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The melancholia of resistance: Tarantino’s eight film

January 26, 2016June 28, 2021 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera
This is not a review but more a critique of the film’s attempt to make an important statement on America’s history of violence, race relations, corruption, the viciousness of capitalism and, indeed, evil. Continue reading The melancholia of resistance: Tarantino’s eight film

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America’s addiction to violence

January 5, 2016 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux
Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Continue reading America’s addiction to violence

Taking notes 47: Black Americans and the military: this country is not to die for

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015 sanjay perera

by William C. Anderson If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to … Continue reading Taking notes 47: Black Americans and the military: this country is not to die for

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