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Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
Hannah drove a battered black Toyota that had been pulled apart and put back together so many times it constituted a philosophical conundrum.
M. L. Rio • Graveyard Shift: A Novella
reflected back at us in our institutions and social relationships.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.
Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams
Literature, she argued, “is built on tenderness toward any being other than ourselves.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, the book for which Arendt is best remembered.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Who writes the books and articles I’m using to help inform my opinions?
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
Not naming the groups that face barriers only serves those who already have access; the assumption is that the access enjoyed by the controlling group is universal.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Their impact is also disproportionately large on the world.