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Analyst or Moralist?
quillette.comLetting us pick our own experts as a society leaves us listening to the loudest voice, not the most correct or beneficial.
Alex Morris • 3_TRENDS_Vol.12: Alex Morris: Assisted Socializing, Memory Management + Professional Amateurs
Being a Black American requires double consciousness, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, the habit of seeing from inside the logic of race and the lives of the racialized, and from the external superego of what it means to be American, with all its archetypes and interests.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
here was a case in which the issue not exactly of race but of an increasingly visible underclass could be confronted by the middle class, both white and black, without guilt.
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
The old high-low spectrum was policed by people who shared identity markers, experiences, and educational backgrounds, so it reflects their prejudices.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
Susan Sontag
Michael Dean • 2 cards