On NPR’s tumblr today came a quote from a story I’d subconsciously blocked from my twitter feed last week: So when the most influential black woman in the world, armed with degrees from some of the best institutions in the world, names Beyonce, a singer best known for a song called “Bootylicious,” as someone she aspiresRead More “Michelle Obama, Beyonce, and Wonder Woman”
Tag Archives: Public Sociology
Public Intellectual Goodness from Friends
Today my twitter-league, Rhonda Ragsdale, launched the public interface of her research agenda on historic black towns. It’s a wonderful project that may be of particular interest to my many folks in digital humanities. What Rhonda says about the project: Historically black towns established after the Civil War andRead More “Public Intellectual Goodness from Friends”
The Economics of PhDing
From GenomeWeb comes a summary of Lee Skallerup Bessette’s post on Insider Higher Ed about one of the hidden expenses of academic life: the conference debt. This post started as a twitter conversation, by the way. That’s reason 3, 196 that academics should be on twitter. Lee Skallerup Bessette at Inside Higher Ed‘s CollegeRead More “The Economics of PhDing”
Add White Kids and Stir is Not Good Education Policy
I commend the Times for at least acknowledging the anniversary of Brown v. Board this week, but I take some issue with the conclusions opinion writer David L. Kirp makes. A quick conversation with the essay: AMID the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we’ve turned away from one toolRead More “Add White Kids and Stir is Not Good Education Policy”
The Case of The Chronicle of Higher Education
I had about as much intention of rehashing this as I ever have any intention of buying generic breakfast cereal. But unlike King Vitamin some things beg to be reconsidered. After a rather unseemly lack of professional judgement led the Chronicle of Higher Education to defend Naomi Schaefer Riley’s attack on black studies, in general,Read More “The Case of The Chronicle of Higher Education”
Tweeting with CHE
What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been…
When I pulled off the highway during rush hour traffic to type out a response to Schaefer Riley’s attack on my iPad* I was being self-serving. I was serving MY indignation, my anger, my disappointment. I hit publish and within an hour it became clear that I was not the only one indignant, angry, orRead More “What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been…”
The Inferiority of Blackness as a Subject
I am writing this very quickly while on the side of Interstate 20. I am also struggling mightily to not use my colorful repertoire of insanely rhythmic and appropriate curse words. Thank me later. Today The Chronicle of Higher Education published a blog entry from Naomi Schaefer Riley entitled “The Most Persuasive Case for EliminatingRead More “The Inferiority of Blackness as a Subject”