White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History
by Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In
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Education
Neo-McCarthyism and the Radical Professor
It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively
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Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party
Not long ago I had the opportunity to visit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Power! exhibition,
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Hip Hop and Disability: An Interview with Leroy Moore Jr.
This month I interviewed Bay area artist and producer Leroy Moore Jr., co-founder of the Sins Invalid performance project and
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The Enduring Controversies of the N-Word
Hearing the N-word uttered in popular media is rather familiar in the United States. A version of the word is
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