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2 years ago
in Census Bureau’s Own Study Says Bureau Should Stop Miscounting Prisoners on Hungry Blues
Another problem (no doubt related) concerns prisoners (disproportionately African American and male) are disenfranchised of their voting status in key status even AFTER they have served their sentences and are out. This link from blackprof.com delves into this problem. Great post.
2 years ago
in Abu Ghraib, USA on Hungry Blues
Thank you so much for continuing to report on this issue. As a person who struggles daily and weekly with PTSD I am very sensitive to this issue. Much love, JDJ
2 years ago
in My First Academic Citation on Hungry Blues
(BTW: I love the instant preview function. I must say that without exaggeration or conflict of interest: the design of this blog is the clearest and most elegant of any that I have seen.)
I, for one, am very happy that you are celebrating your achievement. Your blog is the time and place to do so and I am celebrating with you. Even more importantly, many of the insights that you put forth in the voting rights piece are invisiblized by other news and research sources. People truly committed to learning about disenfranchisement and advocating against it often have few options beyond the mainstream news sources and the sometimes equally as mainstream and risk-adverse spheres of academe.
In other words, your In These Times article truly did have lasting value because you focused on a specific problem that embodies the AFTERMATH of the disenfranchisement borne of Katrina.
I thought of your writing this week while watching parts of Spike Lee's documentary on Katrina.
The documentary is quite good and I take nothing away from Mr. Lee's achievement. I was, however, saddened about the missing stories (or expanded stories) of Mississippian (and not just Louisianian) devastation, real estate abuses, and voting rights disenfranchisement. While the documentary touched on these things, it did not go nearly as incisively into these issues as your work does. It made me feel blessed to have read your work in conjunction with seeing the documentary.
So, please do keeping bragging sometimes: how else are we to know what to celebrate?
I, for one, am very happy that you are celebrating your achievement. Your blog is the time and place to do so and I am celebrating with you. Even more importantly, many of the insights that you put forth in the voting rights piece are invisiblized by other news and research sources. People truly committed to learning about disenfranchisement and advocating against it often have few options beyond the mainstream news sources and the sometimes equally as mainstream and risk-adverse spheres of academe.
In other words, your In These Times article truly did have lasting value because you focused on a specific problem that embodies the AFTERMATH of the disenfranchisement borne of Katrina.
I thought of your writing this week while watching parts of Spike Lee's documentary on Katrina.
The documentary is quite good and I take nothing away from Mr. Lee's achievement. I was, however, saddened about the missing stories (or expanded stories) of Mississippian (and not just Louisianian) devastation, real estate abuses, and voting rights disenfranchisement. While the documentary touched on these things, it did not go nearly as incisively into these issues as your work does. It made me feel blessed to have read your work in conjunction with seeing the documentary.
So, please do keeping bragging sometimes: how else are we to know what to celebrate?
2 years ago
in John Grohol Issues Misleading APA Damage Control on Hungry Blues
For an excellent and somewhat ethnographic account of what really goes on at the Quantanamo Bay Prisons and other "secret" American-run prisons that sprang up since 2001, see the poet and essayist Eliza Griswold's article in the most recent issue of Harper's Magazine called "American Gulag: Prisoners' Tales From the War On Terror." Griswold travelled at some risk to many locales to interview former prisoners and to get some indication of interrogation practices that would augment present data.
I admire the precision of your reporting very, very much. It is Socratic and Platonic on its insistence that faulty rhetoric (and actions) be challenged; and logical fallacies and misleading ornamentations be rebuked.
(PS: The email accompanying my comment is a "dead" address that I'm using to cut down on spam at the website address.)
I admire the precision of your reporting very, very much. It is Socratic and Platonic on its insistence that faulty rhetoric (and actions) be challenged; and logical fallacies and misleading ornamentations be rebuked.
(PS: The email accompanying my comment is a "dead" address that I'm using to cut down on spam at the website address.)
