Very interesting

Richard Price, ed., Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas (Garden City, New York, 1973), p. 20; C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (rev. ed., New York, 1963), pp. 17, 19: both Toussaint L’Ouverture and Henri Christophe were the sons of African chieftains. Is this why … More Very interesting

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The association of race and national identity, and the supposition that race-based inequality in our societies is a superficial rather than a fundamental flaw, are so naturalized by now that it is worth asking again: What is race? What are racialism and racism? What is their relation to the new nation-states? In the United States, … More 161

MOOC

As I keep discovering, I am pedagogically more radical than most. If I taught a MOOC, I would take the “guide on the side” seriously by not videotaping myself at all, only posting letters, as in a blog post. Videotapes I would post would be of others, and they could be archival videotapes of academic … More MOOC

An activism recipe

1) We introduced two motions into faculty senate: the first motion establishing a committee to rethink the Senate so that it could exercise a stronger voice in shared governance with administration; the second motion to shift our percentage of tenure-line to off-tenure-line instruction to 70/30 in 5 years. The first motion passed; the second was … More An activism recipe