Race Signs 30 Oct 2006 | 02:43 am

Race and the Censoring of Art 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

In 2005 the Board of Directors of the Quinlan Museum in Duluth, Georgia refused to allow artists Richard Lou and Bill Fisher to install their work. After commissioning the piece the museum board decid...

The Importance of Speculation, or Octavia Butler as King figure 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

The recent death of renowned novelist Octavia Butler causes the author to reflect on the importance of Octavia Butler's work to the continuing evolution of post-civil rights thought concerning justice...

The Timeless Color of Violence 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

A recent incident of racial violence triggers an analysis of contemporary violent racism. The author asks: Is racist violence timeless? Is racist violence a thing of the past? In what ways does racist...

Reading Crash: Writing Awareness Narratives 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

Crash is one of those movies that inhabits you for days after viewing. The movie wouldn’t let go of Janice Wolff, wouldn’t stop playing in her mind. So she figured out how to use it in the classroom.

English, Please?: Thoughts on Pedagogy and Cultural Assimilation in Adult ESL Education 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

ESL instructors are caught in the middle of a cultural shift, and can help shape the outcome of that shift. This essay examines how ESL instructors can become agents of change in the United States.

‘Eh Haole, You Want One Soda?’: On Being White and British in Hawai‘i 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

In Hawai'i white people are coded haole and the term can be applied as a simple descriptive label as well as with pejorative force in more tense contexts. In today's Hawai'i what does it mean to be wh...

A Different Shade of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Marginalizing by the Marginalized 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

Shared experiences of oppression rarely lead to sympathy for others who are also marginalized, traumatized, and minimized by the dominant society. Rather, all too miserably, those who should naturally...

The Big Penny Pussy Sale: White Patriarchy and the Rhetoric of the Hollywood Fancyman 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

I am bothered that the term pimp has crept into our common vernacular as a seemingly benign adjective that refers to a keen sense of style or one’s ability to attract and exploit women. It seems we ha...

Where Does One Begin? 29 Jan 2006 | 02:59 am

Where does one begin an honest conversation about race these days? How does one begin a critical conversation about race and racism in a United States society that seemingly refuses to acknowledge tha...