This Concerns Everyone by Vijay Prashad.
[Talk at the National Association for Multicultural Education – NAME --
Conference, Chicago, November 4, 2011]
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My heart makes my head swim.
Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks.
Part I: Bare Life.
Reports and rumors filter out of government documents and family distress
signals to locate precisely the ongoing devastation of social life in the United
States. Unemployment rates linger at perilously high levels, with the effective
rate in some cities, such as Detroit, stumbling on with half the population without