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Kamel Daoud, Algerian novelist and journalist

Names & Naming—Identity, Self-Determination, Power

August 30, 2016 by Steven A. Burr

Well just look at all the other Musas in this dive, one by one, and imagine—as I do—how they could have survived a shot fired in bright sunlight or how they managed never to cross paths with that writer of yours or, in a word, how they’ve managed to not be dead yet. — The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud (translated by John Cullen) The question is not whether Lincoln [in the Gettysburg Address] truly meant “government of the people” but […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baltimore unrest, Camus, colonialism, Franz Fanon, identity, L’Étranger, memory, Nietzsche, racism, self-determination

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Harlem Hospital, Patient Navigation, Dr. Freeman

November 2, 2015 by William Eaton

By 1921, more than 200,000 African Americans had migrated to Harlem and about half of them utilized Harlem Hospital. Many of these people had come up from the South with the hope of living a better life in New York. But, among other things—and reflecting the segregation of the times—Harlem Hospital only provided health care to African Americans on certain days of the week, unless extra fees were paid. Thus, for example, an article from the New York Herald, […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: breast cancer, cancer, discrimination, Harlem, health care, New York City, patient navigation, racism, women's health

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Ferguson, Journalism, Twitter

December 17, 2014 by William Eaton

The news media and social media: Together for better and for worse By Sue Ellen Christian and Herbert Lowe {Note: This is the second in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders.} St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch indicted both traditional news media and social media when he announced the grand jury’s decision to not recommend charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American, under […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: Ferguson, journalism, racism, Twitter

“Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical”

September 14, 2014 by William Eaton

“Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical,” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote in a famous Supreme Court dissent. “If you have no doubt of your premises or your power, and want a certain result with all your heart, you naturally express your wishes in law, and sweep away all opposition.” Holmes is getting to the heart of the problem of the persecution of people who speak out against prevailing opinion. But he seems to be underestimating […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: freedom of speech, homophobia, law, racism, sexism, Supreme Court

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The (Counter-) Power of Deejays

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

The Racialized Other Moves Still The (Counter-)Power of Dance, Dance Floors, and Deejays By Ghaida Moussa Click here for PDF version. My entry into the practice of deejaying stems from my deep-rooted relationship with music. I know firsthand the power of good soundtracks to pivotal moments in life. I think about a good drive after a break-up, with a best friend picking the best tunes to sing our hearts out to or the way family members who do not […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: music, postcolonialism, queer theory, race, racism

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Thinking Yoga

January 31, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I digress from the topic of film this week because this morning I was struck by a pair of articles I read on yoga. I was first directed to Erika Nicole Kendall’s An Open Letter to the XOJane Writer Who Complained About a Black Woman in Her Yoga Class and then thought I should first read the letter itself (Jen Carol’s It Happened to Me: There are no black people in my yoga classes and I’m suddenly feeling uncomfortable with it) […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: exercise, race relations, racism, Yoga

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Our hidden search for homogeneity

January 13, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

I often avoid talking about race, class, and migration in public. People seem to take these topics as an opportunity to strengthen their beliefs, rather than to enter a discussion. (see “Breaking up the Echo” quoted in my first week of reading). A recent article in the New York Times opinion pages has taken my conviction a step further. In Does Immigration mean ‘France is Over’? Justin E. H. Smith suggests that people not only seek homogeneity in their own lives; they […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: beliefs, culture, diversity, immigration, migration, New York Times, racism, reading