Uneven Developments

Explaining racism to my daughter

January 12, 2010

Amid the many trials and tribulations of life in New York City, one of the quotidian boons has been the […]

A Civics Lesson, Part II

January 5, 2010

Day two of jury duty was anti-climatic, but in a good sort of way.  There were no cases, so after […]

A Civics Lesson, Part I

I’ve been summoned for jury duty in New York.  Happens every six years.  Although it eats up precious time, it’s […]

Digital Activism

January 2, 2010

Activists are increasingly turning to online resources to help bring about progressive, grassroots-empowering social change.  Clay Shirky wrote about the […]

Against Enclosure of the Academic Commons

December 31, 2009

  Yesterday I participated in a panel at the annual Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia.  The panel, organized by […]

Avatars of Apartheid

December 26, 2009

At first blush, James Cameron’s Avatar appears to be a Dances with Wolves for the digital age.  True, the digital […]

Pedagogy of the Oppressors

December 22, 2009

This is the first of an occasional series of posts on the search for a high school for my daughter […]

The continuity of imperial discourse

December 19, 2009

Obama may be an exceptional man, but he’s working firmly within an exceptionalist tradition.