identity Archives - Andrew Blackman

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Untangling Untangling the Web by Aleks Krotoski

Untangling the Web is a timely and detailed account of how the internet is changing us, and what we can do about it. The book makes very good points about the different identities we have online, and also about the…

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Racial identification

Read a fascinating article in the Fall 2007 edition of the Du Bois Review. In an article “The New Latin Nation”, Alejandro Portes made the very interesing, and ironic, point that whereas in the past, much Mexican immigration to the…

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“Identity” by Milan Kundera

Warning: this review gives away the ending. There’s something intensely dissatisfying about stories that end “but it was all a dream and then she woke up.” Logically, I suppose there shouldn’t be. We accept that a story is made up,…