I’ve been reading the Stuff White People Like blog during my free minutes. As we’ve been talking about how to use categories in your writing, this blog is able to make some interesting social commentary by compartmentalizing the tastes of a “non-race”–white people. And the whole game of categorizing interests is hilarious.
Race is a more [...]
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Stuff White People Like.
Posted in race, tagged race, stuff white people like on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A word’s meaning.
Posted in definition, race, tagged chris rock, def poetry, definition, julian curry, nigger, race on February 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today, in the land of COMP I, we began talking about techniques to define words and the power held by those who are able to influence the connotations words take on. This eventually moved to a discussion of the word “nigger” and how it is understood: is it a word that can be reappropriated [...]
Notes on difference in the classroom.
Posted in difference, ethnicity, race, tagged difference, ethnicity, race, sexuality on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What sort of “teacher” role do you assume most often in the classroom? A coach, guide, mentor, ghost, anonymous autonomous dictator, demagogue, dialectician, wizard, guerrilla pedagogue, trifling pedant, or….?
Last semester I think I attempted the role of guide. This meant that I would usually lead a class with a brief introduction to the [...]
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