Yale University Full Version New Videos of The Halloween Email Protest
Email From Erika Christakis: Dressing Yourselves, email to Silliman College (Yale) Students on Halloween Costumes Oct 30, 2015 Dear Sillimanders: Nicholas and I have heard from a number of students who were frustrated by the mass email sent to the student body about appropriate Halloweenwear. Ive always found Halloween an interesting embodiment of more general adult worries about young people. As some of you may be aware, I teach a class on The Concept of the Problem Child, and I was speaking with some of my students yesterday about the ways in which Halloween traditionally a day of subversion for children and young people is also an occasion for adults to exert their control. (portion excluded do to length restriction) It seems to me that we can have this discussion of costumes on many levels: we can talk about complex issues of identify, free speech, cultural appropriation, and virtue signalling. But I wanted to shar
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