Contexts Blog
by Sara Goldrick-Rab
Photo by David Shankbone from Flickr Creative Commons The moment before you are served up to an audience as the attraction for the next …
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by Syed Ali
Layers of irrelevance (photo by Dan Phiffer from Flickr Creative Commons) In an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Orlando Patterson, an eminent …
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by Lucia Lykke
With President Obama’s recently announced executive action protecting some immigrant families from deportation, and the pending political battle with Congress, it’s a good time …
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by Steven W. Thrasher
What did we learn about America as the media covered three young Black men in Missouri—an NFL recruit, an HIV-positive alleged sex offender, and a …
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by Philip Cohen
Contexts isn’t just a print magazine. As Syed Ali and I take over the editor’s desk, we’re adding a stream of online content — …
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