Rafael Walker is an assistant professor of English at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His book Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. He’s working on another book on mixed-race identity in American culture.
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
The great writer has been exiled from the Norton anthology.
The Review | Essay
What the scholarship on biraciality tells us about politics now.
The Review | Opinion
They behaved like academics. That’s a good thing.
The Review | Opinion
The Supreme Court’s ruling doesn’t need to be a setback for social justice.
The Review | Opinion
If service isn’t made more fair, people will stop doing it.
The Review | Essay
Rejecting cross-cultural representation is simplistic and dangerous.
Advice
Why academe needs a bill of rights that spells out what faculty advisers must do for their graduate students on the job market.
The Review
Statements of sympathy for the victims of our increasingly routine massacres aren’t enough.
The Review
Empathetic gestures erase the people they’re meant to comfort.
The Review
We don’t do our undergraduates any favors by shielding them from the views of the big bad conservatives beyond the ivory tower.
