Rebecca Ruth Gould is Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus and director of the ERC-funded project, "Global Literary Theory." She is on Twitter @rrgould.
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In the heat of argument, too little has been said about the implications of defining racism for legal and...
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Expanding the meaning of marriage beyond heterosexual relations captures the spirit of the times but misses the...
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Could Singaporeans of the future do a better job at making democracy a reality than America’s elected leaders have...
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Published in: HomeFelon voting rights and democracy
Convicted felons continue to be barred from voting in the US, with severe consequences for their rehabilitation and...