According to intersectionality, various forms of oppression are distinct yet interrelated, and these forms stack: A black man is more oppressed than a white man, a black woman is more oppressed than a black man, a gay black woman is even more oppressed, and so on. The Eureka incident lends itself to a kind of Eureka! insight about the problems with intersectionality, which has become the dominant intellectual theory of the left in the three decades since sociologist Kimberle Crenshaw first proposed it. But here's some white folks expressing enthusiasm about joining their comrades of color in the #Resistance, only to be told, Well, maybe you should stay home.
For another, leftists often claim that white people are responsible for President Donald Trump's victory in 2016-inexplicably, white women are held in particular contempt, even though they vote Democratic more often than white men-and need to change their attitudes. For one thing, the disproportionate white involvement might simply reflect the fact that Eureka is about 75 percent white, according to U.S. This news attracted much derision, and deservedly so. "This decision was made after many conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march." Among the works that he may have worked on in the house are “Franny,” “Zooey,” “Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters,” and “Seymour: An Introduction.Organizers of a planned Women's March in Eureka, California, cancelled an event due to concerns that too many white people would show up-which is a pretty damning indictment of intersectionality, the ubiquitous yet contradictory philosophy of the modern activist left.Ī rally had been scheduled for January 19, but Women's March leaders aborted their plans because "up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community," according to a press release. He sold it to the current owner in the early 1960s. The writer purchased the 1939 Dutch Colonial, which is on twelve acres of land, when he left New York in 1953. Salinger’s home in Cornish, New Hampshire is on the market. ALS research is important, but it hasn’t been so fun to see Facebook littered with videos of people self-congratulatingly dousing themselves. Stephen King, Jeff Bezos, and Stephen Colbert have all taken the ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge,” which entails a bucket of ice water getting dumped on the participant, who then nominates others. If you refuse, you’re encouraged to donate to a charity that supports research on the disease.
Apparently the Lexington location is also in lease negotiations. A Brooklyn outpost closed this spring the Upper West Side location closed in 1996, after a Barnes and Noble moved in a block away. At the end of August, they will close their Broadway store, which has been operating without a lease for a year. Long-time New York bookstore Shakespeare & Company may be forced to close permanently. They must earn no more than $39,750 a person. Applicants must be published writers, but do not need to do work as writers full-time. It will give away one house in its inaugural year, and in subsequent years give away three annually. The nonprofit is buying houses on the foreclosure market, renovating them, and giving them to writers.
It’s not that there isn’t a market, says poet Ken Chen, it’s that publishers can’t “imagine” it: “That's not just about a company corporate diversity policy it's about actually knowing what's going on in communities of color."ĭetroit’s Write a House program is underway. “That's not a controversial fact, but sometimes to point it out becomes a controversial thing.” Publishing companies often say that they would publish books by more diverse writers if there were a market for them. Publishing is “overwhelmingly white,” the writer Daniel José Older says.
The second part of a series by NPR’s Lynn Neary, on diversity in the writing world, has aired.