{"id":94,"date":"2015-05-04T21:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:35:53","slug":"black-politics-public-intellect-and-rigor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Black Politics, Public Intellect and Rigor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/205905\/6-scholars-who-are-reimagining-black-politics\">&#8220;6 Scholars Who Are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcReimagining Black Politics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122:\u00c2\u00a0There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a world of urgent discourse beyond Dyson, West, and Gates.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From\u00c2\u00a0Robin D.G. Kelley:<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t play pundit because I&#8217;m not interested in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinfluencing popular opinion&#8217; if it means sacrificing analytical rigor. Our job as intellectuals is to ask the hard questions, interrogate inherited categories, take nothing as self-evident, and go to the root of the problem. That includes the work of addressing contemporary social crises. I&#8217;m concerned that if we persist in conflating relevance with popular, the form, or rather the forum, will become our main concern.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;6 Scholars Who Are \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcReimagining Black Politics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122:\u00c2\u00a0There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a world of urgent discourse beyond Dyson, West, and Gates.&#8221; From\u00c2\u00a0Robin D.G. Kelley: I don&#8217;t play pundit because I&#8217;m not interested in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinfluencing popular opinion&#8217; if it means sacrificing analytical rigor. Our job as intellectuals is to ask the hard questions, interrogate inherited categories, take nothing as self-evident, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourse","category-ethics","category-politics","category-public-intellect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}