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In virtually every competitive professional school in this country, one will find a critical mass of Morehouse and Spelman graduates; the same is true of investment banks, corporate law firms, and doctoral programs. Even if students are only in Atlanta for four years, the sheen of that place, the discipline, doesn’t rub off. And it does strike a
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Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
“So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth?”
— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
something “crushing” became clear. Of those five thousand submissions, fewer than 15 percent were from women and fewer than 5 percent were from people of color. Brittany, who is African American, says with a sigh, “You didn’t have to go through a gatekeeper. We thought if the contest was open to everybody, then everybody would apply.” Everybody did
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Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture
Smithsonian Magazinesmithsonianmag.comProfile subjects have to be thoroughly vetted to ensure not only that they won’t bore people to death, but, in the case of microcosm profiles, that they represent what the reporter needs them to represent.
William E. Blundell • The Art and Craft of Feature Writing
Ultimately, “research justice” amounts to judging scholarly productions not by their rigor or quality but by the identity of their producer and privileging those understood by postcolonial theory as marginalized as long as they are advocating knowledge production methods and conclusions that conform to those of postcolonial theory.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
‘Disappointing. For all their talk of rights and dignity.’ ‘I think those principles only apply to those they find human.’