Posting will be light for a few days, but I give you this gem from “Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter” by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia […]
privilege / racism
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Dominating the Conversation
I had a nice planned post for today – until I saw this post from Resist Racism. It quite deftly meanders from the merely annoying (and often invisible) […]
racism / sexism
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Resistance
A male co-worker of mine called a breast-feeding co-worker a “heifer” today. To be fair, he maintains that he said “Bessie” instead; I don’t think that makes a […]
discrimination / prejudice / racism / sexism
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Language Keeps Us Apart
We often teach and learn that prejudice and discrimination are overt. And too often, they are. Other times, however, prejudice lives in our unspoken assumptions – and even […]
racism / resource / sociology
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A Class Divided
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html This is one of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE’s history. It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered […]
politics / racism / sociology
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Passing the Post-Racial Final
It’s nice that Jonah Goldberg, George Will, and many other conservatives are publicly supporting President Obama. It is, really. They’ve apparently just noticed the stuff I’ve seen all […]