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Why do I have green eyes?

~LS~ — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:37:00 +0000

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

Whoopi and Disney

~LS~ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:25:25 +0000

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

White Privilege — An example

~LS~ — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:06:00 +0000

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

Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

~LS~ — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:08:00 +0000

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

The Skeleton Key

~LS~ — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:51:00 +0000

I don't like scary movies, but the Skeleton Key was fun to watch because it was based outside of New Orleans. What a fabulous cast -- Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Kate Hudson. The movie wasn't very scary though, thank goodness. I love Gena Rowlands, so... Read more

The Quiet American

~LS~ — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:51:00 +0000

Listening: Zwan, Mary Star of the Sea Cirque Du Soleil, Dralion Last night Steve and I went to see the Quiet American. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a really high rating and they were right. The movie was good; it was disturbing and haunting and very... Read more

The N-word on the View; Elisabeth and Whoopi go at it

~LS~ — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:29:00 +0000

I love The View; it's a guilty pleasure. I love Whoopi. Whoopi and Elisabeth got into it over use of the N-word. You can see the video of the exchange here on Us Magazine. Elisabeth, of course, cries, wearing her white guilt on her sleeve. She... Read more

The Jena Six

~LS~ — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:15:00 +0000

At Jena High School, students of different races customarily seldom sat together. Black students traditionally sat on bleachers near the auditorium, while white students sat under a large shade tree, referred to as the "white tree," in the center of... Read more

Tea party protest signs and some other stuff

~LS~ — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:01:26 +0000

We've all seen the tea bag party's stupid, misspelled protest signs these days. No surprise there. We all immediately recognize the painful hypocrisy of those misspelled signs that demand we make English America's "offical" language. We all also... Read more

Sweet Honey in the Rock and Some Political Thoughts

~LS~ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:56:00 +0000

Sweet Honey in the Rock is one of my all-time favorite musical groups. I got to thinking about Sweet Honey the other day when I was donating my clothing and I wrote about the politics of second-hand clothing. In learning about what actually happens... Read more