i had the opportunity recently to pick up a couple more books towards my goal of 12 fiction books this year. i had fallen off the pace quite a bit, but it may still be possible for me to finish. in october/november, i’ve read “an outline of the republic” by siddhartha deb, and “fallen land”…
Category: race
why are we asking the wrong questions about education?!?
[I’m warning you now, this is probably the longest blog post I’ve ever written, but my passion on the issue requires it…] The Chicago Teachers’ strike is compelling news to me for a number of reasons. [For example, why did the union not give parents and students more lead time that a strike might be…
#49 blackness:: abused
I’ve been trying to restrict my writing on the blog until I could clarify the research topics and religious discussions I want to address on my blog. I cannot resist, however, the need to say at least a few sentences about Donovan McNabb’s comments recently remarking that “African-American quarterbacks are under greater scrutiny” than other…
are black men tired? or are black women just scary…
i didn’t know what to write about, but i had a feeling like i wanted to write… so i’m going to write about a discussion i saw on the facebook this week: “are black women scaring off black men?” actually, i’m not really going to write about that point, because i think it really is…
a real image
I just want to thank my readers for being patient with me, and continuing to check the page. I’ve been focusing on reading and writing out my research that I haven’t taken the time to just write on the blog. I’ve had plenty to write about, though… I just couldn’t sort it all out. I…
absent vision… languishing people
As I was walking through Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Barnes and Noble with one of my favorite professors, the one and only William Massey, I was introduced to the phenomenon of mathematics novels, memoirs, theses, and literature that wasn’t academic textbooks or journals. I ended up buying a book with a title I feel resonates with…