As we follow the camera’s quiet, careful study, we observe—as Fred Moten reflects—that the slave ship also contains the means of its own undoing. The post “Radical Powers of Metamorphosis”: On Global Black Cinema appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
As in Conrad, even when characters think they understand the dynamics of Leonard Woolf’s jungle, they really don’t. The post B-Sides: Leonard Woolf’s “The Village in the Jungle” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
We are in a moment that makes clear that the border—as a regime of enmity—can make intruders of us all. The post Imagining Intruders to Imagine a Nation appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Art practice and speculative imaginaries can be sites of dissent and intervention. The post The Border is a Technology—Art Can Dispute It appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration. The post Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference. The post Borders Are War by Other Means appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core. The post Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion. The post This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Open admissions to all state-funded public universities could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability, and restore Americans’ faith in higher education. The post To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.| Public Books
Geraldo Cadava is a professor of history and Latina and Latino studies at Northwestern University. Before becoming coeditor in chief of Public Books, he| Public Books
Sharon Marcus edits the Film section of Public Books. She is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a| Public Books
“Dahomey” narrates the Danxomèan treasures’ epic journey home. And yet, the film remains haunted by the visible and invisible human labor that made this homecoming—and its cinematic telling—possible.| Public Books
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.| Public Books
“The Austen biography space is fairly saturated and covered. But there’s still a lot more we can learn by seeing her in context: that is, by seeing Austen in relation to her society, her family, her friends.”| Public Books
To reduce the manifold harms of college football, fiery calls for abolition pointed at university decision makers and public health officials won’t get the job done.| Public Books
“Securing the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s greatest success and is his legacy.”| Public Books
The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”| Public Books
The appearance of strangers within family photo albums was part of how a Soviet imagined and imaged community was constructed and sustained.| Public Books
Sarah Kessler edits the TV section of Public Books. A media scholar and television critic, her articles and essays have appeared in the Brooklyn| Public Books
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.| Public Books
But what lies beyond the end of the world? Casting off the trappings accreted by the post-apocalyptic genre emerge stories of the post-post-apocalyptic.| Public Books
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?| Public Books
When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?| Public Books
Should satirical art have equal measures of heart?| Public Books
Playbills, programs, tickets: such physical documents are no longer part of seeing a show on Broadway. Does it matter?| Public Books
