"This is a study about quiescence and rebellion in a situation of glaring inequality. Why, in a social relationship involving the domination of a non-elite by an elite, does challenge to that domination not occur?... Under what conditions and against what obstacles does rebellion begin to emerge?"
Jul 6, 2024
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my man olufemi reads the social, intellectual, and economic elite for filth in this treatise on how identity politics (originally conceptualized as a means of bringing marginalized people together to organize and resist authoritarian hegemony) has been co-opted by said authoritarian hegemony to render marginalized people powerless and misdirect conversations we have about resistance to center "marginalized" elites as representatives resulting in a whole lot of talk and pretty much no action (as well as some historical alternatives)
should be required readings for undergrads, twitter posters, "dinner with jay-z" proponents, and pretty much anyone who has ever asked "what the fuck is going on and why"
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Critical commentary on institutional power. Have any recs in similar vein?
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i was stupidly lucky in my last year of college to have taken a seminar that covered four of baldwin's major essay collections: notes of a native son (1955), nobody knows my name (1961), the fire next time (1963), and no name in the street (1972), all available in the volume of his collected essays edited by toni morrison.
maybe this is overly sentimental, but i think baldwin taught me what it means to be an honest person and a good writer, the two great aspirations he adopts in his first book. he also taught me what it means to be a compassionate but unsparing social and political critic of american modernity.
reading baldwin was the first time i've ever felt truly at home in a text. few other works have affected me like his.
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very late, but have been obsessing for the past few weeks. pastel blue ford bronco now the most iconic car of the year
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