I once set out to write a book of southern aphorisms. It was going to be a serious treatment of (mostly) black (uniquely) southern “mother wit” as philosophy. Then, grad school and so on and so on. If I were to undertake a project today I would start with a favorite handed down to meRead More “A Nasty Piece of Cornbread: Chait, Coates, and White Progressivism”
Monthly Archives: March 2014
How To Make A Pundit
Why would anyone want to make a pundit? *rim shot* With that out of the way, I have thought about this a great deal. So, apparently, have others. Today Jamelle Bouie fired off a series of tweets about race, gender, stratification and media expansion. My friend (and tireless, thankless champion) Sarah Jaffe has prodded meRead More “How To Make A Pundit”
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 remove triggering material when it doesn’t “directly” contribute to learning goals.” One example given is Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” for its colonialism trigger. ThisRead More “The Trigger Warned Syllabus”
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 week that mental conversation will be thinking a great deal about white violence and black (anti) wealth creation. Look, I teach stratification and race andRead More “The Article That Shut Me Up: Making Strange the Familiarity of White Violence”