Tag Archives: race

“Nonviolence as Compliance” and “The Nature of Poverty” (Baltimore)

Posted on May 1, 2015 by zjb

Lots of friends responded to “Nonviolence as Compliance,” this piece, which you can read here, that Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote for The Atlantic. I supposed I understand the sentiment. But what comes after violence is nothing cathartic. Just more decline because … Continue reading →

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Freddie Gray Baltimore (Aryeh Cohen at Justice in the City)

Posted on April 28, 2015 by zjb

I’m not sure at what point I realized just how segregated a place Baltimore is. As I remember it, Baltimore was a place with tough ethnic enclaves (WASP, Polish, Irish, Jewish), where the races never mixed, not easily or on … Continue reading →

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Holy Days Crown Heights Riot (Reading Lis Harris, Jean Baudrillard, and Anna Deavere Smith)

Posted on April 21, 2015 by zjb

Last week my American Judaism grad seminar, we read Lis Harris’ Holy Days, a mid 1980s chronicle about her explorations into the Lubavitch community. We read her text along with Haym Soloveitchik’s “Rupture and Transformation,” and passages from Jean Baudrillard’s … Continue reading →

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Afro-futurism (‘The Shadows Took Shape’ at the Studio Museum

Posted on December 2, 2013 by zjb

David Huffman MLK Kiluanji Kia Henda, Icarus William Cordova Miniature Spacecraft Derrick Adams, We<> Here William Viallongo Cristina de Middel, Afronauts (Charles Shabacon, portrait of Sun Ra) A few of the things I saw, “The Shadows Took Shape” at the Studio … Continue reading →

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