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Tim Wise has written a new essay that critiques the racist rhetoric that’s being furiously spread around the interwebs in the wake of flooding in Iowa - “Adding Insult to Injury: Race, Disaster and the Calculus of Comparative Suffering.” It’s a deeper analysis that is very similar in context to my post on “Comparing […]
Oregon State University leaders have announced a new financial aid initiative that in its first school year, 2008-09, will enable a full 10 percent of the Oregonian students who attend OSU to do so free of charge.
The Bridge to Success Program will pool federal resources with funds from the Oregon Opportunity Grant, the Campaign […]
The 30 Wealthiest Americans list was calculated by each person’s total wealth as a percentage of the economy of the time.
Do you see any commonalities among the people in this list?
Tags: Class, gender, Race
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 […]
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 […]
Here is the audio recording from bell hooks‘ talk at Lewis & Clark College from February 1, 2006 [88 MB MP3].
Tags: ableism, accessibility, audio, Class, discrimination, diversity, feminism, gender, Higher Education, LGBT, patriarchy, Race, racism, sexism, Social Justice, stereotypes, white privilege
Angela Davis was the keynote speaker for a recent social justice conference at Oregon State University. The Your Voice, Your Conference: Awareness, Solidarity, and Action explored “how systems of oppression impact our lives and communities.”
I think I have a social justice crush on Angela Davis. More than 1,000 people attended her talk at Oregon […]
I believe that MLK Day is not a day off, but a day on.
Dr. King was an amazing social justice activist. He worked against racism, classism, and poverty. He was anti-war and pro-peace. I feel re-energized on MLK Day.
His words on why he was opposed to the war in Vietnam are extremely […]
UW Regents consider race, income for admissions policy (via the Green Bay Press-Gazette):
A proposed rewrite of freshman admissions policy for the University of Wisconsin System would de-emphasize class rank and give greater weight to nonacademic factors such as race and income.
I think it’s wonderful that the University of Wisconsin System and its Board of […]
Kai Chang has written the best critique of “political correctness” that I’ve ever read.
Simply put, the great “PC” cliché, as commonly deployed in mainstream discourse, is cultural propaganda designed to befuddle and misdirect while defending the current power structure. All politics deal with power relations, and in the debate over America’s alleged climate of […]