Sunday Reading

/kaw·re?d?/:

• Negritude and Pan-Africanism 
• "Negro privilege had to be circumspect: impeccable but not arrogant"
• "searching for the carmathians, bahrain's 10th century vegetarian communists"
• Anthropologists Discover Texas Has Been Dumping the Bodies of Migrants Into Mass Graves
• The bell hooks phone line bothers me
• "whiteness is always there...even when it’s not there.”
•  The Colonialism That is Settled and the Colonialism That Never Happened

Bint Battuta:

• Jew or Judean? Translating the Greek term ioudaios
• Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World [intro]
• 1877 Karamanli Turkish map of the United States
• The Yerevan suburb called Bangladesh
• The Armenian church in Dhaka
• From Elephants to Tea: The Nilgiris Under Colonial Rule
• The Kuwait Cat’s Meat Crisis of 1937
• Misrepresentations of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
• Reading Ottoman court registers (part two)
• Medical History of British India
• The History of the Pocket Knife
• The Book Inscriptions Project
• Esa-Pekka Salonen on the role of the conductor
• A wrestling commentator who draws crowds
• "I read Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at a stage of my life I will politely refer to as Colonised Mind v. 1.0"
• Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
• "Even the less affluent Gulf citizens cannot live without a migrant worker"
• "I have been trying to get a Filipina maid for months"

Frank Pasquale:

• Addicted to Facebook, primed for conditioning to "more time on machine."
• The library of secret law is repugnant.
• 87% of Democrats & 84% of Republicans are in favor of lowering student loan interest rate.
• Debt and methodology.
• Barclays' flash boys.
• Advocacy journalism: "fund investigative business stories + then short stocks before publishing.”
• Reparations wake-up call.
• Google Bee, your little friend.

Kerim Friedman:

• Whey Too Much: Greek Yogurt's Dark Side
• What Explains the Remarkable Rise of Greek Yogurt?
• Destroying files on Modi's orders: Have we lost parts of Indian history forever?
• Race and the Medieval Language of Class
• Robert Gardner, 1925 – 2014
• Two Aboriginal groups gain recognition
• The Administrative Origins of Modern Civil Liberties Law
• Supreme Court's Tsilhqot'in First Nation ruling a game-changer for all
• Why Are Huge Numbers of Disabled Students Dropping Out of College?
• Child refugees can be dogged by poor health for life
• The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before
• What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan
• The Devastating, Lifelong Consequences of Student Debt It's threatening fundamentally American ways of life
• Why Anthropologists Must Boycott: Israeli Attacks on Academic Freedom
• The Management Myth
• The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

Jacob Remes:

• A Scottish independence referendum primer
• A taxonomy of Orthodox Judaism
• An unpunished epidemic of police perjury
• A statistically normal flurry of earthquakes

Reclaim UC:

• UC to funnel public money to risky startups
• As flies to wanton boys: on the Facebook/UCSF/Cornell study
• Gentrification and the Oakland Unified School District
• That big study about how the student debt crisis is in your head? It's garbage
• The devastating, lifelong consequences of student debt
• The college-cost denial industry
• A better professional organization
• Great Books and the white male "universal"
• "[T]he University actually has a vested interest in weaning itself from the state."
• Five years after the financial meltdown: the state of the US economy and college grads
• Austerity and higher education in the UK
• "Hillary Clinton will collect a $225,000 speaking fee from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in October…The massive expense was confirmed just weeks after the university formalized a 4 per cent tuition increase for each of the next four years."
• No need to choose: history from above, history from below

Kitabet:

• “Your army came to my country and destroyed it. And you don’t even say you’re sorry.”
• Embedded Poetry: Iraq Through a Soldier’s Binoculars
• Ironies of Laboratory Work During Ghana’s Second Age of Optimism
• “In truth, there are any number of possible outcomes of a large Bay Area earthquake, an endless series of if-then scenarios.”
• The Wells of Memory
• Why ‘Game of Thrones’ Isn’t Medieval 
• Forensic anthropology in the mass graves of the South Texas border
• The Autocrat’s Guide to World Cup Qualification
• “You win and move on. Or you lose and move on. Either way, we’re moving. I’m moving toward your joy.”
• David Stoliar, the sole survivor of the 1942 Struma disaster
• On The Endangered Art of Ethnography
• Designing a Deca-millennium Warning System (for nuclear waste)
• “The sport of finch-keeping for cafe contests, where birds are ranked on the quality and quantity of their melodies, has its roots in Istanbul's multi-ethnic past.”
• The Universal Texture (beautiful errors in Google Earth)

Jacqui Shine:

• Dan Kois stood for a month so we wouldn't have to
• Adventures with Grandpa Truman
• Jenny Diski on cop shows
• "Bambi’s mother, shot. Nemo’s mother, eaten by a barracuda. Lilo’s mother, killed in a car crash."
• Bartleby the babysitter!
• Jury nullification, from Life of the Law
• Oh, the University of Chicago Police Department is one the largest private security forces in the country! How reassuring!
• Intelligence recruitment on college campuses
• Early American mansplaining, observed

Nathan Deuel:

• He would have been 8..there have been mass demonstrations, a coup, 10s of thousands arrested, more than 2,000 killed
• “Is it true that drinking alcohol prevents Ebola? Is it true that Ebola is a curse?”
• "We dig for buried treasure," said one full time excavators, as she used a dental pick to uncover a mouse's bone.
• The stench of blue cheese and dead bodies
• "His closest competitor, a 93-year-old California man, delivered the news only once a week.”
• Is this the end of the High Heel in Lebanon?
• "I'm 30 years old. I've overdosed four times...I want to be clean. I really do.”
• The mass turned out to be the forgotten surgical sponge.
• "The turtles are not going to survive..If I'm a turtle, how am I going to get out of there and cross the street?"