The Trigger Warned Syllabus
Apparently universities are issuing guidelines to help professors consider adding “trigger warnings” to syllabi for “racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism, and other issues of privilege and oppression,” and to … Continue reading
The Article That Shut Me Up: Making Strange the Familiarity of White Violence
That’s harder than it sounds. I’d tell you not to comment but I’ll be so busy having a conversation in my mind that it won’t matter if you do. This … Continue reading
I Was Born For This: Breaking My Silence on Black Colleges
I have a few writing rules. I do not write when I am angry and I do not write about HBCUs. The former may go without saying the but the … Continue reading
Rationalization of Higher Education: Working Draft
I have talked a hole in the ozone about the theoretical approaches to privatization, higher education, and inequality. Gaye Tuchman and I took up some preliminary work on a synthesized … Continue reading
Faulty Analogies or Faulty White Logics?
In “White Logic, White Methods” several essays address the false rationality of social science that is a thin veneer for whiteness. You can rationalize away all disparate impacts of institutional … Continue reading
At UW-Madison: Race/Class/Gender and the Credentialing Organization
First, I’d like to accept responsibility for climate change. It seems everywhere I travel this week, snow follows. At least this week I am at UW-Madison where snow is evidence … Continue reading
Put A Ring or a Diploma on It? Bless Princeton Mom’s Heart
I actually get where Princeton Mom is coming from. I mean, I do teach a class called, “class, status and power” and Princeton Mom may think she’s talking about marriage … Continue reading
