Site-Wide Activity

3:20 – He discusses media and the language used to teach us about the world. Financial gain shapes the way companies produce media and, therefore, the ways media influences the “conversation” based on what […]

We all like to make jokes about stories we hear being ‘fake news’ and poke fun at the politicians who debunk true stories about them as invalid, but the issues of the fake news phenomenon is much more serious tha […]

Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle  by Jerry Gershenhorn

Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of […]

The introduction of Wikipedia’s article on the “indigenous peoples in Brazil” contains several interesting pieces of information – most starkly the scale by which the region’s indigenous population declined […]

Last August, the first major exhibition of queer art was shut down earlier than scheduled at the Santander Cultural in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The art exhibition was called Queermuseu or Queer Museum, and […]

Does Lippi-Green sometimes go too far in her accusations of racism in Disney movies? Do the animated medium and the films’ primary demographic justify some decisions made by Disney (e.g. Scar’s distinctly British […]

Logistical information

TA’s office hours are on Wednesdays 7-8. If this does not work for you, you can email Marina and work other times out with her.

Professor Holt started off class by saying that if you […]

Esta es la historia de un mundo en el que todos somos iguales. Primero aprenderemos sobre el mundo, entonces conoceremos a las personas que viven en el mundo.

En este nuevo mundo, todo el mundo tiene el mismo […]

¡Hola! Me llamo Raquel y tengo 18 años. Soy de Nueva York- de una ciudad muy pequeña en Nueva York. Soy in* estudiante de primer año en la universidaad de Wooster. Cada semana, publicaré una nueva entrada en este […]

In the passage, Max Weinreich is quoted as saying, “a language is merely a dialect with an army and a navy.” How does this paradigm play out in our daily lives? And to what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement?

Hay muchas personas en la comunidad y colegio de Wooster quien que no reciben la consideración que los merezcan. Un ejemplo de esto es una profesora a quien nadie le gusta… pero me gusta. Ella enseña una clas […]

Hola! Este es Moeka y voy a informarte sobre los tiempos ahora en Wooster y Tokio. Hoy es el lunes, el 22 de enero en Wooster y está nublado. Aquí, la temperatura está a 45 grados Fahrenheit. Va a llevar por la ma […]