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Simpler Times

January 14, 2015 by fritztucker

Today I stumbled upon these photos from a 1946 yearbook uploaded to Imgur. The captions speak for themselves, with descriptions like: Vera Brumfield: Our pretty little “fat” girl–nice as they come. Doesn’t really need reducing. Mildred Howerton: Here comes the Navy. She’s got the ring but Mildred, remember, a sailor’s got a gal in every port. Catherine Cobb: Plump, nice, good all around. Always a smile, never a frown–Her pet game is basketball. Romaine Childress: Big little woman, pleasant ways, […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: childhood, civil rights, education, gender, love, politics, sexuality, women

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Masking

January 7, 2015 by fritztucker

The holiday season ended with my brother, who went to high school with Azealia Banks, showing me her 212 video, which is amazing, but which was inevitably followed by my first Iggy Azalea video, which was less so. Iggy Azalea’s behavior, for anybody who’s watched or listened to Fancy, is obviously problematic. Nevertheless, it’s important to discern between what we can and can’t blame on Iggy. Musically, Iggy Azalea is merely the latest in a long line of white musicians to borrow heavily from black musicians. If […]

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The Known

December 16, 2014 by fritztucker

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive   My curiosity piqued by the newly released Senate report on CIA torture, I just watched Errol Morris’ The Unknown Known. The part where Donald Rumsfeld metaphorically chalks up a victory to himself is a pretty good metaphor for the entire documentary (2:46-3:46 above). Morris asks Rumsfeld about torture memos, but not the testimonies of Guantanamo detainees that have been public for nearly a decade, many of which make torture […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: crime, death, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, film, Guantanamo, History, politics, torture, war

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Joy in a Police State

December 9, 2014 by fritztucker

Although the video of this young girl’s spontaneous dance party has been viewed by millions, energetic outbursts by young children on the subway are more typically followed by a parent threatening or abusing the child if he or she doesn’t sit still. I witnessed one such scene on a nearly empty E train the other day. I’ve observed scenes like this regularly since I began riding the subway daily as a teenager. More often, I noticed public child abuse at the […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, anthropology, education, ethics, History, New York City, police state, politics, sociology, subway

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Iconic, but of what?

December 3, 2014 by fritztucker

[print_link] [email_link] If a tree falls in a forest and six different news channels capture footage of it, does it matter? The Internet has changed, ever so slightly, the definition of mass media. Major networks still create most of it. Now, however, anybody has the potential to create iconic images if they get enough retweets and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. Recently, a photo of a crying Afro-American boy embracing a compassionate, Euro-American cop at a Ferguson solidarity protest in Portland, Oregon has gone viral, typically accompanied […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, art, children, civil rights, ethics, New York City, politics, race, technology

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The Lincoln Tunnel to Ferguson

November 26, 2014 by William Eaton

I regrettably ended up with the more dysfunctional of the two ‘solidarity with Ferguson’ protests last night. I didn’t think marching to Times Square was desirable in the first place. Somewhere along the way, however, we went west, and half-an-hour later ended up at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. For those who are familiar with NYC geography, that is a considerable and complex diversion, not merely a wrong turn. I asked several people how/why we ended up there. The only person who […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, civil rights, crime, death, New York City, politics, race

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Reading: 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR)

February 28, 2013 by fritztucker

Reading 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR) Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 27 February 2013 Sugata Mitra has just won the prize for the best TED talk of 2012. I must say that his talk on student-driven education is probably the most inspiring and affirming (of my views on education) video I’ve ever seen. Some quotes from his interview in the New York Times today are as follows: But […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, education, feminists, Marxism, New York City, TED Talks

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Reading: 13-20 January 2013 (ZiR)

January 14, 2013 by fritztucker

Reading 13-19 January 2013 (ZiR) Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 13 January 2013 As a (possibly) soon-to-be adjunct professor, I have been keeping an eye out for any sociological critiques of pop-culture to lure my unsuspecting (hypothetical) students into criticizing about the world around them. I came across this article about The Berenstain Bears in The New York Observer‘s Scooter Magazine. It turned out to be […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: Orwell, school

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