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Articles for Du Bois

Visionary director Yuval Sharon isn’t trying to cancel old opera. His latest fantastical piece transcends the genre
6 months, 1 week ago

Visionary director Yuval Sharon isn’t trying to cancel old opera. His latest fantastical piece transcends the genre

LA Times  

What do 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi and 20th century writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Director Yuval Sharon, left, and countertenor and co-producer Anthony Roth Costanzo rehearse a scene from the Industry’s “The Comet / Poppea” in New York at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. I want the whole apparatus of opera to help us imagine alternatives.” “The Comet …

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Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy

Al Jazeera  

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the noted postcolonial scholar and global public intellectual, is perhaps best known for her piece, “Can the subaltern speak?,” in which she claims that elite systems of knowledge filter out subaltern voices so that even when the subaltern does speak, it’s not heard. Spivak’s May 21 lecture on Du Bois’s “vision of democracy” was aimed at underlining …

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Column | Pronouncing privilege
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Column | Pronouncing privilege

The Hindu  

An obsession with correcting other people’s pronunciation, especially words of foreign origin, is a favourite hunting game of a certain kind of Indian. The usual vibrations that this produces became a loud buzz recently when renowned academic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and a student at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University engaged in a stand-off over the name of American sociologist W.E.B. Check …

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JNU student did not identify himself as Dalit: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on row over seminar
7 months ago

JNU student did not identify himself as Dalit: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on row over seminar

The Hindu  

Disclaimer: In order to enable a free-wheeling conversation on the subject, the interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was carried out with the understanding that she would get to approve the direct quotes that would be published. This led to other audience members breaking out in giggles, many who attended the talk said, adding that Ms. Spivak might have also had …

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William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died
8 months ago

William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died

Associated Press  

BOSTON — William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter of the Black Power movement who worked with Malcolm X and other prominent leaders in the 1960s, has died. “His contention was that civil rights wasn’t a sufficient framework for challenging the systems that were behind the oppression of Black communities throughout the diaspora.” Strickland joined the Boston chapter …

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What to America is John Brown?
1 year ago

What to America is John Brown?

Salon  

On December 2, 1859, the United States saw its first execution of a prisoner convicted of treason: a white man who challenged slavery. Brown, who was hanged in 1859 by the Commonwealth of Virginia for raiding a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, VA, aiming to support enslaved people’s escape to freedom, had also clashed with pro-slavery groups during the battles …

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Strikes on campus: A chance to take back college from the corporations
1 year, 8 months ago

Strikes on campus: A chance to take back college from the corporations

Salon  

Here are some of the senior administrators I did not see joining us on the picket lines set up by striking teachers and staff at Rutgers University. "Even as Rutgers athletics continued to rack up annual operating deficits of $73 million — covered in part by taxpayers and student tuition revenue — athletics showed little restraint as it dropped millions …

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Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key
1 year, 11 months ago

Want to understand the U.S.? This historian says the South holds the key

NPR  

Want to understand the U.S.? She's a professor of African American studies at Princeton and author of the new book "South To America: A Journey Below The Mason-Dixon Line To Understand The Soul Of A Nation." And it's interesting that you write that - you know, people talk about the Great Migration as being a movement of African Americans from …

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Why the book bans and censorship? Those who rule want to crush knowledge — and freedom
2 years, 2 months ago

Why the book bans and censorship? Those who rule want to crush knowledge — and freedom

Salon  

August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. Ellen Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy era's widespread purge of the U.S. education system, calls these gag bills "worse than McCarthyism." Schrecker, author of "No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities," "Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America" and "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the …

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My White Teacher Used A POC Pen Name To Sell Her Book. Should I Have Outed Her?
3 years, 1 month ago

My White Teacher Used A POC Pen Name To Sell Her Book. Should I Have Outed Her?

Huff Post  

The author hiking Monument Mountain in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, during the pandemic while BLM protests were going on around the world. Another email from her arrived in the morning, with “apologies for any pain caused” and letting me know she didn’t “condone the actions of the publisher/editors and own cluelessness.” See, she was sorry. Courtesy of G. Delano Burrowes Three …

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