Procrastadabbler

For the past many months I’ve been working on a spatial autoethnography in order to examine issues of race, class, and white privilege. I finally finished a draft and have set it aside. I still have to do all the citations and lots and lots of clean-up work, but I now have some shape to [...]

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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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Octavia Butler is dead. She died just a few days ago. There was a brief write-up in the local paper…an inside page. It seems so little for such a big mind. She was a McArthur Fellow — the genius award. One of the few Black writers in science/speculative fiction. She once said, she decided to [...]

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