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Excerpted from chapter 5 of Race by Martin Orkin and Alexa Alice Joubin. New Critical idiom Sereis. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 193-227. Full text available online

When confronted with the unknown, many societies tend to transfer observations of unfamiliar phenomena onto their mental map of what is already known. Race as a category is entangled with empirical knowledge, misinformation, and ideology, all of which seek to justify and sustain particular beliefs. Knowledge about otherness is socially constructed. Knowledge of race results from taxonomical observations made for colonial, medical, bureaucratic, or other purposes such as political movements. ...continue reading "Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness"

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Thames flooded
Thames flooded

My research on Shakespeare and intercultural global performances took me to London, where I was working on a book on how diasporic artists approach Shakespeare and how their works are received.      One day, I rented a bike and rode along the Thames. One section was flooded due to high tide, and I rode with the ducks.

This section of beautiful Chelsea seems to be flooded often during high tide of the Thames. Ducks swam on the street.

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