I have had another of those conversations with someone who likes teaching, in which I said I did not. But when I told her WHAT I was teaching she turned up her nose. “In my university we have other people to do that.” I thought, “Well, I rest my case.” But my graduate student does … More And Continuing
So the whitemen here are a female perfume seller in a mall and her supervisor. They are true Yankees, a Yankee being someone who rode the Mayflower to New England and has been there ever since. King Arthur is a professor from a foreign country. King Arthur: One bottle of Hermes perfume, please. Whiteman: You … More Some Yankee Whitemen
Now animated by a yogic comment from Hattie, I can keep on saying things and drawing pictures, these always having been some of my first goals in life. The immediate additional causes of my current malaise: a) so many students, including graduate students, need remedial work, but we are keeping up a certain fiction … … More On Precariousness and Destabilization
Voy a hablar de la esperanza. HOY SUFRO SOLAMENTE As we know, I am a working man, although if I were a male academic I might not have all the same duties as I do. That, precisely, is why I am a working man in old fashioned terms: a working man works on an assembly … More Voy a hablar de la esperanza
When you are really having problems, nobody believes that you are suffering. When you are all right and working things out on your own, nobody believes that you are not disturbed and suffering. That is from a brilliant and hilarious post by Ballasexitenz. Reeducation thought it was wrong that I should be an intellectual and … More Sexism Is
This semester I gave some intermediate students a survey the first day, asking what their backgrounds and interests in the field were and what they saw as their current pedagogical needs in this subject. The results were very revealing. What they (mostly) dislike in terms of pedagogy: 1. Group work. They say, “Professors believe group … More Pedagogical Revelations
He said in part, in a letter to Paulson: “Any plan to clean up the mess on Wall Street must: “1. Ensure that middle income and working families are not the ones who are paying for this bailout by “a. Imposing a five-year, 10 percent surtax on income over $1 million a year for couples … More Bernie Sanders
This is one of the fragments I wrote to recover from severe culture shock after returning to the opulent United States from Lima. Because of possible pickpockets some people are afraid to shop at Lima’s central market, which I like. But the members of my household who live mostly in the United States do go … More William Blake
I got e-mail from a friend thanking me for having lent moral support to his move out of academia years ago. “I couldn’t have done it without your help,” said he. And now Kiita is holding a festival of resignation, requesting moral support from the entire blogosphere and telling tales of what people are willing … More Another Whiteman
1. No volunteers are men and only I am white. 2. I thought we would be phoning locally but we are phoning the upper Midwest. 3. I am far less comfortable with this than with local get out the vote phoning. 4. This really is work and I am not in my element with telemarketing. … More Live Blogging a MoveOn Organizing “Party” for Obama
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