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The Body in Space/Trauma in the Body

A Review of Roxane Gay’s ‘Hunger’

August 17, 2017 • by Lynne Peskoe-Yang

Roxane Gay’s first book-length memoir, Hunger, is about space: the space that certain bodies are allowed to occupy, and the world’s response when they are unable or unwilling to fit inside it. In tender, explosive prose, Gay writes of the systemic medical dismissal and the social and sexual ostracism that ...

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Loss Beyond Destruction

Charlottesville reveals the failures of loss

August 17, 2017 • by Jared Loggins

“Get out, get out,” the person screams, the space in between the bangs growing closer and closer together as the warning continued. The apartment building is on fire. My brother, my parents, and I are all home and luckily we are able to hear the warning. We gather some essential possessions ...

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White Identity and Terror in America

Thinking about the Events of Charlottesville

August 16, 2017 • by Melvin L. Rogers

This is a very dangerous moment. For so long, those on the left have been criticized by the right for talking and speaking in the language of identity. And yet identity talk has typically been deployed by the left to highlight those that have been excluded, marginalized, and dominated. It ...

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Charlottesville and Trump

David Duke Explains Neo-Nazi Violence to You

August 12, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

There is fire and fury today on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. Neo-nazis and white supremacists, some bearing guns, are violently protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee and attacking anti-racist counter-protestors. David Duke has declared that this is the fulfillment of President Trump’s vision for America. “We are determined ...

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Three Values of Anger

Chapter Five from ‘Sing the Rage’ by Sonali Chakravarti

August 9, 2017 • by Sonali Chakravarti

—Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider Anger, like other emotions, is closely related to a cluster of affective predispositions, including resentment, sadness, and frustration. Insisting on a narrow definition of anger misses the way these emotions often overlap; conversely a broad interpretation of the emotions, writ large, lacks analytical specificity. Cutting through these ...

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Scandals in Higher Education

Race, Class and the Struggle Over Diminishing Resources

August 3, 2017 • by Claire Potter

As those of us who are college and university teachers gear up for the fall semester, our profession is briefly back in the news with a high focus on the heartbreak of college admissions. Let's start with genuine heartbreak. Last Saturday, we learned that UC Irvine had rescinded acceptances for almost 500 ...

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Why Engage Public Anger

A reply to Chakravarti’s Introduction to ‘Sing the Rage’

August 1, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

“Sing the Rage” is a bold title for a bold book. It is no small provocation to thus entitle a book that argues for a more robust engagement with anger in public life in today’s democratic societies. The title is a further challenge for readers who recall the proem[1] to ...

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Black Bachelorette, White Mask

The Patterns of Subjugation and Oppression in Reality TV

July 28, 2017 • by Liz Scheer

There is no more popular culture, only ways of seeing populations as nothing. -- Nina Power, Thirty-one Theses on the Problem of the Public Like many faithful members of Bachelor Nation, I have long watched my favorite television show, The Bachelorette, with a healthy dose of irony. The sheer premise -- thirty-five ...

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Sing the Rage

Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

July 27, 2017 • by Sonali Chakravarti

The words of Godfrey Xolile Yona, who appeared before the TRC in October 1996, exemplify the type of testimony that is the catalyst for my thinking about the significance of anger in testimony after mass violence and its relationship to restorative justice. Detained for his involvement with the anti-apartheid organization ...

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The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro

A speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852

July 4, 2017 • by Frederick Douglass

On July 5, 1852, abolitionist and self-emancipated slave Frederick Douglass delivered a critique of the Constitution of the United States to the nineteen members of Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York and their guests. In this address, Douglass argued that the values of the Constitution existed in contradiction to the condition ...

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Radical Skin/Moderate Masks

Yassir Morsi

June 13, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Pre-book launch event with Australia-based race critical scholar, Yassir Morsi in discussion with Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming.' Co-hosted by the Zolberg Institute for Migration Studies and the Department Sociology at The New School. The event also launched the Rowman and Littlefield International Book Series, Challenging Migration Studies (edited ...

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Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part Two)

June 12, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this second part of further reflections on misrepresentation and misrecognition building on posts from earlier this year, I explore this rhetorical practice with reference to the current debate concerning the removal of statues of and to “Confederate heroes.” These debates have centered on the removal of four statues in ...