Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Bartlett Churchwellis an American-born academic who is the Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is known for her expertise in twentieth and twenty-first century fiction. She regularly appears on British television and radio and has also judged several literary prizes, including the Women'sPrize for Fiction and the David Cohen Prize for Literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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intended kids pioneering spoilt
'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.
people want entitlement
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
confused passion frustration
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
mistake identity facts
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
sesame-street teach streets
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
challenges mind might
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
racism slavery way
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
given textbooks
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
continue dismiss distracted resentment
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
power source tiger woods
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.
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The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.