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 adore Whoopi. Ever since I saw her Direct From Broadway show on HBO many years ago. I haven’t seen the 2oth anniversary version, though I would really like to. In the orignal HBO special, her character Fontaine, who is a junkie, goes to the Anne… Read more
Add this to McIntosh’s list of examples of white privilege: Walking into a test without studying and scoring at least a C simply because you’ve had an education that teaches you to read and… 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
Voxygen.net 5.0 ©1996-2010
Wordpress Theme: ©The Open Learning Centre
Laura Sells -- Laura@voxygen.net
Last updated: December 25, 2009 @ 12:44 pm