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Lashon hora, microaggression, and the academic asshole
There are three forms of social aggression that can infect an academic department or college and be hard to root out.1 I have been mulling these for a while and have only half-formed thoughts; it’s probably best to think of the following as a tentative classification. I hope to have time to discuss possible responses […]
Odds and ends to begin spring break
For the first time I can recall, my children and I are on spring break the same week, which given that we are talking the coordination of three different systems, is Spring Break Convergence. It’s great to have our college junior home from the Northeast; on the downside, we cannot complain about the weather for […]
Holding people accountable
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ column today is both a reminder and good discussion of the difference between labeling individuals as racists (or non-racists) and understanding that our history is one filled with racism: The idea that racism lives in the heart of particularly evil individuals, as opposed to the heart of a democratic society, is reinforcing to […]
Robert Francis Engs, 1943-2013
Historian Robert Engs died on Monday at the age of 69. He wrote Freedom’s First Generation (1979) about the post-Civil War Black community in and around Hampton, Virginia, and Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited (1999), about Hampton Institute and Samuel Chapman Armstrong. He was also a member of my dissertation committee and really the only faculty […]
Trend newspaper stories becoming quite common
By Sherman Dorn on April 1, 2013
The following isn’t quite the most emailed New York Times article ever, but I gather this is a draft of a feature that will shortly be appearing. Trend stories becoming common by Parke Davis “ICYMI, Thomas Friedman has a column in the NYTimes again,” said the tweet. “It’s becoming a trend.” This, like so many other […]
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