Assistant Professor Alanna Hickey describes how 19th-century books with humanitarian aims can hide serious abuses of power, and asks what happens when institutions acknowledge that crucial knowledge production happens outside their walls?
The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; audio production by Robert Scaramuccia '19.
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