Journalist – Historian – Speaker
My colleague, Katharine Gerbner, a brilliant historian of the Carribean, wrote this for the Washington Post: Although many today consider race to be an immutable characteristic, that wasn’t always the case. Before the 17th century, whiteness didn’t even exist as a racial category. It emerged for the worst of reasons: slave-owning politicians invented “whiteness” as …
I get this question a lot. Eve Ewing has published a guide to the “personal statement” that is brilliant and useful. She writes: The personal statement is a slightly misleading title for this document. It is not primarily about you holistically in the way your college personal statement was. It serves ONE MAJOR PURPOSE: to …
NEW at Pacific Standard: On Monday, Dean Moneta went into a campus coffee shop for tea and a vegan muffin, was offended by the lyrics of a rap song that came up on the shop’s Spotify playlist, and promptly had the two employees on duty fired. In this case—as in other recent cases where professors …
Adding to the list of conservatives on campuses doing the things that the accuse liberals of doing (and the Free Speech Warriors staying quiet because they don’t care about Christian universities anyway). https://t.co/pqG3VTQxW8 — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 9, 2018 Whatever it is that conservatives accuse liberals of doing on college campuses are things …
I’d like to know if an editor asked Bari Weiss about this paragraph in her own piece that contradicts her entire premise. /1 pic.twitter.com/DaNUOzyogt — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 9, 2018 Bari Weiss has been writing the same “I’m silenced” essay for a long time, joined by a huge range of rich, powerful, connected, …
A Texas principal joked to her staff that the next time a black disabled child tried to leave the school grounds, she’d call the cops and tell them he had a gun. NEW at Pacific Standard “Swearingen’s “joke,” if that’s what it was, tells a story about the state-sanctioned killing of one of her students. …
Surveillance capitalist ed tech sells surveillance pedagogy. Fear and surveillance is no way to teach. https://t.co/o9C7tihu2l — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 7, 2018 Don’t spy on your students. Build pedagogical approaches premised on trust and respect. Maximize the best practices rather than letting potential bad actors frighten you into building your teaching approaches around …
Did you know it’s legal for companies to pay people with disabilities pennies on the dollar for doing the same job as a worker without a disability? It’s a discriminatory practice – and I’m working to eliminate it. https://t.co/KiFnq7OIS3 — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 1, 2018 It’s been exciting to see major senators, especially in …
News from the labor front, my latest at Pacific Standard. As the threat to strike grew, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey promised a hefty 20 percent raise for all teachers by 2020 (which would still leave the state’s teachers far below the national average). Rather than generate new revenue to cover the cost, though, Ducey, as …
My latest – on the arrest of a man with Down syndrome and the campaign to #AbolishICE “Juan Gaspar-García, a 22-year-old man with Down syndrome, came to this country from Guatemala the year after his mother died. He was 14 at the time, and his father and siblings were in Florida. From the outside, it …