Procrastadabbler

Much of my summer has been taken up by the Genesee Valley Writing Project, but I did manage to fit a few books in.
Micromessaging by Stephen Young. I read this at the beginning of the summer as part of the Fisher diversity program. It’s really conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff) taken into the corporate world. But [...]

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Violence is bad. Duh, no kidding. Hate crimes are abhorrent. Duh, no kidding. And when the police add to the problem, the situation becomes untenable. Ok, no argument there. But when it happens to my students, it stops being an intellectual position and becomes personal and viseral.
I won’t recount the story. You can read it/view [...]

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The past few weeks I’ve been reading about racial identity construction. Then I drove to Tennessee over the weekend and took along audiobooks. My public library doesn’t have a wide selection, but I did manage to find a few intriguing books. One was The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I’ve never read it, but know [...]

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