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Jamil Smith

  • Faculty Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
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Faculty lecturer, @UCBerkeley Journalism. Formerly: @RollingStone, et. al. Writer, editor, producer, audio host. Thinking about identity, politics, and power.

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Senior Editor, New Republic. Host of INTERSECTION, a podcast about how all the ways we identify come together.

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Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded

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By Jamil Smith
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‘Nolan makes an argument that the methods developed for an enemy abroad do not stay abroad.’ Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy I had not read The Odyssey since I was a student. Stories change when we return to them later in life, or perhaps we are the ones who change. Christopher Nolan’s film made me want to find out what I had missed. More specifically, it made me want to read Emily Wilson’s translation. Her scathing essay about the film nearly stopped me from buying her translation.
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The US agency that fights workplace discrimination just voted to stop measuring it

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By Jamil Smith
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‘The federal government wants to stop keeping the count it created to tell whether employers obey the law.’ Photograph: Mariam Zuhaib/AP Workplace discrimination isolates. When a Black manager is passed over for a promotion, or a pregnant worker is quietly sidelined, they are left with a polite excuse and a lingering suspicion. They cannot see the company-wide spreadsheet. They cannot know if others are hitting the same invisible wall.
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The US agency that fights workplace discrimination just voted to stop measuring it

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By Jamil Smith
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Workplace discrimination isolates. When a Black manager is passed over for a promotion, or a pregnant worker is quietly sidelined, they are left with a polite excuse and a lingering suspicion. They cannot see the company-wide spreadsheet. They cannot know if others are hitting the same invisible wall. For 60 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has kept a spreadsheet of its own: an annual demographic snapshot compiled from employer reports.
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