Disclaimer: Dear white feminists, this post is in keeping with my organizational background. I do an analysis of media organizations and not, say, you and your friends, your individual experiences, or of tweets. You are welcome to conduct that analysis but you will not find it here. Children are sacred. They are off-limits for behaviorsRead More “Did White Feminists Ignore Attacks on Quvenzhané Wallis? That’s An Empirical Question”
More “Post-Racist” Debate with Org Theory
Fabio continues to defend his position that ours is a post-racist society. As I say in my comments below, Fabio has a peculiar tension. He is trying to reconcile a claim of post-racism which, by definition, is dichotomous (something is either post or it is not) with an argument that appears to be most committedRead More “More “Post-Racist” Debate with Org Theory”
“A Letter From Birmingham Jail” Was an Op-Ed: Teaching Voice & Social Justice
That’s how I now start my talk on social justice, voice, and opinion writing: “A young preacher wrote a letter in a Birmingham jail. It was published in the New York Sunday Post, in part, the following week. That letter from Martin Luther King Jr. has gone on to have quite an impact. Thats anRead More ““A Letter From Birmingham Jail” Was an Op-Ed: Teaching Voice & Social Justice”
Higher Education Ideology Wars: Who Is The “Slave”?
When Emory University president, James Wagner, made a plea for restraint in contentious debates about the future of higher education he appealed to history. The history he chose to appeal to is shocking. Building on the U.S.’s “three-fifths” compromise, which famously enshrined blacks as 3/5 of a person into the legal and cultural coda ofRead More “Higher Education Ideology Wars: Who Is The “Slave”?”
Outgrowing Your Social Media
When I first joined anything that might today be called a social media site I did so as a private person living in a particular experience: working 9-to-5, navigating messy relationships, and writing about them and through them as a semi-anonymous avatar. Years later I became something akin to public, my work consumed the entireRead More “Outgrowing Your Social Media”
Who’s Afraid of Post-Racist?
I called your attention to the following post at orgtheory.net a few weeks ago. At the time I took issue with the construction of Fabio’s argument and used the opportunity to call, again, for some critical interrogation of race in organizational theory. Fabio has returned to defend his original post and so I’ve decided toRead More “Who’s Afraid of Post-Racist?”
Rationalization of Higher Education: We’re All Bureaucrats Now
I have been working on a project with a good friend and mentor about the rationalization of higher education. It has been a joy. I am less happy with the survey I did as part of the preparation for this project. I had read most of this literature over the past few years. This wasRead More “Rationalization of Higher Education: We’re All Bureaucrats Now”
Race, Bureaucracy, Data, and MOOCs
Two things made this drive-by post happen. First, Eric Cantor is continuing a long tradition among many in the conservative Republican party by calling for the end of federal investment in social science research. Second, a tweep asked me: Both got me thinking about how important data has been to black social movements. It mayRead More “Race, Bureaucracy, Data, and MOOCs”
Degrees of Gender
I’ve had a project on gender and for-profits for a few months now. This paper is currently under review in a later format. I will also be presenting some of the ideas set forth in this paper at SSS this year with preliminary data from my research with for-profit students. A few images: The IntroRead More “Degrees of Gender”
What’s In A Name? Robert Lee Mitchell III and Arrianna Marie Coleman
Last week I logged into to Twitter to see two friends and colleagues in a debate about prestige and grades. I asked them, incredulously, who cared about grades in graduate school? I am not just in higher education but I study it. And, I can tell you that grades must be achieved but they are,Read More “What’s In A Name? Robert Lee Mitchell III and Arrianna Marie Coleman”