Reflections on Norming in the Neoliberal Global University: A Conversation with Rey Chow
Thinking identity politics, Marxism, and the neoliberal university together, Rey Chow reflects on her new book.
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Distant Reading After Moretti
It is not a coincidence that distant reading does not deal well with gender, sexuality, or race. But if we re-commit ourselves to the project of exposing and interrogating power, we arrive potentially at a form of distant reading that is much more inclusive.
On the spectrum, p.p.
How the autism spectrum in the popular imagination overlaps with and feeds a particular feature of European-American whiteness: the bias toward independence and self-sufficiency.
About That Bass
The mainstream popularity of black culture today does not erase centuries of racial violence and oppression.
Nigeria beyond Bombs and Ebola
Drilling beneath recent headlines of violence and terrorism in Nigeria, one finds a country bursting with energy, life, and hospitality.
Harry Reid's Remarks About Race, or Much Ado About Nothing
Advance publicity for Game Change, the new book by John Heileman and Mark Halperin about the 2008 presidential race, brought with it a furor about some reportedly "outrageous" racial remarks Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently made about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Race and Narrative Theory in “Postrace” American Fiction
A whole new generation of minority writers has come to prominence whose work signals a radical turn to a "postrace" era in American literature.