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Week 1 is Mudimbe's "Invention of Africa," Said's "Orientalism," and Simon Gikandi's "Slavery and the Culture of Taste." I feel like those are the anchors, in addition to @jkpuar's "The Right to Maim" and @jonathansterne's "A Phenomenology of Impairment" https://t.co/myXok5zVQ7

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Really excited about Sarah Derbew's new book about b/Blackness and Greek antiquity, and even more so after this thoughtful review by @senscommunrare https://t.co/2IVi87ZzIQ

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Has anyone written anything about why American actors are so bad at doing black South African accents? I just learnt Taye Diggs played the legendary Henry Nxumalo in DRUM (2004) and I'm sick to my stomach

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@RangaMberi @Dangurangu "The journalist Eve Fairbanks’s sweeping work of narrative reportage, “The Inheritors,” opens in a shack in Soweto" if I speak lol

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@Tanvim A lot of Dalit folks were rightfully angry with Arundhati Roy around her "Annihilation of Caste" foreword, but reading her essay "The Doctor and the Saint" back in 2013 was the first time I realized just how much has gone into paving over Gandhi's actual horrible politics

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It's @PsychosocialFo1 seminar day!! Prepping for Wayne Wapeemukwa's talk about recognition by revisiting "Seeing Red: Reconciliation and Resentment" from @gscoulthard's wonderful book "Red Skin, White Masks" — a treat!

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Cannot recommend enough Ivan Illich’s text “Medical Nemesis” (1976) which describes conterminousness of medical advancements & increase in life term expectancies with the dangers that clinical encounters within industrial medicine poses to patients https://t.co/aDtdyGWcyq

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Good morning only to Avery Gordon's "Ghostly Matters"

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Slightly related, this dossier of engagements with @maxhaiven's "Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts" is very good https://t.co/3ySD2nTxBK

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One of the most valuable things I read in grad school was Starr's "Social Transformation of American Medicine": it offers a valuable narration of how med institutions positioned physicians to monopolize biomedical authority at the expense of all other ways of knowing the body https://t.co/oKglekRhuF