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More on privilege

TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSOR
by Michael Kimmel
THIS BREEZE AT MY BACK
To run or walk into a strong headwind is to understand the power of nature. You set your jaw in a squared grimace, your eyes are slits against the wind, and you breathe with a fierce determination. And still you make so little […]

Are you kidding me?

Wendy and I were watching television last night when we happened upon an advertisement for a new CW show, “Aliens in America.”
Here’s the synopsis from the CW site:
“Justin Tolchuk is a sensitive, lanky 16-year-old just trying to make it through the social nightmare of high school in Medora, Wisconsin, with the help of his […]

AACRAO Consulting

The re-designed AACRAO Consulting (AC) website is now up and running. The site uses WordPress as its content management system (cms). The AC site is set up just like a blog with posts in reverse chronological order and pages for static content.

AACRAO Consulting:
AACRAO Consulting is dedicated to providing results-oriented, best practice solutions that […]

Corvallis, Oregon fireworks

Fireworks + slow shutter speed = neat effects. Here a few photographs of fireworks taken from two undisclosed locations here in Corvallis, Oregon…

Tags: Corvallis, eric stoller, Oregon, photographs

The Meritocracy Myth

I’ve been mulling over a few subjects that have been making appearances on my site as of late. The subjects are white privilege and the meritocracy myth a.k.a. “pull yourself up by the bootstraps and inequality vanishes as soon as the laces are tied.”
I’ve written about white privilege and the meritocracy myth before but […]