Tag: immigration

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+ Ágota Kristóf, france, hungary, immigration, Literature, reading, refugee

Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

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A few days ago, as I am wont to do on occasion, I walked through the stacks at my local library, immediately making a line towards the French literature section. I did this, partly, because I had just read Michael Rothberg’s Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and wanted to see if I could find some of the works by Didier Daeninckx, André Schwarz-Bart, and … Read More Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

+ ICE, immigration, Rümeysa Öztürk, vanity fair

Who deserves to be heard?: Rümeysa Öztürk and the Power of Listening

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On March 25, six plainclothes DHS agents “arrested” Rümeysa Öztürk, a 30-year Tufts University PhD student in child psychology and development. Öztürk, a Turkish national, earned a master’s in developmental psychology from Columbia University where she attended on a Fulbright scholarship, and she continued her study at Tufts on a F-1 student visa. The agents grabbed Öztürk as she left her home to meet … Read More Who deserves to be heard?: Rümeysa Öztürk and the Power of Listening

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+ alligator alcatraz, budget, concentration camp, lillian e smith

Amidst the Cruelty, Where Do You Stand?

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Years ago, when I taught in Louisiana, I remember a student walking into the classroom with an “Angola, a gated community” t-shirt. I grew up in Louisiana, I knew about Angola, specifically that it rests on the lands of a former plantation and its long record of humanitarian offenses. I also knew it was the largest maximum-security prisons in the United States. I also … Read More Amidst the Cruelty, Where Do You Stand?

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