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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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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 [...]

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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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