LAUNDRY DAYS

The first apartment I moved into came with a broken laundry machine. Every Saturday morning, I had to go to the laundromat to wash my clothes. While initially frustrating and time-consuming, it became my “third space” and, ultimately, something I looked forward to. I would spend those three hours annotating whatever I was reading. “Laundry Days” is a collection of essays that have resulted from those reads and includes both economic studies I've conducted and literary and historical essays I've crafted. 

Entries

1: Measuring Antitrust Pressure: Second Requests and Technology Sector Labor Outcomes

2: Exclusionary Inclusion, Inclusionary Exclusion: Race and Asianness in the Cold War Era

3: Visibly Invisible: Ellison’s Invisible Man and Wake Work

4: Necessary Conditions: Refugees, Nationalism, and the State of Exception

5: Book Review: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)  by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

6: Always Incomplete:  Fugitivity, Refusal, and Hapticality in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's Home

7: Scenes from Nowhere: Refugees, Arbitrary Rule, and Carceral Logics

8: Carceral Enjoyment: Fungibility, Disposability, and Surplus Populations in Chester Himes’ The Real Cool Killers 

9: Barbed Wire Dialectics:  Legal Constructions of Race in Dred Scott v. Sandford

10: Reopening the Past: The Battle of Algiers and the Invention of Decolonization

11: Plug Out: How to actually get off of social media

12: Satyajit Ray's Devi: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Censorship of an Indian Art Film

Anticipated Entries:

-- Locked In?: Noncompetes and Job Mobility