On April 30, Naomi Schaefer Riley published a piece, The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations, in the Brainstorm Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Her post was a vitriolic, acerbic personal attack on three young black women an...
I was recently treated to a very protracted Multi-Directional Leadership talk by Dr. James Anthony of the University of Washington. His assertion was that "anyone can be a leader" - you are not necessarily born a leader, you become one. I eyed him a bit...
Yesterday, a visiting scholar (while over beers) mentioned that Seattle doesn't remember its occupation and civil disobedience history. I interjected that it was not true, but that we have a fantastic project coming out of the University of Washington that is a collaboration between the...
I watched a friend deftly navigate the sticky waters of Holier Than Thou last night. He quietly and patiently smiled (beamed, really) as he listened to the Lesson to be Learned, and congratulated people for Figuring It Out. I was too tired to pretend to be...
Mabel Brezin writes: Identity is inextricable from the understanding of the self and is central to participation in meaningful patterns of social and political action...