The brilliance of my friend @profkori!

“Romance was and is still the core of my sort of narrative and novelistic conception of the world.”

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.Harvey Young has long been a blessing that I count. Still, his generosity manifests on another level in this Public Books convo! Harvey is part of why I understand the joy of having what Toni Morrison called “a friend of your mind.”

Pls READ & SHARE!

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“That’s why I am disgusted when people speak in terms of ‘inclusive excellence.’ Oh, please! As if professional environments became monochromatic because white employees were actually the best and brightest. It would be funny if it weren’t so foul.”

'I believe when you focus on Black homes and how regularly they are attacked, it exposes the reality that meeting the country’s stated standards never produces safety.' -- Koritha Mitchell
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In her scholarship, Koritha Mitchell developed the concept of “know-your-place aggression,” which she defines as a flexible, dynamic array of forces that respond to the achievements of marginalized groups with aggression as often as praise. buff.ly/3wr04lT

New at PB: ​​Harvey Young interviews Koritha Mitchell about her work as a scholar and public intellectual of race in the US, namely her development of concepts such as “white mediocrity” and “know-your-place aggression.” buff.ly/3V04323

John Rollin Ridge’s poetry helped make California, Justin Tackett argues.

His “Poems” helps us to better understand how the state continues to reshape our world, from environmentalism to AI to the persistence of economic and racial inequality. buff.ly/4dEpRaG

His novel “Real Life,” Brandon argues, is a campus novel about how hermetically sealed campus is. “The Late Americans,” by contrast, is a novel about the campus as a porous place where people are diffusing into and out of settings.

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“It's both a reclamation of the fact that Latinos are the South, and that we can be part of the most radical parts of the southern history, and that we have to be honest about the ways we are entangled with white supremacy and anti-Blackness.” buff.ly/4abUocU

John Rollin Ridge is a tricky figure: he killed a man and was unabashedly racist. Yet, he also embraced interracial marriage, opposed Confederate secession and championed Cherokee statehood.

His 1868 “Poems” captures the roiling amalgam of his views: buff.ly/4ak8J7i

For our latest B-Sides, Justin Tackett discusses John Rollin Ridge (Chees-quat-a-law-ny, or Yellow Bird)’s little-known work, “Poems.”

Published posthumously in 1868, the collection provides panoramic & prescient tales of human interaction with nature. buff.ly/4beTsGf

The Fukushima case, Ryo Morimoto reflects, might be unsettling because it provides potential proof that we could actually live with a certain level of radiation.

Such a position might be difficult to accept given the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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For Brandon, moral worldbuilding in fiction requires, for every scene you’re writing, for every story you set out to tell, asking yourself: Is great evil possible in this world that I'm imagining? And if so, what might it look like? buff.ly/3wFGC4C

“It’s becoming an urgent task to pass down the memory of the atomic age into the future.”

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we're still taking submissions, and will be throughout the month. please spread the word!

Please consider submitting to our OPEN CALL for essays, interviews, oral histories, audio/video recordings, artwork, poems, or other forms of media that share reflections, analysis, and testimony about the campus encampments and protest movements.

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Open Call for Submissions — Voices of the Campus Protest Movement:

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📢This! I say this at every talk I give. Latinos have a long history in the South & we aren't foreign to the South. Latinos are southern & the south is Latino. AND that means that non-Black Latinos need to be accountable for our ties to the South's long history of white supremacy

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