Tag: Nationalism

Sports
What Do Sporting Boycotts Tell Us About Ourselves?
The decision to boycott has been coupled with questions about what NBA players and other professional athletes are going to do next.  The boycotting, however, needs to be framed as a greater cultural moment that is reflective of American shortcomings rather than asking athlete to carry the mantel for social activism.
September 1, 2020
Gavin, Michael
Opinion
Academic Bigotry is Back, Thanks to Amy Wax
Dr.  Amy Laura Wax, who holds the Robert Mundheim chair at the University of Pennsylvania, recently gave a speech in Washington, D.C. She has made herself a celebrity among academic bigots.Using a term she coined “cultural distance nationalism,” she stated: “We are better off if our country is dominated numerically, demographically, politically, at least in fact if not formally, by people from the First World, from the West, than by people from countries that had failed to advance.”
August 9, 2019
FrankWufeatured
Opinion
The Hate We Give: Voting Against Violence
Lifting your voice can be subversive. This is a lesson learned by Starr Carter, the main character in Angie Thomas’s debut novel The Hate You Give. Thomas shattered that mold by crafting a complex narrative of the repeated messages that tell young people their lives have less meaning than others simply because of where they live, who they love and how they look. The book is an affirmation of the beauty of young people and their ability to challenge the boundaries of community both real and imagined: “Your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be the roses that grow in the concrete.” Let’s be roses. Together.”
October 29, 2018
KHALILAHBROWN
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