Everyday Social Theory

Just one renegade sociologist's meandering through social theory and cultural critique

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Verso Books had a sale and clearly I couldn’t resist.

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Spring break for funsies reading

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It brings to mind books written, tattered and worn, books that gave words to something, a feeling, a sense of an injustice, books that, in giving us words, gave us the strength to go on. Feminism: how we pick each other up.

Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life p. 1 (via everydaysocialtheory)

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Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (p. 69)

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As silent witnesses, 'haunted' sites bring back to life ghosts of the people, places and events that together form our biographies."

Kusenbach, "The Go-Along as an Ethnographic Tool"

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New publication- Trayvon Revisited: Race, Fear, and Affect in the Death of Trayvon Martin. Out digitally on Sociological Forum in October and in print in December

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Reading Raymond Williams’ Structures of Feeling

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Hi! I would like to work with you on some projects.

Hey I'm currently overwhelmed with work and not in a place to take on new projects. However, I would love to know what you work on and where your theoretical interests lie!

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Judith Butler on Morality and biopolitics (Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly p. 196)

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Coffee-stained and acid touched; some poems die before they're written, swallowed by stomachs haunted by hunger- like uttering your piece will lead to starvation. Other times it's because our bodies know something we don't and they lie there in anticipation

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Judith Butler Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly, p. 21

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why do black people use you in the wrong context? such is "you ugly" instead of "you're ugly" I know u guys can differentiate, it's a nuisance

you a bitch

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It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.

So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.

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What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.

In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.

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This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.