Across fifty years of books and no matter the specific subject—from her coauthored account of the global student uprising inLong March, Short Spring (1969) through her examination of the denial of death in American culture, Natural Causes (2018)—Ehrenreich argued that the self is made and remade continuously through speech and action.
How is it that a movement which brought26 million people into struggle could be rendered impotent in such a short period of time? Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò offers insight into this question in his new bookElite Capture.
Other heated historical differences, like ‘mixed race’, later became accepted norms or at least considerably diminished areas of contestation. What about the trans issue?
Most of the debates on the usage of “Latinx” – pronounced “la-teen-ex” – have taken place in the U.S. But the word has begun to spread into Spanish-speaking countries – where it hasn’t exactly been embraced.
Three movies that are the talk of the festival circuit — “TÁR,” “Women Talking,” and “Bardo” — tell us that cancel culture will be a big theme this Oscar season.
Sergio Pastor’s hip hop is infused with political consciousness. His first songs at the bus stops had messages of change and awareness in the face of the harsh reality that he and his fellow Colombians lived every day. Now he is one of 300 young people incarcerated for crimes that allegedly occurred during last year’s National Strike.
As the new school year starts in Poland, the ruling party is overhauling the social studies curriculum supposedly to improve students’ historical consciousness. But with a single new textbook, critics warn this is no less than an attempt to indoctrinate youth.
