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Anne's Reading (and Viewing) Notes towards Big Books of American Literature, Fall 2016

By Anne Dalke
May 14, 2016 - 18:28
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Bliss, Eula. "White Debt." The New York Times Magazine. December 2, 2015, http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html :
starts w/ the german word 'debt' = 'guilt';
works its way  through "privilege" ("private" + "law")
to "complacency" and "complicity"--and then back to "forgotten debt."
i buy this:
"whiteness is a system of social advantages that can be traced back to the advent of slavery...
not an identity but a moral problem." or, as Coates puts it,
"‘It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill, and, having pledged to charge no more,

Entering the Global Village: Is World Wide Web for People with Disabilities?

By Chewy Charis
May 13, 2016 - 06:48
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"Questions: why is it important that the web is accessible to people with disabilities? In short, why should we care? Then we can ask, in what ways is the internet inaccessible? What are some currently available technology to make computer and internet usage easier? What does accessibility even mean? Also, when we say people with disabilities, who do we include? Are there regulations around web accessibility? How clear and effective are they?