June 2011
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signs that your dissertation is in trouble
you have reached the point where, in recognition of their support both of your writing process and your (false) sense of capacity, you are considering thanking john jameson & sons in your acknowledgements.
upon reviewing the marginal notes and editorial comments that you have written on your most recent draft, you realize that there are multiple sections on which you have simply written,...
“I passed nine bills and had them signed into law, a record for a black freshman...”
– Shirley Chisholm, during the question-and-answer session following her talk, “The Black as a Colonized Man,” Atlanta, GA, 1969.
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What Is African American Literature? A Symposium... →
lareviewofbooks:
Part I of a series of pieces responding to Kenneth W. Warren’s What Was African American Literature? (Harvard University Press, 2011)
“Indeed the rhetoric of privilege is so entrenched in U.S. political discourse...”
– Chris Chen, “‘We have all become students of color now’: The California Student Movement and the Rhetoric of Privilege”
My emphasis. Â Important thoughts on the limits of the privilege-checking that we seem to instinctively perform every day.
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