My Blog – Academic Trauma

21 Feb

It’s the job market season, and I find myself reading and thinking of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, a book-length hybri...

11 Feb

Who hasn’t had a boss, supervisor, or mentor worthy of complaint? The first person I worked for, who was white, was in the habit of cal...

06 Apr

“The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot ...

15 Dec

” Dear Tone Policing Colleagues Tone policing is a tactic Tone policing is a tool Tone policing is a symptom Tone polici...

01 Dec

I was fired from my first tenure track job. That was 2002. February. A month after the Twin Towers crumbled, my first tenure track j...

27 Nov

“On Being Uncivil” 1. Sometimes, you must raise your voice. It is the only way to be heard when they will not listen to you oth...

17 Nov

The Epilogue: For many white people, a single required multicultural education course taken in college, or required “cultural compet...