Sunday Reading

 

ReclaimUC:

• UC Berkeley set to pull the plug on the Emma Goldman archive
• Union democracy, student labor, and the fight for public education
• Poor kids who do everything right don't do better than rich kids who do everything wrong
• The resurgence of the public education nation
• Organizing against empire: struggles over the militarization of CUNY
• Living wages and college campuses
• "[E]xpanded black participation in what higher education and to what ends?"
• On the BDS blacklist
• The neoliberal marshmallow and the corporate reform of education
• Where are we, as activists, when we are on campus?
• Full run of SNCC publication "The Student Voice" (1960-1965)
• Academics from 500 universities and 60 countries sign open letter condemning the disappearance of 43 Mexican students by police
• Paul Farmer on the ebola epidemic in Liberia

Jacqui Shine:

• A black cosmetic company sells, or sells out?
• The Beggars of Lakewood
• "I have always seen myself on the periphery of Harvard, on the edge, which turns out to be a wonderful perch actually."
• Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once
• Newly discovered 1913 silent film with a black cast to screen at MoMA
• Hudson University
• "I felt a sharp tang well up in me—a feeling that I would later come to understand as inconsolable grief, but at the time it was like tasting something entirely new, a flavor I did not know existed."
• Among the Young and Privileged in North Korea
• Raymond Chandler's L.A.
• The weirdo who invented margarine 
• "If I had been at Harvard I never would have written GOOD WIVES. I wouldn’t have been a pioneer in women’s history, I’m quite sure of that."
• Your Beyoncé pumpkin-carving instructions [self-aggrandizement within]
• The latest from the prison industrial complex, pure profit division
• When tech was "women's work"
• Martha Jones on geographies of feeling and identity in North Carolina

Nathan Deuel:

• "Pratt’s cross-country trip was made possible through a little-known California law." 
• “I’ve had sources come up to the drive-thru..Some think I’m working on an investigative project.” 
• "He added that no Republican had ever set foot in the place, at least to their knowledge." 
• "She stopped off at a KFC near a train station by her home, but ended up staying for a whole week." 
• “I get really affected by bestiality with children..I have to stop for a moment..maybe go to Starbucks.” 
• "The trees should be in full bloom, just in time for the Beirut Bombing anniversary..Instead, most of them are dead."
• "The city's new budget includes $25,000 to buy one-way bus tickets for homeless people." 
• "Hawaii even passed a measure that offers paid flights off the state to homeless people." 
• “Mom I’ve got some news about your past.” Her reaction was..equal parts embarrassment—he was her son, after all—and pride.
• "The Awali River came back to life overnight, becoming the perfect place for ducks to have a swim." 
• “Craigslist, eBay, they’re opportunities for sales..They’re also opportunities to let unwanted people into your life." 
• “I used to ride the trains to Syria and back, just for fun. I would sit on top of the carriage.” 
• “We drank many cocktails, and I said I wish I knew what would become of us. They laughed..I read a book.”

Bint Battuta:

• Turkish Britons & Ottoman Turks in England During the 18th Century
• The History & Music of the Spanish & Portuguese Jewish Congregation in the City of London
• London's Satmar Hasidic community (& a Hasidic drug dealer)
• French vs. Judeo-Spanish: Alliance Israelite Universelle in the Ottoman Empire
• Arab Jewish identity (and food)
• "Representations of black & Indian masculinity within the British West Indian territories disrupted the martial race discourses of empire"
• Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative
• A profile of Che Guevara by Christopher Hitchens
• Exploring the medieval Indian Ocean world through the copper plates from Kollam
• Goa's São Brás church, remnant of a 16th-century Croatian colony (perhaps)
• Hindustani Classical Music Before Respectability Took Over
• How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it
• The North American Indian Restaurant Menu: The Triumph of Inauthenticity
• Diwali in New Zealand: Multiculturalism or Orientalism?
• A History of the American Community School at Beirut
• The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone
• Power & music in Cairo: Azbakiyya
• Ibn Taymiyya on the Conditions & Permissibility of Praying behind "Heterodox" Muslims
• The Anxiety of Influence: Framing the Blue Quran
• Charlotte Hempel on studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Archiving Palestine & the Palestinians
• Islamic Seals Database
• Qatar Digital Library
• The history of typeface names

Kitabet:

• “an experimental installation that allows visitors to experience the world’s constant, pulsating seismic activity”
• Mourning, Survival, and Time: Writing Through Crisis
• The An?t Kabirs that Weren’t
• “illegally entering the highly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, or “Dead Zone”—for fun”
• Black Pepper, Red Pepper: India and the First World War
• The Accidental Revelations of the Sanborn Maps
• “Hatay -- a Turkish province on the border with Syria that is now flooded with Syrian refugees -- has a special status in Turkey.”
• An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn
• On the Occasion of The Saturday Mothers’ 500th Vigil for the Disappeared
• “Aleppo is thousands of stories and this is just a single line in your article” 
• Debt and Obligation in Contemporary Ramallah
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, interviewed
• “A photograph is an epitaph made of light.”

Kerim Friedman:

• ‘Broken Windows’ and the New York Police
• How English beat German as language of science
• "the taste of love and revolution"
• Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale
• Annie Lennox Whitewashes Explanation of "Strange Fruit"
• Forty percent of mass shootings start with the gunman targeting his wife, girlfriend, or ex.
• America's perpetual state of emergency
• Sex and Censorship During the Occupation of Japan
• The surprising origin story of Wonder Bread.
• Death is Iconic
• The "Southern Belle" Is a Racist Fiction
• Building a Better Panopticon: "The Wire" as melodrama
• Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man
• Why Government Spends More Per Pupil at Elite Private Universities Than at Public Universities
• 8 must-watch films to understand India's indigenous people

 

Jacob Remes:

• "To be Muslim in Canada is to traverse in mixed signals and to live hyperaware of the existence of two Canadas: one that celebrates you, and one that isn’t so sure you should be here."
• Leon Czolgosz, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Michael Zehaf-Bibeau
• Japan's coming secrecy regime
• Should the UN be immune from any accountability mechanisms?
• “Whether you are a factory worker or a graduate student, you have a right to organize ... and to bargain and have a say in your wages and your salary and your working conditions.”
• "San Francisco’s startup culture has thrived on monetizing commodities that were once free."
• The "Death of Klinghoffer" controversy