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The arguments by current education reformers: that too many Black parents do not value education and are not transmitting the proper values to their children; that teachers’ unions are an obstacle to racial justice in education; that philanthropists are Black parents’ best ally in the struggle for equality; and that racial justice is not synonymous with desegregation or equitable funding, but rather with market-oriented changes that foster competition and encourage private-sector management of schools are based on a dubious set of propositions about racial politics today.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
Those of us who love reading and writing believe that being a writer is a sacred trust. It means telling the truth. It means being incorruptible. It means not being afraid, and never lying. Those of us who love reading and writing feel great pain because so many people who write books have become cowards, clowns, and liars. Those of us who love reading and writing begin to feel a deadly contempt for books, because we see writers being bought and sold in the market place—we see them vending their tarnished wares on every street corner. Too many writers, in keeping with the Amerikan way of life, would sell their mothers for a dime.
Last Days at Hot Slit
Andrea Dworkin; Johanna Fateman (Ed); Amy Scholder
It is now very clear that what we have for the longest time called “colonialism” was nothing more than the global abuse of labor by capital times geography.
Europe and Its Shadows
Hamid Dabashi
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