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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 ......
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 ......
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…...
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....
When You Forget to Whistle Vivaldi | tressiemc
When You Forget to Whistle Vivaldi | tressiemc
When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland | tressiemc
When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland | tr...
“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...
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Between the World and Me Book Club: Two ......
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks...
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks....
Federal Financial Aid Is Now a Middle-Class Entitlement - NYTimes ...
Federal Financial Aid Is Now a Middle-Class Entitle...
Why Do Poor People 'Waste' Money On Luxury Goods?
Why Do Poor People 'Waste' Money On Luxury Goods?
My Feminism Starts 300 Years Ago - COLORLINES
My Feminism Starts 300 Years Ago - COLORLINES
No, college isn't the answer. Reparations are. - The Washington Post
No, college isn't the answer. Reparations are. - Th...
The University and the Company Man | Dissent Magazine
The University and the Company Man | Dissent Magazi...