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Category: Considering Hate
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By Kay Whitlock This is the second part of the two-part discussion of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman begun on July 17 with Michael Bronski's blog piece. *** What is always at stake in a contest of imaginations is the question of whose lives matter. —Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics …
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By Michael Bronski This blog post is one of two about the publication of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman. To read part two, Kay Whitlock's follow-up on the conversation, click here. *** American readers love stories of political uplift and inspiration rather than forthright, bluntly honest accounts of unpalatable truths and realities. They especially love them when…
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By Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski The Tribe/YouTube “What if sensational acts of hate violence, which media accounts often represent as aberrant, actually reflect existing community norms?” —Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics Early in the morning on Saturday, June 27, 2015, ten days following a mass killing in a…
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The RFRA controversy is just one aspect of a much larger monkey wrench hurled by the right into the entire framework of civil rights.
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With the excitement following the announcement of the forthcoming publication of Harper Lee’s second book, Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski take a fresh, critical look at the way in which To Kill a Mockingbird frames its discussion of racial violence and responsibility for both perpetrating and dismantling it.
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D. W. Griffith’s infamous silent film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ turns 100 years old this Sunday. In an excerpt from their new book CONSIDERING HATE, Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski investigate the legacy of that film’s “politically fraught public discussion of hate, race, power, and sex.”
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‘Considering Hate’ authors Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski examine the shadow side of the #JeSuisCharlie movement.
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In our January releases, we explore a geopolitical conservation effort, redefine the source of hatred and hate-driven violence, return Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to his radical roots, and expose the hypocrisy of “merit-based” admissions practices. These are books you will be thinking about and discussing for the rest of the year.
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