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Sarah Churchwell [1970-0] American
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Educator


Sarah Bartlett Churchwell is an American-born academic who is the Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London, UK. She is known for her expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction. 

History, Legal, Music

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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. Music
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. History
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
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'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.
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There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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. Legal
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Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.
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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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