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Japanese American Historical Plaza

By Brandon ShimodaDecember 9, 2016
What did Japanese people give the state while interned?
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Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)

By Trevor PaglenDecember 8, 2016
Automated images don't just simply represent things—they actively intervene in everyday life.
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The Scapegoating Machine

By Geoff ShullenbergerNovember 30, 2016
Peter Thiel’s philosophical mentor explains Trump, Gawker, and social media
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Hillbilly Ethnography

By John ThomasonNovember 29, 2016
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of Trumpism
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Militain Us

By Remina GreenfieldNovember 28, 2016
Inside the bizarre world of the military-entertainment industry’s racialized gamification of war
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Fires of Resistance

By Jarrett MartineauNovember 24, 2016
Rage is the disavowed truth of what resistance tends toward
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Call Me Elena

By Miranda PopkeyNovember 23, 2016
Elena Ferrante's Frantumaglia has been marketed as non-fiction. Does it matter if it isn't?
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Gold Star, Brown Family

By Mayukh SenNovember 22, 2016
In a matter of six minutes, Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala became ideal fetish objects for a certain class of liberal-centrists in the Democratic Party
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Closing Statements

By Hannah BowlusNovember 21, 2016
Every final statement uttered by a doomed inmate in Texas performs a perpetual labor for the state.
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Syria’s Desaparecidos

By Budour HassanNovember 18, 2016
Finding others through mutual loss.
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Resisting Trump’s Islamophobic Promise for America

By Muna MireNovember 17, 2016
For many Muslim Americans, 9/11—and America’s complicity—has never ended
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Lose Your Kin

By Christina SharpeNovember 16, 2016
White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative
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The Gamble

By Charles DavisNovember 15, 2016
How leftists were blinded to Trump’s winning prospects
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Waking Up in Trump's America, Part 1

By TNINovember 12, 2016
The first in a series of reactions from TNI contributors and friends on waking up after 11/9
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Don't Be A Hero

By Owen DavisNovember 10, 2016
Jordan Flaherty's No More Heroes describes the harm committed by the modern-day do-gooder, but stops short of outlining systems of power that uphold the hero role
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Feral Memes

By Matt CornellNovember 8, 2016
The ISISCat is an LOLCat gone feral

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