Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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22 published records
01 / uncertainty
“I don’t know too much about . . . Well, I know that he’s a golfer, and I golf. But I don’t watch him, so overrated.”
02 / belief
“I think he is a character who works within his belief system as a character and does not fight back.”
03 / belief
“If a student asks a question, and the teacher can pivot and answer that student at that moment — there’s that quality of pivoting quickly that, I think, makes a really good teacher.”
04 / belief
“After Canada’s Truth in Reconciliation work, I think the Canadian universities’ Native American studies programs are growing.”
05 / belief
“In his film depiction of slavery, he wants to give more autonomy and more agency to Django. So in that case, I would say there’s a lot of accuracy, then.”
06 / belief
“Perhaps, but can most Americans tell the difference between doctrines of Calvinism, Lutheranism, Methodism, Episcopalian? I doubt it.”
07 / belief
“The conditions under which most children are raised — we think about even the ideal of two-income parents, one staying home, being with the children.”
08 / belief
“I would say the biggest inaccuracy is how close the depiction of the slave quarters was to the main house.”
09 / belief
“I think that’s true. Apparently, you’re seeing too many Transformers films. Though Hans Zimmer’s scores in many films — he’s very, very loud but also very good.”
10 / belief
“The best argument, I think — Coates’s argument a couple of years ago in the Atlantic was the best argument, which is that systematically property and value was taken away from the descendants from slave families and from the descendants of the enslaved around the country.”
11 / belief
“I think there hasn’t been a conversation yet about what happens in Paris and what happens in Silicon Valley.”
12 / belief
“I think about how to teach to thousands or tens of thousands rather than to the 20 people in the classroom.”
13 / evaluation
“One doesn’t want to talk very much about Manifest Destiny, but in fact, that is characteristic of the way we think about the 1840s.”
14 / evaluation
“I don’t know the data on whether more were bought and sold, but certainly the slave market and the slave economy was such that there was an infrastructure to support buying and selling on a regular basis.”
15 / evaluation
“Well, the “but” is that it’s romanticizing that, as typical of films about slavery — and I think Django could be criticized for this, too — only one heroic enslaved person is given agency when everybody else sort of falls away.”
16 / evaluation
“Because the deep moral and ethical dilemma provoked by the Fugitive Slave Act was that an individual had to choose between their personal morals and helping a fugitive slave escape and being criminalized for that very act.”
17 / prediction
“I think the question is, how does the framework of examining the Native American history — how is that going to conflict with the paradigms for studying black history?”
18 / evaluation
“There’s an Alfred North Whitehead quote that he said: “Sometimes I give a student an A or B instead of a C or a D because they’ll earn it 20 years from now.”
19 / prediction
“I’m not as much an expert on change over time. I expect that there will always be songs from movies.”
20 / preference
“. I’m reading Ted Chiang’s short stories right now. I’ve read Neal Stephenson. There’s great stuff.”
21 / evaluation
“These depictions of Native Americans were not accurate and were stereotypical and were deeply problematic, but at least they were present because the Western was a dominant form on television and film.”
22 / evaluation
“From the very beginning, Skip thought what I brought to the field when I started working with him, and when I began to transition from an American literature scholar to an African American literature scholar, was that I was trained in the very books that most African American writers in the 19th century were themselves reading.”