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So, I woke up this morning feeling groggy and moody because there was a fire in my apartment complex last night. So, I didn’t sleep well. However, like most mornings, I got up hoping that the world would be a little less racist, a little less sexist, a little less homophobic, and a little less […]

I’m still on IR trying to get this chapter draft to semi-embarrassing level.  (Which, frankly, would be a pleasant surprise to my committee since, you know, I rarely have anything to show them–and when I do it’s some incoherent mess about black people and geography. Yes, I mortify the race with every word I type.) […]

Journey in Black; Enlightening Pieces by 19 Women Explore Pivotal Moments Experienced by Females of Color Christopher A. Yates, The Columbus Dispatch, July 5, 2009 Number of Black Male Teachers Belies Their Influence Avis Thomas-Lester, The Washington Post, July 4, 2009 Club Owners Want to Take Golf to the Inner City Kareem Copeland, The Associated […]

On the day the Senate Judiciary Committee considers her nomination: I didn’t watch much of the Sotomayor hearings. I found them boring, and frankly, in some weird way they reminded me of my oral exams. And who wants recall that trauma on a weekday afternoon–especially when one is supposed to be writing a dissertation and […]