Category Archives: Books and scholarship

Who is Walter Rodney?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by jonneke

Who is Walter Rodney? Via Nate H.

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PEOPLE: “We all deserve the same rights as our peers to be educated.”

Posted on September 14, 2011 by jonneke

WI State Journal reports: UW senior Althea Miller weeps as she gives an impassioned statement to students on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. More than 100 people took over a press conference held by a conservative think tank to introduce a study … Continue reading →

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Plagiarism is bad…

Posted on March 1, 2011 by jonneke

….and can lead to this!

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bell hooks on being (perceived as) “angry”

Posted on January 24, 2011 by jonneke
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The death of universities

Posted on December 21, 2010 by jonneke

Academia has become a servant of the status quo. Its malaise runs so much deeper than tuition fees. By Terry Eagleton in The Guardian. “…What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. … Continue reading →

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Underground reading

Posted on December 19, 2010 by jonneke

From the NYT: One Sunday afternoon this holiday season, as the literary professionals were putting finishing touches on their year-end lists of best books, citizen critics were busy just reading. On a No. 6 train between Astor Place and 125th … Continue reading →

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Medicine and Social Justice

Posted on October 12, 2010 by jonneke

In my freshman human rights class, we just read Medicine and Social Justice by Paul Farmer.

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Arab American Institute Darfur ad

Posted on September 28, 2010 by jonneke

The Save Darfur campaign is very controversial among scholars of African Politics. While they do not deny the horrific violence in the region, imminent scholars like Mamdani raise important and critical question about the methods and analysis of the Save … Continue reading →

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