Category Archives: Social Change
Code Switch: Students’ Choice
National Public Radio presents several shows and podcasts of immense help in understanding issues of race, ethnicity, culture and identity, among the best being CODE SWITCH: Race and Identity Remixed. This summer a dozen graduate students in my course Race, … Continue reading
Students “Write” Race and Diversity
This post indexes several student projects on race and diversity I’ll feature on this site, partly as examples to other students about what their peers have done…and what they could do, too. Of the first three below, two came from … Continue reading
Embracing and Fearing the Void: The Root of Racism
James Baldwin once called America a nation “dedicated to the death of the paradox,” a people particularly fond of the straight-forward answer: the Yes-No, the Black-White, the Just-The-Facts, Ma’am, reply. Which could make reading Baldwin particularly difficult. As Raoul Peck, … Continue reading