My name is Marty Schoenhals and I am the founder of NYC Men for Social Justice, work I happily do as a volunteer. I earned a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology in 1991. I am a senior professor who studies contemporary Chinese culture in all its aspects, and I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese and its southwest China variants. I first spent a year in China in 1988-89 during the student democracy movement that ended with the killing of over 1000 peaceful protestors in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. My work on Chinese culture and education was published by M.E. Sharpe and is entitled, The Paradox of Power in a People’s Republic of China Middle School.
I have taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore College, among other institutions, and among my invited lectures is one to the faculty in Chinese Studies at Harvard University. In 2015 I was the Project Manager for an anti-hate project at the United Nations; my duties even included writing several speeches for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
I have been a strong advocate for social justice, beginning with work in the 1990’s as a salaried gay activist at the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force. I took my UN work–which awarded money to youth worldwide for projects to challenge sexism, homophobia and racism–and turned that work into an anti-hate class that I have taught for seven years.
I am the author of several books, including one on race, Intimate Exclusion: Race and Caste Turned Inside Out, and my most recent book sketching out concrete ideas for a better and more egalitarian society, Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined. I have lived in Brooklyn since 2007.
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