Instructor: Paige Sweet
Across a stunning oeuvre that includes fiction, drama, theory, and criticism, the Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter attempts nothing less than a whole-scale rethinking of the human. For Wynter, the notion of “Man” that has developed since the enlightenment is everywhere and yet exclusive. It projects a narrow Western middle and upper class ideal, fundamentally racist, violent, and constitutive of global exploitation. Drawing on work by Franz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aimé Césaire, Wynter prods us, in Katherine McKittrick’s words, to consider “the possibility of undoing and unsettling not replacing or occupying Western conceptions of what it means to be human.” For Wynter, this means decolonizing cultural, literary, and political histories of the Caribbean, as well as a promiscuous combination of science studies, migratory politics, Black studies, and myth-making to generate a new understanding of the human as part of political practice. How, for Wyn
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 21, 2020
As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.
Dan Kois, a writer for The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepare for the possibility that someone might try to shoot her, someday later, at her school.
Kois posted about the experience on a private Facebook group for parents and was shocked at the number of parents from across the country who reported similar experiences.
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 21, 2020
As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.
Dan Kois, a writer for The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepare for the possibility that someone might try to shoot her, someday later, at her school.
Kois posted about the experience on a private Facebook group for parents and was shocked at the number of parents from across the country who reported similar experiences.
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 21, 2020
As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.
Dan Kois, a writer for The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepare for the possibility that someone might try to shoot her, someday later, at her school.
Kois posted about the experience on a private Facebook group for parents and was shocked at the number of parents from across the country who reported similar experiences.
By Bill Galluccio
Dec 21, 2020
As many schools across the country have transitioned to virtual learning, they have also continued holding active-shooter drills, even as students remained at home.
Dan Kois, a writer for The students watched a video on their computers about lockdown procedures, then practiced hiding under desks. And so it happened that in this, the most absurd and bewildering academic year of her life, my eighth-grader tucked herself under the table in her bedroom, to prepare for the possibility that someone might try to shoot her, someday later, at her school.
Kois posted about the experience on a private Facebook group for parents and was shocked at the number of parents from across the country who reported similar experiences.