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From the Annals of Anthroman: February 2011
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Saturday, February 26, 2011. Disrespected, Take Two. Cross-posted at The Chronicle of Higher Education.). I wanted to take a second to acknowledge the responses to my most recent post (about complaints several senior black faculty have expressed to me about their treatment in the academy). I appreciate the discussion that it has sparked, and I definitely want to follow-up on some comments and questions. Several people wonder if I can go back and get some quotes, or at least ...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: LA Screening of my new documentary this Friday...
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Friday, October 21, 2011. LA Screening of my new documentary this Friday. Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens. Directed by Deborah A. Thomas and John L. Jackson, Jr. Produced by John L. Jackson, Jr., Deborah A. Thomas, and Junior "Gabu" Wedderburn. When: Screening in Los Angeles at 2pm on October 28th, 2011. Where: Laemmle’s Sunset 5. West Hollywood, California 90046. Theater #5: Seating capacity is 198. 11 Children under 12/Seniors/Military/Students w/ID. The Annals o...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: May 2010
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Thursday, May 6, 2010. Race, Genetics, and Harvard Law School. Is it reasonable to simply ponder the "possibility," ever so idly and hypothetically, that bad genes might explain African American underachievement? It is a an old and many-told tale, I know, but it just got a fresh re-telling at Harvard Law School this month. I absolutely do not rule out the possibility," she wrote, "that African-Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.". The s...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: March 2010
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Monday, March 15, 2010. The Politicization of Everything (that the other side is doing). Frank Rich wrote a NYT op-ed this weekend that began by criticizing former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for their ideological readings of 9/11. Giuliani was appearing on ABC's Good Morning America in January; Perino, on FOX's Hannity last November. To hear them tell it," Rich writes, "9/11 was so completely Bill Clinton’s fault that ...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: February 2010
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Academia in the Age of "Reactionary Foucauldianism". I'm taking part in a faculty discussion today on "teaching controversial issues." In preparation for that meeting, I started to jot down some thoughts on the matter. (I'll be responsible for saying a few words.). There is a hyper-politicization of higher education today, a hyper-politicization that I want to call "reactionary Foucauldianism." If Foucault's nothing-is-innocent post-structur...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: April 2011
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Saturday, April 2, 2011. I hate Jazz Music. I’ve always wanted to start a piece of writing with that one provocation—maybe a bit of creative nonfiction, maybe a would-be short story. I only bring this all up because the journal Transforming Anthropology. This new issue of TA. Is worth reading, especially since it includes a moving series of articles on the scholarship of Antonio Lauria. I’m not sure what Lauria knows about hip-hop (or if he shares any of my concern...Anthrop...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: I hate Jazz Music
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Saturday, April 2, 2011. I hate Jazz Music. I’ve always wanted to start a piece of writing with that one provocation—maybe a bit of creative nonfiction, maybe a would-be short story. I only bring this all up because the journal Transforming Anthropology. This new issue of TA. Is worth reading, especially since it includes a moving series of articles on the scholarship of Antonio Lauria. I’m not sure what Lauria knows about hip-hop (or if he shares any of my concern...C-Span ...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: November 2010
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Friday, November 19, 2010. To Conference or Not to Conference. The last time I blogged about attending an academic conference, I found myself mercilessly pummeled by several very upset Chronicle of Higher Education. Readers (the other place where I blog. A little more consistently). They used my post as an excuse to rail against professors who (irresponsibly! 8220;How many classes did you have to cancel to attend your little conference? Both those who anonymously posted thei...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: May 2011
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Friday, May 13, 2011. The End of the World: Next Week? Image from kingdomexclusion.com/. Some people invoke the ancient Mayans to contend that the world’s expiration date is quickly approaching, but there are other arguments afoot these days about just how imminent such an end might be. You may have seen the billboards for one of them: Family Radio’s. Declaration that Judgment Day is “guaranteed” to begin (and quite conspicuously) on May 21st, 2011. I’m currently worki...
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From the Annals of Anthroman: Doing Diversity DIfferently
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From the Annals of Anthroman. Sunday, September 25, 2011. Many universities operationalize their commitments to “diversity” in curious and conflicted ways. Some of these same schools end up crafting faculty diversity initiatives that might seem to go against the grain of their institutions’ regular hiring practices, counting and categorizing bodies and subsequently creating search committees to lure accomplished scholars (especially scholars of color) from other places. But if universities are trying to ...