Stories by Tressie McMillan Cottom : Contently

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I’m Not Your Black Friend, and I’m Not Your Racial Confessor

Last month, a woman tweeted her discomfort with a New Yorker comic saying, “I’d like to know what people of colour think, esp. @GeeDee215.” The specifi ......

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Issue No. 7 - Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

Tressie McMillan Cottom. Abstract: Populists and capitalists conceptualize academic public writing as a democratizing process. I argue that interlocking ......

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Masthead | Dissent Magazine

CO-EDITORS Michael Kazin • David Marcus EDITORS EMERITI Mitchell Cohen • Irving Howe (1920-1993) • Michael Walzer BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Mark Levinson ASSOCIATE EDITORS Kaavya Asoka • Colin Kinniburgh • Natasha Lewis EDITORS AT LARGE Tim Barker • Sarah Leonard …Continue Reading…...

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Why Free College Is Necessary | Dissent Magazine

Higher education can't solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse....

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When You Forget to Whistle Vivaldi | tressiemc

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When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland | tressiemc

When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland | tr...

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“Who Do You Think You Are?”: When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity - Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

Share Article Abstract: Populists and capitalists conceptualize academic public writing as a democratizing process. I argue that interlocking structures of oppression contour neoliberal academic appeals for public scholarship. Using data from a public academic blog, I conceptualize the attention economy as stratified by attenuated status groups. I also discuss the...