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Feb 22

On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston

We round out our celebration of Black History Month with an excerpt from Daphne Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award and a Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year. …

Music

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On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston
On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston

Feb 15

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Our third excerpt to celebrate Black History Month comes from Vincent Brown’s award-winning Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, which Cornel West calls “brilliant” and “groundbreaking.” This gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an uprising that laid bare the interconnectedness…

Black History Month

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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Feb 8

Traveling Black

All this month we are celebrating Black History Month with excerpts from some of our recent books. In Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 and a book that Ibram X. …

Black History Month

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Traveling Black
Traveling Black

Feb 1

The Origin Story of Black Education

To celebrate Black History Month, we’ve chosen excerpts from our books that reflect varied aspects of the Black experience. Fittingly, our first excerpt comes from a book about historian and educator Carter Woodson, the founder of Black History Month. The Los Angeles Review of Books praised Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G…

Education

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The Origin Story of Black Education
The Origin Story of Black Education

Oct 20, 2021

Outbreak Culture

As we saw with the Ebola outbreak — and the disastrous early handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic — a lack of preparedness, delays, and system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical supplies can have deadly consequences. Yet after every outbreak, the systems put in place to coordinate emergency…

Medicine

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Outbreak Culture
Outbreak Culture

Oct 5, 2021

GPS: What We Lose By Using It

How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we’ve never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it’s also…

Technology

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GPS: What We Lose By Using It
GPS: What We Lose By Using It

Jul 23, 2021

An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

In awarding Bruno Latour the 2021 Kyoto Prize for arts and philosophy, the Inamori Foundation said he has “revolutionized the conventional view of science” and “his philosophy re-examines ‘modernity’ based on the dualism of nature and society.” Below is an excerpt from An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. For…

Philosophy

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An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

Jul 15, 2021

We Have Never Been Modern

Congratulations to Bruno Latour for being named the 2021 Kyoto Prize laureate for arts and philosophy. To celebrate, here’s an excerpt from We Have Never Been Modern. By claiming that the modern Constitution does not permit itself to be understood, by proposing to reveal the practices that allow it to…

Philosophy

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We Have Never Been Modern
We Have Never Been Modern

Jun 22, 2021

How To Be Gay

To celebrate Pride Month, we are highlighting excerpts from books that explore the lives and experiences of the LGBT+ community. This second excerpt comes from How To Be Gay, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, in which David M. Halperin, a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, dares to suggest that…

Pride

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How To Be Gay
How To Be Gay

Jun 15, 2021

The Beginnings of the Gay Rights Movement

To celebrate Pride Month, we are highlighting excerpts from books that explore the lives and experiences of the LGBT+ community. Nathaniel Frank’s Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America tells the dramatic story of the struggle for same-sex couples to legally marry, something that is now taken…

History

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The Beginnings of the Gay Rights Movement
The Beginnings of the Gay Rights Movement
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