Sunday Reading

ReclaimUC:

• UC's new methodology for determining the cost of education is absurd
• Can UC answer these 5 big questions about its spending?
• No confidence in the University of Wisconsin system administrators
• The University of Wisconsin leadership's dangerous tuition game
• When civility is brown
• Education "experts" lack expertise
• "There is a for-profit wolf lurking in higher education."
• The history of the future of education
• Mexican teachers resist their own brand of education reform
• Counting the homeless
• 5 principles for the anti-police brutality movement
• Aerial photography of the labor dispute at the port of LA and Long Beach

Karen Gregory:

• Algorithmic States of Exception
• American Police Brutality, Exported from Chicago to Guantanamo
• Joe Chip's Problem Was Never His Door
• Even the Most Educated Workers Have Declining Wages
• The Gig Economy Won't Last
• The History of Future Education
• The Computer Ate my Homework
• Consider the Boolean
• College Faculties Have a Serious Diversity Problem
• A True Picture of Black Skin
• Wikipedia and the Oligarchy of Ignorance
• 10 Songs About Sunday (Reading)

Jacqui Shine, on David Carr:

• Me and My Girls
• All That You Leave Behind
• The Emperor Miramaximus
• The Fall and Rise of Media 
• Reddit AMA
• David Carr Has A Cold (Carr on Fresh Air)
• David Carr vs Some Guys From Vice (from Page One: Inside The New York Times)

Jacob Remes:

• Is UAW's minority unionism at VW the future of organized labor?
• Crises and restrictions on mobility
• The paleotempestology of New England
• "Having incarcerated women write the history of their own prisons is significant because we know the right questions to ask."
• First they came for Steven Salaita; then they came for Gene Nichol.
• The Canadian government dismantles Canadian Studies
  
• "if we turn in the direction we are now facing, toward recognition only through the rhetoric of sameness, we actually move further from inclusion and true equality."

Bint Battuta:

• Cosmopolitan Cursing in Late Nineteenth-Century Alexandria
• On Jewish linguistic history
• Infinite Reality: Reviving the Art of Turkish Miniatures
• The Elegant Plume: Ostrich Feathers, North African Commercial Networks and European Capitalism
• A short history of the samosa
• Britain's Nepali rock bands
• BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on the emperor Ashoka
• "Historically, Buddhism has been no more a religion of peace than Christianity"
• John Renard on his book Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader 
• Mozart in Turkey - Die Entführung aus dem Serail performed at Istanbul's Topkap? Palace

Kerim Friedman:

• Solomon, who lost his faith on the D train…
• Philosophy and the Art of Dying
• A True Picture of Black Skin
• One in 10 Academy members didn't see Selma
• Guantánamo torturer led brutal Chicago police regime of shackling and confession
• Precarious Europe Forced to be “Charlie”
• Did Bill O’Reilly Cover Up a War Crime in El Salvador?
• Swedish Funeral Candy
• America is great at getting college kids to work on the side
• NYT Hopes India Can Avoid a High-Paid, Well-Educated Workforce
• Afghanistan's Team of Rivals
• ISIS Islamic Credentials Spark Public Debate
• The Sly Capitalist Seduction Of "Fifty Shades Of Grey"
• Belief is a Practice

Kitabet:

• Yarmouk Miniatures
• “The practice of holding shoveled-out parking spots on snow covered streets is not a recent invention in northern American cities, neither is it universal, nor without contest.” [pdf]
• Muslim Parents and 'the Talk' in the Wake of the Chapel Hill Murders 
• Balkan Vampires Before Ottoman Courts
• “Sikander’s craft as a post-miniaturist is so central to her range that one cannot miss the haunting intensity of her lines and strokes.”
• In Memory of Özgecan Aslan: Sexual Violence and the Juridical System in Turkey
•  A True Picture of Black Skin
• “So much of copy editing is about not going beyond your province.”
• Escape Velocity; or, There Must Be 50 Ways to Queer the Family
• Cairo’s Metropolitan Landscape: Segregation Extreme
• “a movement is brewing among planners, activists and bureaucrats—some still in Aleppo, others in Damascus, Turkey, and Lebanon—to prepare, right now, for the reconstruction effort that will come whenever peace finally arrives”
• Judge Hanen’s Smackdown of Executive Action on Immigration
• Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls
• MB(ecket)TA