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scientific validity is not guaranteed,

Their ultimate goal is to create in the present a future that overthrows the logic of neoliberalism

They didn’t want equal opportunity in a burning house; they wanted to build a new house

it never occurred to us to refuse to read a text simply because it validated the racism, sexism, free-market ideology, and bourgeois liberalism against which we railed. Nothing was off limits. On the contrary

Study groups

the formal classroom was never the space for deep critique precisely because it was not a place of love

if we argue that state violence is merely a manifestation of anti-blackness because that is what we see and feel, we are left with no theory of the state and have no way of understanding racialized police violence in places such as Atlanta and Detroit, where most cops are black

how can we embrace our students and acknowledge their pain while remaining wary of a culture that reduces structural oppression to misunderstanding and psychology?

This is also why diversity and cultural-competency training are the most popular strategies for addressing campus racism. As if racism were a manifestation of our “incompetent” handling of “difference.”

It is difficult to see this in a world where words such as trauma, PTSD, micro-aggression, and triggers have virtually replaced oppression, repression, and subjugation

The triumph of liberal multiculturalism also meant a shift from a radical anti-capitalist critique to a politics of recognition. This means, for example, that we now embrace the right of same-sex couples to marry so long as they do not challenge the institution itself

the programmatic adoption of diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism vampirized the energy of a radical movement that began by demanding the complete transformation of the social order and the eradication of all forms of racial, gender, sexual, and class hierarchy

Powerful as this might be, the solution to racism still is shifted to the realm of self-help and human resources

Managing trauma does not require dismantling structural racism

Resistance is our heritage. And resistance is our healing

Violence was used not only to break bodies but to discipline people who refused enslavement

But what sustained enslaved African people was a memory of freedom, dreams of seizing it, and conspiracies to enact it—fugitive planning, if you will

the popularity of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015), especially among black college students, rests on his singular emphasis on fear, trauma, and the black body

reading black experience through trauma can easily slip into thinking of ourselves as victims and objects rather than agents

anchors violence in their collective consciousness, produces fear and paranoia—wrapped elegantly in thrill—and shrouds the many ways capitalism, militarism, and racism are killing black and brown people

While every generation of black Americans has experienced unrelenting violence, this is the first one compelled to witness virtually all of it, to endure the snuffing out of black lives in real time, looped over and over again, until the next murder knocks it off the news.

Contrast this with black student protesters who appeal to the university to “repair a broken community,” to make students “feel safe, accepted, supported and like they belong,” and to remedy their sense of alienation through “intense ‘inclusion and belonging’ training for all levels of students, staff, faculty, and administration.”

“It cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be accepted that the university is a place of enlightenment. In the face of these conditions one can only sneak into the university and steal what one can.”

The authors advocate refuge in and sabotage from the undercommons, a subaltern, subversive way of being in but not of the university

Less than two decades later, the United Coalition Against Racism, a student organization at the University of Michigan, established the Ella Baker – Nelson Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Education (BMC). The center was never conceived as a safe space for students of color but rather as a resource for anti-racist struggles “dedicated to the principle of thinking in order to act.”

A smaller, more radical contingent of protesters is less sanguine about the university’s capacity to change. Rejecting the family metaphor, these students understand that universities are not walled off from the “real world” but instead are corporate entities in their own right. These students are not fighting for a “supportive” educational environment, but a liberated one that not only promotes but also models social and economic justice

while trauma can be an entrance into activism, it is not in itself a destination and may even trick activists into adopting the language of the neoliberal institutions they are at pains to reject

I challenge student activists to not cleave their activism from their intellectual lives or mistakenly believe that because the university does not offer them the education they crave, it is beyond their reach.

Analysis of hospital traffic and searchengine data in Wuhan China indicatesearly disease activity in the Fall of 201

also could include loss of taste and smell

we hypothesize that broad community transmission may have led to more acute cases requiring medical attention, resulting in higher viral loads and worse symptoms

gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are a unique feature of COVID-19 disease

Here we show increased hospital traffic and symptom search data in Wuhan preceded the documented start of the SARS-CoV-2pandemic in December2019. While we cannotconfirm if the increased volume was directly related to the new virus, ourevidence supports other recent work showing that emergence happened before identification at the Huanan Seafood market. These findings also corroborate the hypothesis that the virus emerged naturally in southern Chinaand was potentiallyalready circulating at the time of the Wuhan cluster7

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Trump poses an existential threat to democracy; Black Lives Matter does no

Declining sex is at least partly about family and religious changes that make it harder for people to achieve stable, coupled life at a young age.

Thus, while most of the decline in happiness is about declining sex, that’s not the end of the story.

If Americans still had sex like they did in 2008, or even 2012, we might be a much happier country

regularly

Less involvement in the life of a local church, mosque, temple, or synagogue, we speculate, might translate into less happiness for young adults.

(People with very infrequent religious attendance are even less happy than never-attenders; in terms of happiness, a little religion is worse than none.)

Less coupling, then, probably explains some of the decline in happiness among young adults.

Happiness fell most among young men—with only 22 percent of young men (and 28 percent of young women) reporting that they were “very happy” in 2018.

a record low. The share of adults ages 18 to 34 reporting that they were“very happy” in life fell to 25 percent—the lowest level that the General Social Survey, a key barometer of American social life, has ever recorded for that population.

Controlling for basic demographics and other social characteristics, married young adults are about 75 percent more likely to report that they are very happy, compared with their peers who are not married, according to our analysis of the GSS, a nationally representative survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago

Your husband was just killed in Maryland. Incredible man just killed

saved a tremendous, just a tremendous amount on would be sending the military

in Tijuana, you have a lot of people staying

rebuilding the military

campaign promise

announced over the next 24 hours

a lot of great announcements having to do with Syria and our success with the eradication of the caliphate

So we have far more people trying to get into our country today than probably we have ever had before and we have done an incredible job in stopping them

the previous administration, it was heading south and it was going fast

almost 40,000 murders—40,000

We have detained more people

You can’t take human traffic, women and girls, you can’t take them through ports of entry. You can’t have them tied up in the back seat of a car or a truck or a van. They open the door, they look. If they can’t see three women with tape on their mouth or three women whose hands are tied. They go through areas where you have no wall.

It’s wrong. It’s wrong. It’s just a lie. It’s all a lie. They say walls don’t work. Walls work 100 percent. Whether it’s El Paso—I really was smiling because the other night I was in El Paso, we had a tremendous crowd, tremendous crowd, and I asked the people, many of whom were from El Paso, but they came from all over Texas, and I asked, them, I said, “Let me ask you as a crowd, when the wall went up, was it better?” You were there, some of you. It was not only better, it was like 100 percent better.

But we have a very good trading relationship with U.K. and that has just been strengthened further

We have been losing, on average, $375 billion a year with China

A lot of people think it is $506 billion. Some people think it is much more than that

one such case

But as part of the three years they get – already much too short to research and write a PhD thesis in many cases – they have to wait months and months to hear if their article is accepted, and then at least another year before it is published. This wait raises anxiety, which is counter-productive for the larger project

Through the anonymity, it may lure people to be nasty, to fight out their personal dislike of people or approaches

One of those rules is the unquestioned system that all respectable, serious academic journals and book series have to obey the requirement to have all submissions for publication “peer-reviewed”

This reviewer couldn’t stand that I had walked into a territory he considered his property

Since the judgments are asked from people established in a field, these may not welcome innovations that can potentially challenge their fixed views

I can’t blame this on the reviewers, who get no credit whatsoever for this labour.

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accept the discomfort

Yes, of course we need to teach students from other cultures what the rules of the dominant academic culture are, but we need to do it in a way that recognizes it as a problem of cultural conflict, not learning the “right” way to behave, and respect the stresses and issues involved in cultural adaptation and learning to be bicultural.

“It is my goal to make every student in this class feel included and welcome and my goal to help everybody learn this material. I know that we all have different backgrounds and experiences and that I may unintentionally say something that offends you or makes you feel uncomfortable. If this happens, I hope you will tell me.”

This essay is about constructive ways for respondingto criticism about how your style as a person of power or privilege may be hurting others in your teaching or advising.