Tomorrow is the last day of summer school. This month in the TBR Summer Institute has been intense and intensive. I had an interesting racialized moment in class yesterday. One of the students, Benjamin, figured out that everyone in class had… Read more
I’m contemplating teaching Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in my Introduction to Humanities class this semester, particularly Chapter 4 (“The Typographic Mind”). I don’t feel like scanning the chapter and I couldn’t find a pdf or doc… Read more
I decided that I didn’t like the way that Julia Wood is handling race in her textbook for Gender and Comm. Actually, well, I decided that years ago. So I’m asking the students to read Peggy MacIntosh’s article, “White Privilege.” It’s very old, but… Read more
Today was a busy day in the Sells-Jaros household. Willow took her first driving lesson. Yikes. And I facilitated my first dialogue on race. These are exciting times. * The semester is almost over. I have to grade speeches and then I have to… Read more
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