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August 2016

August 23, 2016

Keeping Hope in a World Gone Mad

The question remains, though, how do we keep doing the work of social justice in...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

How To Be an Effective White Ally

To destroy racism we have to destroy the system that was built upon Black people’s...

April 05, 2016

Are Whites Guilty of Racism or Just Responsible For It?

White people want to believe that we are autonomous—that we are only being racist if...

April 03, 2016

Do White People Need Black Friends?

Of the white people I know who actively think and care about racism . ....

April 02, 2016

Reflections on Black Friends, Black Spaces, and White Identity

It felt vaguely colonialist for me to be coming to their space for just a...

April 01, 2016

Dialogue on Race: College Students Talk Across Racial Lines

One of the most vibrant memories I have was when I was in second grade,...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

Is an Apocalypse Inevitable Before We Can Achieve Sustainability?

While delegates in Paris have been hammering out a long-overdue global deal to lower greenhouse...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

An Adventure in Cartography: Approaching College Visits as a Pair of Explorers

Place matters, and different places feel right to different people for a variety of reasons.

October 07, 2015

How Capitalism is Destroying Higher Education: Why David Brooks Got it Wrong

To suggest that when faculty focus on research and teaching that we (or our universities)...

June 2015

June 08, 2015

Transforming the Teaching of Poverty

This morning, ninety college students and four law students from nineteen colleges and universities will...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

Are Scholar-Activists Welcome in the Academy?

People enter the academy for a variety of reasons. Some of us love books and...

April 13, 2015

Contemplating College Admissions

My husband and I took our daughter on her first college visit last week. We...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Bias against female professors is real

A history professor at Northeastern University in Boston has just developed a tool to search...