by Katie | Jun 25, 2017 | Social Justice, Teaching
Image Alt Text: A Photograph of an empty classroom with chairs stacked on the desks. Image via Pixabay. I follow Bomani Jones on Twitter (and you should too), and this morning his feed alerted me to a news story about the firing of a Black, non-tenure-track (NTT)...
by Katie | Nov 14, 2016 | Life is Long, Racial Justice, Social Justice
I’ve kept quiet on the election for about a week, mostly to give those who are far more eloquent than I am a chance to talk first. Here are my thoughts, in no particular order. (1) I’m not surprised that so many people voted for a racist, sexist, ableist,...
by Katie | Jul 16, 2015 | Law, Racial Justice, Social Justice
Five years ago or so, I wrote and published a scholarly piece on To Kill a Mockingbird. I noted Atticus Finch’s “failure of empathy,” and said that white readers could not—would not—empathize with black characters in the book because of a “fear...
by Katie | Feb 2, 2015 | Racial Justice, Social Justice, Sports
This is all I could think about last night while watching the Super Bowl. I’m sure I’m not the only one. (Heads up: No mention of the half-time show follows because that would take an entire post in and of itself. Plus this is about white male privilege....
