It's Week 10 of the quarter. The students are panicking. We've spent the quarter preparing them for a paper that, if they've done the lead up assignments well, the paper is done and already written. If they haven't, we've given them enough prompts that they...
The news came the other night, as i finished up: Aristide was finally granted a passport renewal. After 7 years in exile in South Africa, Jean-Bertrand Aristide is looking homeward again. On February 4th, the World Federation of Democratic Youth, an anti-imperialist movement that has been...
…the shared condition of precariousness leads not to reciprocal recognition, but to a specific exploitation of targeted populations, of lives that are not quite lives, cast as “destructible” and “ungrievable.” Such populations are “lose-able” or can be forfeited, precisely because they are framed as being...
Since the earthquake, i have avoided a subject that makes me (and really most people) terribly uncomfortable: racism. I thought i might write about it in my generals, but got cold feet as it seemed that i could read about race, racism, critical race theory...
Well, now we know what Clinton has been up to these past several months in his mission to "build back better": December 4, 2010 - February 6, 2011 The Clinton Presidential Center celebrates the people and culture of Haiti as the nation recovers from the devastating...