Sunday Reading
by zunguzungu
- Maps of the End of the World
- “The earthquake that swallowed up the Sodom of the West Indies, and an aftershock that regurgitated one lucky merchant”
- Ebola in (Anthropological) Perspective
- Representation of Kurdish Women Fighters in the Media
- “There were no homes in Turkey anymore; everything was real estate and everywhere was investment.”
- The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon
- Making Sense, Black Survivals
- Marriage is an Abduction
- Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between
- “a simulated English village built in 2003 by the Metropolitan Police”
- Ecologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee
- The Dark Market for Personal Data
- Interview on The Black Box Society
- Grooming Students for A Lifetime of Surveillance
- Whisper: The Facts
- The Life of an Uber Driver
- The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It’s Gamergate
- Hack Education Weekly News: Yes, #Gamergate is an Ed-Tech Issue
- Should You Go to College?
- Explaining Tuition Hikes at the University of Michigan
- National Adjunct Walk Out Day
- Them That’s Got Shall Get
- Sex Trafficking and Fast Fashion
- ♫ Roxane ♫
- The Woman Wild
- Reelin’ in the Years
- Paul Farmer on Ebola
- “Managed retreat” in post-Sandy Staten Island[video 12:28]
- Chalmers Johnson and Alfred McCoy on American Empire[radio 53:59]
Internet K-Holes that Jacqui Shine Has Known:
- The story of Cosette Newton, whobuilt a full-size ship in her Dallas backyard
- Rex Humbard, the first televangelist(who prayed with Elvis), builder of Akron, Ohio’s Cathedral of Tomorrow, which was then sold to Ernest Angley, this week the subject of this six-part investigative report.
- And some other things!
- The history of Esquire
- Newly digitized run of SNCC newspaper The Student Voice
- India’s forgotten participation in World War I
- G. Wodehouse’s Love Among the Chickens
- Jack Webb doing a weird spoken-word version of “Try a Little Tenderness”
- Five myths of high tuition/high aid
- Academic civility and its discontents
- Grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance
- Education at the intersection of “zero tolerance” and “school choice”
- Why are police using military-grade weapons in high schools?
- “Broken windows” policing in the classroom
- Fear of a trans college
- “The modern university does a better job of promoting class stratification than
- advancing social mobility.”
- Communiqué from occupied Saint Louis University
- Notes on the school-to-prison pipeline
- Joint statement on Columbia University’s response to police raid in West Harlem
- 43 missing students, state crimes, and resistance in Mexico
- Against carceral feminism
- After Ferguson
- Indian Muslims and Palestinian Awqaf
- Moroccan Jewish bridal customs
- The Hammam Lif synagogue, Tunisia
- The Emergence of the “Arab Jew” in Contemporary Arabic Literature
- Punjabi Parmesan: Europe Through the Looking Glass
- Byron’s Armenian studies at the San Lazzaro monastery in Venice
- Armenian Realpolitik during the Era of the Crusades
- The last saz maker in Sarajevo
- The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200-1450
- Seeking Employment in the British Empire
- Footnotes in History: Being Anglo-Indian
- Writing the Races in the 1896 Berlin Trade Exposition’s Souvenir Album
- Étienne Balibar on cosmopolitanism and secularism
- “Gulf Futurism is not an alternative. It is the present made slightly (and harmlessly) more ridiculous”
- A day in the life of a Moscow Metro station bench
- Destination Bombay (1976)
- Edward Said’s Music: a panel discussion
- Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel Lecture
- How to Translate a Recipe
- The origins of the word “fulan”
- “We cannot do more than what we can do.”
- Newspaper in Saudi offers a helpful info box about “sorcery” and “black magic.” It’s said to be “rampant”
- “The cop, his name was Calvin, goes ‘Oh my God, I’ve just booked the son of the director of the CIA, I’m in real trouble.’”
- “It is not unusual for dwarfs to be hired as entertainers at hen and stag parties in Spain”
- “In a matter of seconds, then, the von Aue-Harati duo has managed to reduce Beirut to ‘not Hezbollah'”
- “Lebanon saw its Jewish community grow through most of the 1950s..by 1970 [the number] dwindled to fewer than 2,000”
- “Imagine if they make it into Ras Baalbek and crucify a Christian in the central square. It will set Lebanon alight”
- “At his request, I pour the rest of the water on his head and down his shirt.”
- “They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life.”
- “This little man did after all have the power to make life difficult if he wanted.”
- “Within an hour the bird was inside sitting on their coffee table, politely refusing a meal of lettuce.”
- “Marines are once again guarding the U.S. Embassy in Beirut around the clock for the first time since the 1980s.”
- “Daddy, why are you staring at your phone?”
