Ben Railton
AmericanStudier
Been too long since I highlighted great public scholarly pieces. Got one of my own with @myHNN coming later today, but first, here are a handful from the past week
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It's so hard not to give in to doomscrolling & depression right now. But my lifelong critical optimism ain't giving up that easy. So for each day of August, I'm
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There are many deeply, frustratingly American contexts for the police brutality in MN, 1st against #GeorgeFloyd & then against protesters. But I’m thinking in particular about the frame I'm seeing
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In light of @caleb_crain's excellent @NewYorker piece on the 1898 Wilmington coup & massacre, wanted to say a few things about that event & my favorite American novel (Charles Chesnutt's
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Trump’s proposed anti-immigration EO is as xenophobic & cruel as it is stupid & counterproductive. It embodies the worst of US exclusion w/out even tangentially addressing the pandemic, & given
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