by Alejandra Padín-Dujon Hello, all you sexy scholars. It’s almost V-Day, and here at DOWN we’re feeling the love. In fact, we’re feeling so Democratic-socialist generous that we’re opening our playbook to the masses. Hot off the press, we humbly present our #woke pick-up lines. For the comrade: Are you a Marxist? Because you’re leading the…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon On January 25th, American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M) associate professor Birgit Rasmussen posted to her Facebook wall: “Craziest shopping period ever is drawing to a close.” Rasmussen—whose impending departure from Yale College comes in the midst of an exodus of ethnic studies faculty—teaches “Race and Gender in American Lit,” the…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon (1) It only looks manageable from a safe distance. Otherwise, it’ll chill you to the goddamn bone. (2) Only God could educate everyone at once. (3) Because Key and Peele said so. (4) The number of POC friends you have has literally no effect on the fact that THE SNOW IS STILL THERE. (5) White people can…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon “There is no specific point at which Black-Cherokee relations begin,” cautioned Yale law student and Harvard Ph.D. candidate Shannon Prince by way of introduction to her history of the Cherokee Freedmen—freed slaves incorporated into the racially diverse Cherokee Nation who struggle to procure tribal citizenship to this day. Prince herself is Black Cherokee,…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon “If truth, reason and conclusive argument, compounded with admirable temper and perfect candour, might be supposed to have an effect on the minds of man, we should think this work would have put an end to agitation on the subject [of slavery].” – “Memoir on Slavery” by William Harper (1853) One week ago, I…