I made the mistake of looking at More Deleted Comments from White Readers on the United Black America website this morning. The question at the end, from the author, was, What's your comeback to these comments? My first instinct was none. Absolutely no comeback - just compassion....
I finally picked up Terry Eagleton's Ideology and started reading. I checked his book out something like 13 times before i bought my own. The first thing that struck me is that there is really no single definition of ideology. Lovely - 224 pages of...
It's week 10 of a 12 week quarter (if you include finals week as a week - it's 11 of instruction). And, as happens with every quarter, the madness is ensuing and we are all becoming frazzled. This is not a complaint. Really. It's simply the...
I could not be prouder of my students this week. This entire quarter has been about building up the tools to speak about the 'veil' and the War on Terror. What struck me, after i was asked to teach the class, is that most of the...
Our department had a Climate and Diversity Retreat today. A few things on what that is, first: As neoliberal restructuring continues to erode the academy, and particularly, as the academy (in the U.S.) continues to whiten at extraordinary rates through the erasure of loan and grant programs...