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While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet
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The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.
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how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
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1. Donna Haraway, “A cyborg manifesto”, 1985
2. Audre Lorde, “The uses of the erotic: the erotic as power”, 1978
3. Susan Sontag, “The double standard of aging”, 1972
4. David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram Television and U.S. Fiction”
5. Joan Didion, “On self-respect, 1961
6. Toni Morrison, “The site of memory”, 1987
7. Zadie Smith, “Joy”, 2013
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
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The death of the public intellectual
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(It’s arguable that we could understand the institution of celebrity itself as similarly suspicious: despite the prevailing liberalism of Hollywood, the values of celebrity—visibility, performance, aspiration, extreme physical beauty—promote an approach to womanhood that relies on individual exceptionalism in an inherently conservative way.)