I used to teach Benito Cereno, by Herman Melville, in a graduate course on the making of race in the US. Read the following for an Emperor's New Clothes calling out of the racism that underlies many criticisms of President Obama:
"Obama, Melville and the Tea Party"
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
What Does Our Prison Population Say About US/U.S.?
According to this NYT opinion piece, John Dewey once said, “[T]he best way to judge a culture is to see what kind of people are in the jails.”
What does our prison population say about US?
Analyzing the prison industrial complex through political theory.
And what's a racial democracy anyway?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/is-the-united-states-a-racial-democracy/
What does our prison population say about US?
Analyzing the prison industrial complex through political theory.
And what's a racial democracy anyway?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/is-the-united-states-a-racial-democracy/
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