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bare life reaches its maximum indeterminacy.
Homo Sacer
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Not only do the Taliban captured inAfghanistan not enjoy the status of POWs as defined by the GenevaConvention, they do not even have the status of persons charged witha crime according to American laws
This is a form of higher punishment than a Legal imprisonment. This is a dehumanizing event.
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- Oct 2023
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via3.hypothes.is via3.hypothes.is
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buy yourself a cheap editionand pay your respects to the author.
Reprogram yourself
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(This man owns books.)
Meme format in 20th century
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the craft of the printer rather than the genius of theauthor.
Adler believes that people hold value in what is easy to achieve and show off, and not in what is more sincerely valuable to ones self.
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a high schooldropout. He did attend Columbia University, but he did not receivehis BA because he refused to take a required swimming test. Adlerdid, however, eventually receive a PhD
Expectation breaker. Goes against the grain. Overtly conscious thinker who does not just let things be or go with the flow.
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- Jul 2023
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Education as the practice of freedom becomes not a forcewhich fragments or separates, but one that brings us closer, expandingour definitions of home and community.
2x Callback: Affirms first statement and belittles second enlightenment; claiming that it is possible to achieve the first if you apply yourself correctly.
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nless we share radical strategies,ways of rethinking and revisioning with students, with kin andcommunity, with a larger audience, we risk perpetuating the stereotypethat we succeed because we are the exception, different from the rest ofour people.
Main idea.
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Many white people enthusiastically supported Richard Rodriguez'svehement contention in his autobiography,Hunger of Memory, that attemptsto maintain ties with his Chicano background impeded his progress, that hehad to sever ties with community and kin to succeed at Stanford and in thelarger world, that family language, in his case Spanish, had to be madesecondary or discarded. If the terms of success as defined by the standards ofruling groups within white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are the onlystandards that exist, then assimilation is indeed necessary.
Counter-literature to All Our Kin, incorrectly identifies universal success as capitalist patriarchal ideas.
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patois
the dialect of the common people of a region, differing in various respects from the standard language of the rest of the country.
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ambivalence
Mixed feelings of contradiction.
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nurtured
Negative contextually, positive connotation typically.
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critical consciousnes
Unique or pensive awareness of ones self.
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If I do notspeak in a language that can be understood, then there is little chance fordialogue
Academic language shields itself from critical discourse surrounding it by creating a veil of misunderstanding.
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einforcesthe notion that the academic world is separate from real life,
Callback: "We participate in a way of learning and being that makes the world more rather than less real"
The goal of higher education is to make the world more real to oneself, but according to Hooks, the academic world creates a separate reality.
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believe that assimilation is the only possible way to survive
Black generations have lost the lifestyles of All Our Kin
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All Our Kin
Novel: Tackles Black adoptions of communal idealism and abolishing individualization and privatization popularly seen and favored by White capitalists. COUNTER THE HEGEMONY!
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cquiescence
To accept something reluctantly but without protest.
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life in asmall town. You always see someone you know. Interruptions,intrusions are part of daily life. Privacy is difficult to maintain.
In a city setting, this interruption or care for others you know is very rare.
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When we commit ourselves to education as the practice offreedom, we participate in the making of an academic communitywhere we can be and become intellectuals in the fullest and deepestsense of the word.
Main Idea: Education is freedom, when we commit to this, we perceive the world in a truly free way.
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