‘The Great Shame of Our Profession’

by | Mar 28, 2017 | blog

“If you are a tenured (or tenure-track) faculty member teaching in a humanities department with Ph.D. candidates, you are both the instrument and the direct beneficiary of exploitation. Your roles as teacher, adviser, and committee member generate, cultivate,...

The Legacy Of The Mississippi Delta Chinese

by | Mar 18, 2017 | blog

Forgotten histories and migrations. Though I knew without really knowing– knew every time I was called a chinaman. Knew the time I thought to work out at the country club. Knew at the China King buffet, with every free plate of jello and canned fruit. (posted...

NowThis Politics

by | Mar 18, 2017 | blog

“Guess what? There is no demonstratable evidence [that feeding kids who face hunger helps them in school]!” The enthusiasm for this idiocy. Does anyone, conservative or liberal, who’s spent any time at a school with low-income children doubt that...