by DOWN’s Editorial Board 1. Race & Gender in American Literature will get enough TAs 2. ER&M will get departmental status 3. We’ll finally know what the Schwarzman Center is for 4. Yale will have as many tenured Native faculty members as it has war criminals 5. Hillary Clinton will successfully hit the quan 6. Macklemore…
by Eugene Lim Looking up at Zwe Mon’s The Gaze (2013), it’s hard not to be struck by the strange proportions of its subject: a heavy-lidded woman stretched vertically across the canvas, glowering. She’s off-center; the viewer searches for balance, travelling up an elongated torso and returning to her face. But her eyes are downcast….
by Matt Thekkethala Here’s what we know: Last year, every single person nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a motion picture was white. This year, every single person nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a motion picture is white. This phenomenon is systemic. There are more white actors, producers,…
by Elaine Lou The first thing I noticed when I got off the plane was the ubiquitous English translation on every Chinese sign. Granted, that’s probably because I was still at Shanghai International Airport. But throughout my stay, I was repeatedly surprised at every English translation I didn’t expect on a menu or a signpost…
by Nicole Chavez On Thursday, February 18th, the International Students’ Organization hosted an event called Race in Global Context. During the two-hour long event held in Linsly Chittenden Hall, about fifty students listened in on three panels in which international students along with faculty discussed the various racial dynamics found in spaces outside of the United…