“Fairness” is the latest iteration of the respectability politics that has shaped the LGBTQ+ equal rights agenda for the past 35 years. Its weaponization by the leadership class across the political ...
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Tayari Jones’s respectability politics
This review contains some spoilers. What constitutes a good life? For decades, the answer has been some version of the American Dream: a couple of kids, vacations, a house, a husband or wife, and a ...
The latest installment of “Jurassic Park” is hitting theaters July 4th weekend, and while normally I detest silly summer sequels, for some reason I do enjoy watching dinosaurs eat people on the big ...
What could not save Philando Castile, Jordan Edwards or Richard Collins III is the same thing that I have been told would save me, a young black college student: respectability. Charmaine Edwards, ...
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The absurdity and quiet respectability politics in USDOT’s push to make travelers ‘dress with respect’
The U.S. Department of Transportation released a campaign late November, declaring an attempted “return” to the “Golden Age of Travel.” There were a few behaviors emphasized in the campaign, like ...
In Atlanta, Black politics is contained by the churches and civil rights officialdom in a way that is very peculiar compared with anywhere else I have lived. The Black church, along with the culture ...
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