on the Equal Rights Amendment was featured in SUM. 

Posted on October 25, 2020 by - Department News, Other News

Julie C. Suk (Faculty)

Prof. Suk’s research on the Equal Rights Amendment was featured in SUM. 

“One Scholar’s Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment: ‘We Can Fix It’” 

Professor Julie Suk has spent more than 10 years studying the Equal Rights Amendment, tracking its progress in the U.S. and similar amendments in European countries. Now, she’s sharing her wealth of knowledge with the world in her new book, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment.

“The absence of equal rights for women in our Constitution says something shameful about the Constitution that we have,” Suk, the dean of master’s programs at The Graduate Center, CUNY,  tells SUM. “We can fix it though.”

Read more: https://sum.cuny.edu/equal-rights-amendment-women-graduate-center-julie-suk/

 

 

Andrew Anastasi – The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism,

Posted on October 25, 2020 by - Books, Recent Publications

Andrew Anastasi

Edited and translated The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism, an anthology of texts by Mario Tronti, an Italian political philosopher whose work has been widely influential among critical scholars and activists for decades, but who has remained obscure in English until recently. In addition to translations, the book also includes a substantial critical apparatus (introduction, notes, appendix) to open the work up to a wider contemporary audience.

Professor Margaret Chin’s recent book Stuck (NYU Press, 2020) was featured in SUM

Posted on October 25, 2020 by - Department News, Other News

Margaret M. Chin (Faculty)

Prof. Chin’s recent book Stuck (NYU Press, 2020) was featured in SUM. 

“Why Asian Americans Have Trouble Climbing the Corporate Ladder”

Professor Margaret Chin (The Graduate Center, Hunter) got the idea for her new book, Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder, at a Harvard Club event in New York. A Harvard alumna herself, she was attending a reception for newly admitted students that included a large number of Asian Americans. An admissions officer observed privately that although thousands of second-generation Asian Americans have graduated from Harvard in the last 40 years, very few have become CEOs or attained other top leadership posts in corporate America.

“Is there a so-called bamboo ceiling, an invisible but powerful barrier that halts their progress at a certain point?” Chin wondered. She wrote Stuck in an effort to find out .

Chin says Asian Americans are underrepresented in executive suites despite census data showing they have the highest levels of education and highest average incomes of any U.S. racial group. Their absence from top jobs is true not only in law and finance, where Asian Americans remain a minority but also in fields like technology. Asian Americans outnumber whites in Silicon Valley but hold only a third the number of executive jobs in that field that whites hold.

Read more: https://sum.cuny.edu/why-asian-americans-have-trouble-climbing-the-corporate-ladder-bamboo-ceiling/