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representation
January 6, 2021
Amir-Hussein Radjy
A Novelist’s
Reckoning With Identity Politics
Ayad Akhtar’s novel “Homeland Elegies” confronts a culture that expects Muslim Americans to explain themselves.
March 10, 2020
J.C. Pan
How to See Yourself in a Presidential Candidate
The Democratic primary is down to two old white men, but political representation should mean more than identity alone.
August 7, 2019
Timothy Yu
The Case of the “Disappearing” Poet
Why did a white poet see the success of writers of color as a signal of his own demise?
September 27, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What Was
Will & Grace
?
The show was never about social justice. But that begs the question: What exactly was it about?
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