Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 10

Don’t Turn Around

Beloved Swedish pop group Ace of Base has a lot to tell us about Afghanistan. Or maybe not.

A Historic Seaside Community

Brian Dunlap on the historic erasure of Santa Monica's Black community, and the beach sometimes called the Inkwell

Teaching in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Jimmy Seale Collazo on the prospects of online learning, and a dangerous managerial vision that seeks to alienate educators from their work

Let Us See It Smiling Back

We offer reading recommendations amid the banality of the forever-Pandemic.

The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76

The Left once tried to own the legacy of America's Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.

“Racism is a virus?” Challenge the Discourse and Remake the Nation

Stan Thangaraj on the ways that metaphors can muddy our understanding of history and power.

Down and Out in Roku Channel’s America

An alternate reality is hiding in your tiny streaming box.

A Leaked Peer Review

It is highly unusual for this to happen, but the reader reports for In Search of the Third Bird by MIT Press have leaked.

Pedro’s Theory in the Classroom & the Ongoing Project of Crafting an Otherwise

Marcos Gonsalez’s debut novel provides an occasion for reflection and healing in traumatic times, now and past.

“Where Were You When We Were Getting High?”: English Football, Politics, and Culture Since Euro 1996

It's a long time since the vaporous heyday of Cool Britannia, and both the UK and European football look much different than they did in 1996.