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What is the underlying explanation for human social organization in each piece? How does the social position of the scholar inform the analysis that is advanced?
How are these pieces in conversation with each other? What assumptions do they hold in common, and where do they diverge?
Most of these pieces were written more than 100 years ago, yet the social problems that they address—racial and gendered inequality and violence, in particular—persist. How are the arguments presented here relevant to how we understand inequality and movements for social change today?