This weekend’s reading list is brief. Thesis duties abound and, while brushing up on my weekend reading through the week has helped me disengage from the research, I can rarely afford to disengage now. What follows is a small collection of whatever I read this week when I refused to thesis. It’s a smart bet that weekend reading will be light to non-existent for the next month or so, dear readers. If you find yourself itching for a fix, mosey on over to The New Inquiry‘s Features page and look for Big Sunday Reading. There’s bound to be lots of good stuff.

• The Sound of TED: A Case for Distaste.
• Black Culture and the Culture of Poverty are not the Same Thing.
• Hollywood and WWII: The Kings of Propaganda.
• “This is when things got weird. And ugly.“
• Thank You for Shopping, Customer Loyalty Programs.
• The Perils of Private Welfare: Job-Based Benefits and American Inequality.
• Between the Ivory Tower and the Assembly Line.
• Leave None to Tell the Other Story, on Rwanda under the RPF.
• A Monument to Exclusion.
• Teaching the Camera to See My Skin.
• The Problem with False Feminism, on Disney’s Frozen.
• Why the Real-Life Barbie Won’t Last.
• Dear Television takes on Broad City.
• Adjuncting Love.