Though the tagline for Samsung’s new SmartTV is “TV Has Never Been This Smart,” most of the initial commentary on the product was that it was perhaps too smart. As the Daily Beast reported, “Your Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically.”

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There’s so much literary and labor history in this line! The movement of African Americans from South to North in the early 20th century was driven in part, as Nicholas Lehman has argued, by the invention of the mechanical cotton picker, the modernization of agriculture. But the music and poetry of blacks in America at this time also went through a “modernization” process in the sense of joining larger forces in literary history. See Houston Baker’s Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance for more on that.

Palmer Hayden water color.

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A line from Elvie Thomas’s “Motherless Child Blues”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmj23UrVF80

The effect here, as in Du Bois’s use of uncited African American folk music in his The Souls of Black Folk, is to create a sense of almost ghostly wonder in the reader’s imagination: what are these words? who are these voices?

See John Jeremiah Sullivan’s excellent article in the New York Times in April of 2014 for more on Elvie’s story.

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Indeed it is. Genius has an actual Education Department that works with teachers and professors to use the site in the classroom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIe-ctqVMrM

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It should be noted that 33 1/3 series very much allows for this style of rock criticism. One book in the series is almost entirely memoir, Colin Meloy’s Let It Be.

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An elegant yet grounded definition of cultural criticism, or “critical love,” I think. And the cool thing is I feel like I’ve had that kind of conversation with Pete over beers and fire.

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An important orientation. These are tools for discovery not discovery itself.

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Park was indeed a progressive at the time–he and other sociologists at Chicago were fascinated by issues of immigration and migration and how racial and ethnic minorities would successfully integrate into American society. But of course his views, which largely advocated for assimilation, are now considered . I don’t think this kind of ever receding horizon of progressivism excuses TNR, but it’s certainly part of the history of these ideas.

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With some highly visible exceptions like the publication of excerpts of The Bell Curve. More on the legacy of race at TNR here.http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120884/new-republics-legacy-race

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