Procrastadabbler

Ruminations about life, teaching, literacy, research, and anything else I can think of when I am procrastinating

War in the City and on the Campus

October 6th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been wanting to write about this for a few days, but haven’t had the time. So I’m staying up late to do so. This has been weighing on my mind.
A few days ago there were articles in the local paper and in the New York Times about 20 somethings playing a sort of war [...]

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Learning to be white

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

I just finished Thandeka’s book “Learning to be White.” It’s a different take on race theory than I’ve read in the past. Thandeka, a Unitarian/Universalist minister and theologian who’s also a psychologist takes, as one would expect takes a psychological perspective on how white identity is formed. Thandeka, by the way is African American. I [...]

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