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Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
29 Jun 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis

Medical, economic and political crises have combined to create a “perfect storm for reading, because of the ways that the ideology of whiteness has come to its limits,” said Aparna Mistra Tarc, professor of Education at York University, in Toronto, Canada. People are seeing more clearly “what the consumptive, neoliberal American dream is doing to the world,” said Tarc.

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