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...push for a slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually served as a balm for the historical wound. Critics point out that space on the Mall will rapidly run out if we construct a monument for every crime that western society has committed on its rise to hegemony...
Insofar as this is true, whiteness studies has very little to offer academic, not because "white trash" cannot be an interesting area of study, but because, as West told me, "[t]he whole construct of white trash, which is just as arbitrary and can be just as vicious an any other construct, is what it means to be a particular kind of American, but white American." In other words, people who may be called "white trash" are different from other impoverished members of society only because they are white, but they are not more indicative of white culture, or American...
Intercontinental plans to construct a seven-story building behind Grendel's, housing a 10,000 square foot parking area, three floors of retail space and a dozen luxury condominium units...
...updated, the weight rooms need to be moved out of the basement into a cooler and more spacious area and the volleyball teams and basketball aficionados need separate courts. If the building's architectural structure does not allow for these renovations, then we implore the University to construct a new building...
...everything is style: every kind of image comes to us packaged in terms that inexorably turn into conventions. He was antinuance, antiheroism, antiexistentialist. With good humor and icy elegance, coupled with a genuine liking for his low-art or no-art sources in American vernacular, Lichtenstein was able to construct an art that approached real monumentality on the foundation of images that bien pensant taste regarded as trash...