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”
Tag Archives: Digital Sociologies
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?”
Towards A Critical Org Theory
Contemporary stratification scholars are unlikely to deny the claim that organizations are the primary site of the production and allocation of inequality in modern societies. Although there is considerable consensus on this point, until recently the use of organizational data to study inequality was rare, due at least in part to the plentiful individual-level dataRead More “Towards A Critical Org Theory”
There Is No Race in Organizations
I continue to work on a comparative case of organizational structures in higher education. T’is what I do. Central to my theorizing and empirical work is that organizations reproduce racial, gender, and class inequality. You would think that goes without saying but race is seriously under-theorized and researched in organizational studies. For a long time,Read More “There Is No Race in Organizations”
Inequality and Organizations: Finally Someone Speaking My Language!
I have talked here before about how shocked I am that org theory so rarely engages ideas of inequality. I mean, we even call structural racism institutional racism. The word institutional is right there! Why so little theorizing about how institutions reproduce inequality or how they can be disrupted to, in turn, disrupt inequality? I’mRead More “Inequality and Organizations: Finally Someone Speaking My Language!”
My Latest at UVenus: Risk and Ethics of Public Scholarship
I’ve been asked frequently enough about my public work to know that there is a great deal of fear out there. People pull me aside at talks. They send me private messages on twitter. They email me from non .edu email addresses. I’ve written about that fear here before as it pertains to women. IRead More “My Latest at UVenus: Risk and Ethics of Public Scholarship”
Digital Humanities: Egalitarian or Just A New Elite?
That’s the question I posed back during #twittergate. I refuse to stop using that tongue-in-cheek name out of pure, unadulterated spite at this point. The intentional myopia about what was always a snarky take on our part of the non-controversy controversy to the exclusion of the ideas we put forth is indicative of what sparkedRead More “Digital Humanities: Egalitarian or Just A New Elite?”
Them’s That Got Shall Have: Criminalizing Parents Who Steal Free Education
Every parent wants what is best for his or her children but only some parents are going to jail for trying to provide their kids with the best education money can’t buy. As schools across the country are gearing up for the start of another school year, cash-strapped school districts are responding with threats toRead More “Them’s That Got Shall Have: Criminalizing Parents Who Steal Free Education”
Reckless Theorizing Without A Net: Women, Blogging, and Power
Two things prompted the rampant display of theorizing you’re about to see unfold in real time. One was a chance conversation with a group of powerful, accomplished women academics. The second was an article that came across my twitter feed about women bloggers. The conversation with the women academics was not too uncommon for meRead More “Reckless Theorizing Without A Net: Women, Blogging, and Power”