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Quick Hit: Guernica interviews Ayana Mathis
TweetGuernica has just published a great interview with Ayana Mathis, who has just published her first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, to great popular and critical success. The whole transcript is worth the read, but my favorite parts were Mathis’s descriptions of writing minority characters without burdening them with representation. She explains: My book [...]
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Zoe Saldana can miss me with her oversimplified views on race and gender
Tweet Photo: Coqueran/FameFlynet Pictures We haven’t talked about this at great length yet but I’d been thinking about Zoe Saldana’s comments about race in recent interviews (BET and Allure) she’s done to promote the new Star Trek film. I don’t know. The key problem in Zoe’s comments seems to be rooted in the fact that [...]
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Are Republicans going to try to impeach Obama?
TweetI’m surprised it took House Republicans three years to talk impeachment. Certainly, when they won back the House, which is where the impeachment process begins, I imagined “impeachment” would become part of our collective lexicon again as the Republicans went after another Democratic president. The loss of the White House in 2012, allowed House Republicans [...]
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The Academic Feminist: Women of Color, Racism and Resilience in Academia
TweetWelcome back, Academic Feminists! Today, I am proud to present an interview with Carmen G. González, professor of law at Seattle University School of Law, who, together with co-editors Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Angela P. Harris, recently released the collection, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in [...]
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