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Jacob Pagano

The Language that Drinks Blood: Toni Morrison Reminds Us Hate Speech Is Violence

As the nation grapples with violent white supremacy and the disturbing fact that the President appears to embolden it, a debate about the…

Aug 9, 2019

The Language that Drinks Blood: Toni Morrison Reminds Us Hate Speech Is Violence

Aug 9, 2019

Jacob Pagano

Dear Mr. President (and Mr. West): A Nationalist is Not a Christian

To a roaring crowd at a campaign rally last Monday, October 22, President Donald Trump proclaimed what we all already knew; “I’m a…

Oct 30, 2018

Dear Mr. President (and Mr. West): A Nationalist is Not a Christian

Oct 30, 2018

Jacob Pagano

African Students Encounter Institutional Racism at a Top Chinese University, Raising Urgent…

China’s Universities are now the top destination for Africans studying abroad, but reports of on-campus racism campus raise urgent…

Oct 19, 2018

African Students Encounter Institutional Racism at a Top Chinese University, Raising Urgent…

Oct 19, 2018

Jacob Pagano

Justice Department’s Indictment of a Chinese Officer Sets a Precedent, Leaves Intelligence…

When Yanjun Xu, the Deputy Secretary General of the the Nanjing Science and Technology Association, traveled to Belgium on April 1, 2018…

Oct 11, 2018

Justice Department’s Indictment of a Chinese Officer Sets a Precedent, Leaves Intelligence…

Oct 11, 2018

Jacob Pagano

When Christine Blasey Ford testifies against Brett Kavanaugh, consider Judith Butler’s theoretical…

On October 11, 1991, when Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had used…

Sep 22, 2018

When Christine Blasey Ford testifies against Brett Kavanaugh, consider Judith Butler’s theoretical…

Sep 22, 2018

Jacob Pagano

Nothing Real Can Be Threatened: Richard Avedon, Khalik Allah, and Communities of Portraiture

A camera is a weapon in some instances. In others, it is an extension of the caring eye.

Sep 19, 2018

Nothing Real Can Be Threatened: Richard Avedon, Khalik Allah, and Communities of Portraiture

Sep 19, 2018

Jacob Pagano

The best I can wish for you is bad luck: A Review of Myriam Gurba’s Mean

Every so often, we encounter a memoir which voices a narrative that, though lived and told by so many, has still not been heard in its…

Sep 17, 2018

The best I can wish for you is bad luck: A Review of Myriam Gurba’s Mean

Sep 17, 2018

Jacob Pagano

Songxi’s Siege: Remembering a Rural Chinese Village in WWII

The soldiers arrived at night, moving in two flanks along the thickly forested Eastern mountains and the shale-covered Western mountains…

Sep 2, 2018

Songxi’s Siege: Remembering a Rural Chinese Village in WWII

Sep 2, 2018

Jacob Pagano

Jacob Pagano

I write about stories where questions of social justice and human rights are urgent and our responses to them material.

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