So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons
Sunday Reading
...Jackson The Irony of MLK Day 2013: A Renewed Invitation into White Supremacy Carceral feminism and the war on sex workers Columnism, complicity and crisis 5 Things I Learned About...
TNI Vol. 15 Editorial Note: The National Conversation
...generally. — Barack Obama, official response to White House petitions to legalize marijuana If the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least...
Summer Heat
...children as older and as less innocent than their white peers. The research confirms what most of us already know: Black children are considered to be disposable and dangerous mini-adults....
Sunday Reading
...public/private worlds Interlopers on social media: Feminism, women of color, and oppression "Misogofeminists" and the white men who profit from silencing critiques Know yer Nazis, Ukraine edition The rise of...
Bugs
...severe mental disorders, and the ways young people of color experience these disorders with the added burden of diverging from the face of these illnesses, the young white woman. The...
Not for You
...Fox, make the rest. The distinction between indie and “major” filmmaking can no longer be made on aesthetic grounds either. Though indies might choose to appear grainy, black and white,...
Ill-Starred Lives
...delight onlookers. Ladies marveled at the delicacy with which the pachyderms' trunks probed for the morsels of white bread they'd bring them. Men stood thunderstruck by their great size. Children...
Sunday Reading
...not Why America's MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship Ghosts of white people past: witnessing white flight from an Asian ethnoburb How cuts to public universities has driven students out of...
The Devengers, Part Three
This is a story about the telos of our current wave of megablockbuster superhero films and shows, beginning roughly with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2007 and The Dark Knight in 2008, which endowed the genre with broad critical respectability, public embrace, limitless bankrolls, a persistent universe, and a viable playbook for adapting second-string intellectual
History Made Queasy
...River. On returning home to the White House he capped his afternoon by drinking a few quarts of water. Some few hours later Taylor complained he felt unwell. His stomach...
Contemporary Scottish Friction
...they going to vote next year? The crowd answered as one. “YES!” Ten-thousand of them at least, maybe twice that. Dressed in blue and white, flag waving, face painted. Drunk...
Carceral Educations
...effect as a giant, flaming red A on their chest. Copious research shows that even black men without a criminal record are employed at a lower rate than white men...
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...BART and there's a man in front of me, big, white, mustached, glasses, raher cruel-and-solid-looking, kind of military and I'm turned on by him, want to be used and humiliated...
Sunday Reading
...Quantum Blackness Early Black Writers, Speculative Fiction, and Confronting Racial Terror Watching And Reading About White People Having Sex Is My Escape Tolkien's English Mythology Native People Respond to Rowling...
The New Kid
...Cassius’s, his sensitivity and his race (he is black in a mostly white town) leaves him in a precarious and alienated position. The Michigan landscape is recognizable—an anywhere American town...