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Peggy’s Social Consciousness: Corporate Culture and Counterculture

September 22, 2010
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Peggy’s Social Consciousness:  Corporate Culture and Counterculture

An intersection of civil rights and women’s rights is woven through this episode about women’s voices.
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In Defense of the Strategic Marginalization of Blackness within Mad Men

September 14, 2010
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In Defense of the Strategic Marginalization of Blackness within Mad Men

Is the exclusion of blackness on Mad Men an oversight, a strategic choice, or a reflection of the continuing privilege of whiteness?
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“You’re Not Going to Kill This Account”: Mad Men, Racial Prejudice, and History

August 24, 2010
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“You’re Not Going to Kill This Account”: Mad Men, Racial Prejudice, and History

Mad Men begs the question of how the 1960s embodied by our characters informs the present world that we now inhabit. What would it mean if we are the inheritors not of only the brave triumphs of the Freedom Riders, but also of the indifference or disinterest of people who felt unaffected by them?
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