Africa39: We Have New Names
...have lost, whether it is language and culture, or land and nation. And their writing is an attempt to recover a lost known object. But the Africa39 writers do not...
Black Sun Rising
...with the racialist think tank American Renaissance, de Benoist says, “Europe, race, culture, and identity all have roles ... I am very interested in the future and destiny of my...
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...of Kenyan and African literature more broadly. Second, the historical. This text is very much of a particular moment in Kenyan literary culture, what I would characterize as the disillusionment...
Line Cooked
...hurt myself had always been very encouraging and supportive of my growth as a cook. The kitchen culture there was somewhat unconventional, even slightly democratic. And the whole restaurant staff...
Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You
...Mohaiemen ([email protected]) explores borders, wars, and belonging through essays and film. His essays include “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of hip-hop” (Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture,...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: The sanctuary campus movement and local points of resistance A call for sanctuary Beyond sanctuary cities/campuses: stop deportations by any means A map of sanctuary campuses "It is...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Students at UC Berkeley turn the tables on a racist professor 96 hours of action concludes with successful campus shut down Students seeking to redesignate restrooms as...
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...
Sunday Reading
...Alexandria villa facing demolition The difficulties faced by Pashtun singers ReclaimUC: "[T]he whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures" Dude, where's the race in your class analysis...
Sunday Reading
...Peer Review in the Age of Adjunctification “The soldiers had just left and my grandmother’s house looked battered and bruised.” Seamus Heaney’s Last Poem ReclaimUC: After the freeze: UC...
Quakes and Ale: Comparing Cultures in Catastrophe
...heartland, St. Louis has a ferociously autochthonous culture; nonnatives risk suffocation. Many St. Louisans never leave the metro area. So insular are they, in fact, that they couldn’t even be...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...out: Compliments between romantic partners frequently differ from compliments given to friends. The role and intent of compliments are always contextual, and nothing provides a broader context than culture. Intimate...
Little Big Eater Girl
...contest,” I say. “It’s for a Japanese TV show called the Big Eaters World Championships, and it’s the final round between Team America and Team Japan.” I know this because...
This Week in Art Crime
...reach the sign. Police are thought to have identified Urakawa from the video. Abraham earlier told his Facebook followers he was in Japan over the New Year’s holidays. Osaka police...
Cap and Trade
...temperature and rainfall and cracks in the forest and coordination between trees and fungi and supply chains coming out of Japan into Oregon. In the dominant ways of thinking about...
Sunday Reading
...in Gujarat schools Violence outside Paris synagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany This...