Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman:

• Confidence Men and "Prison Reform"
• Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
• Wonder Woman: The Weird, True Story
• L.A.'s Idea of Taiwanese Food vs. What Taiwanese People Really Eat
• Cynics, Step Aside: There is Genuine Excitement Over a Hillary Clinton Candidacy
• The history of inequality
• The Bizarre Fight Over a Scientist’s Sexy Lady Shirt
• Anthropology: It’s still white public space–An interview with Karen Brodkin
• My Hacker, My Source, My Snitch
• Return of the Colonial Mind
• Short skirts and niqab bans: On sexuality and the secular body
• Beyond the Indictments: Black and Brown Deaths at the Hands of Police Are a Crisis Boiling Over
• Blowback: Academic boycott of Israel gives voice to peaceful protest
• List of fictional anthropologists
• 'Re-education' campaigns teach China's new ghost city-dwellers how to behave

ReclaimUC:

• The state funding sleight-of-hand
• Unionizing solidarity with Palestine
• Ask not what your country can do for you but what Coursera can do for your country
• The post-welfare state university
• College athletes of the world, unite!
• Running a school on $160 in Philadelphia
• Columbia University fines student activists for "Carry that Weight" day of action
• Why does a campus police department have jurisdiction over 65,000 Chicago residents?
• Lower education: how a disgraced college chain trapped its students in poverty
• In defense of the Syracuse University sit-in
• UK universities begin bond-financing construction projects
• California, the carceral state
• Salaita at UCLA on indigeneity, Palestine, and the demands of civility 

Jacqui Shine:

• The original Stephen Glass takedown (1998)
• Patsy Sims on Edgar Ray Killen
• Black girls don't read Sylvia Plath
• "Did you ever mind it?": Nicole Callahan on transracial adoption
• What it takes to master The Knowledge
• "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America" (1990)

Nathan Deuel:

• “Nothing ever happens on this street..And now something amazing just happened.”
• "May Fiona live on winking in that URL forever."
• Soldier shot dead the night of his home-coming party from Afghanistan had never actually left the country.
• "It had showers, air-conditioning, WiFi. He found fresh fruit. A disco. People were dancing. Touching."
• "You don't see a lot of people survive a fall from 200 feet."
• Mom Believes Ghost Of US Marine Who Died In 1983 Beirut Bombing Lives Inside 4-Year-Old Son
• “Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special."
• "Ensuring that your children grow up in such a loving, supportive environment is as easy as dying."
• "He hung himself out there about 3 weeks ago and nobody saw it until the cable repair guy went to use the restroom"
• "Women are apparently still a bit too exotic for the intrepid men."
• "Santana told police that he bought the animal for $200 at a gas station."

Jacob Remes:

• Men get all the good jobs in Japan Studies.  All of them,
• "The constant devaluation of art has been a huge boon for large corporations."
• Narration in public radio
• "There was never going to be a happy ending, but that doesn't make this ending any less shameful."
• Militarism, the arms industry, and Veterans/Remembrance Day