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Uof Winnipeg. Black Atlantic; Book "Myths of Mastery" and Mary Prince for Broadview. Holistic abolition. 😷 She/hers 🇹🇹🇮🇪 Views my own.
Jun 10, 2024 10 tweets 2 min read
I've been stunned to see the celebration of this piece by Adam Shatz which is a clear piece of critical counter-insurgency, along with his misreading and appropriation of Frantz Fanon. 1/
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/… Hiding in plain sight is Zionist apology in its account of "a ‘cultural Zionism’ that advocated the creation of a binational state based on Arab-Jewish co-operation". 2/
Apr 21, 2024 11 tweets 3 min read
TS wants "the 1830s but without all the racists". Why choose 1830s? One reason is it taps into the global cultural currency of Regency Whiteness that @desha_osborne & I argue is forged by Jane Austen's novels and reproduced globally by Austen cultures, afterlives & adaptations 1/ Drawing on Edward Said, Gerald Horne and others, essays for the volume examine the powerful race-making work that Austen’s novels perform and the global significance of this work in forging white subjectivity as universal. 2/