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Melissa Harris-Perry (Wake Forest University professor, MSNBC host) is a wonderful, inspiring person. Prof. Harris-Perry is someone who encounters a frightening situation – a strange man coming too close to her and mumbling vaguely threatening comments – and turns it into a chance to write beautifully about the importance of good teacher – student relationships …
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In a really interesting discussion of Charlie Hebdo and their satirical cartoons on her show, Melissa Harris-Perry mentioned definitions of bigotry and blasphemy that really help when talking about satire, particularly the kind Charlie Hebdo does, and “punching up.” This is the corresponding quote from an article by Mahmood Mamdani in which he defines these …
Melissa Harris-Perry, Tulane professor, MSNBC host, and public intellectual, recently did a Q & A with the readers of Jezebel. The entire piece is a must read, but especially great is this answer to a question on whether "the current state of black feminism is a dying revolution:“ For me, feminism is a question: what truths …
I came up in a time when white intellectuals were forever making breathless pronouncements about their world, about my world, and about the world itself. My life was delineated lists like “Geniuses of Western Music” written by people who evidently believed Louis Armstrong and Aretha Franklin did not exist. That tradition continues. Dylan Byers knows …
The emotion of shame has three important elements. The first is social. Individuals feel ashamed in response to a real or imagined audience. We do not feel shame in isolation, only when we transgress a social boundary or break a community expectation. Our internal moral guide may lead us to feel guilt, but shame comes …
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