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Katie Holt wrote a new post on the site Latin American Revolutions 6 years, 3 months ago
I wanted to share some of the resources I mentioned in class for thinking about poverty in a more nuanced way.
This report from Chanel News Asia focuses on Asia, and provides a good overview of the UN’s […]
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Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) 6 years, 4 months ago
Now we start assembling our tools for critical analysis of fringe ideas. I find a chart of logical fallacies to be useful when sorting out the philosophical underpinnings of arguments:
There are plenty of […]
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Katie Holt wrote a new post on the site Latin American Revolutions 6 years, 4 months ago
The Model United Nations informational meeting is this Wednesday August 28 at 5:30pm in Kauke 038. This semester the team will be representing Kenya at the American Model United Nations held in Chicago right […]
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Katie Holt wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 4 months ago
The Model United Nations informational meeting is this Wednesday August 28 at 5:30pm in Kauke 038. This semester the team will be representing Kenya at the American Model United Nations held in Chicago right […]
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Richard Lehtinen wrote a new post on the site Home Page for Rick Lehtinen 6 years, 5 months ago
I’ve done a variety of things in my life for a job. Fast food employee, warehouse worker, grocery store shelf-stocker, golf caddy, corn detasseler. And, this past week, I pursued gainful employment as a snake c […]
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Mark Wilson wrote a new post on the site Nonsense! (And Why it is so Popular) 6 years, 5 months ago
I call this a course on “nonsense” for a reason: I am a skeptic by personality and my scientific profession. I support explanations of natural and historical events that are the simplest and best fit the available […]
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Katie Holt wrote a new post on the site Latin American Revolutions 6 years, 6 months ago
Welcome to the course site for History 101-77 Latin American Revolutions. Here you’ll find out more about our learning goals, course readings, assignments, and topics for discussion.
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Katie Holt wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago
Welcome to the course site for History 215 Colonial Latin America. Here you’ll find information about the course learning goals, readings, assignments, and topics for discussion.
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Shannon King commented on the post, Seeking the Black Vote, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 7 months ago
Biden will likely get the black vote, but he’s deeply problematic.
Abigail, you’re partly correct that Biden represents the old guard of the Democratic Party, though the claim that he represents the […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 7 months ago
As a younger voter in the 1990s, I was initially interested in Joe Biden. He was charismatic, spoke well, and seemed quite reasonable.
Of course, at this time, I didn’t know about his controversial […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, Modern-day Redlining, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 7 months ago
Yes. Redlining is a live and well, unfortunately.
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Shannon King commented on the post, Black Politicians and the Run for Presidency, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 7 months ago
Good post, Adebola. There were previous precedents for the presidency, but despite the attraction of the third party how likely is it for them to win? Also, what about the roles of “movement” politics? […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 6 years, 7 months ago
Mark Herron, “Black women struggle impact in sports”
Conflicts from an athletic standpoint. Serena Williams has been receiving backlash for her catsuit from audiences saying it was too exposing. Brittney Gri […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, Open for discussion: Response to the question of "What did Obama do for African Americans of this country?", on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 7 months ago
Great question, Dante. I think, and this is what I was trying to get at yesterday morning, that Obama definitely inspired black people. It was both cultural and symbolic! And this is important!
It will be years […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, 3 Black Churches Have Burned in 10 Days: A Hate Crime, on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 7 months ago
This is an important conversation. On the one hand, certainly both Notre Dame and black churches should get support.
On the other, there’s a clear relationship between US racism and burning of black churches; […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 6 years, 7 months ago
Workshop III
Brian Lief “Equal Pay for Women: Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and Other Female Athletes Fight for Equal Pay”
I am focusing on the efforts by female African American athletes to fight for pay […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 6 years, 8 months ago
This post is partly inspired by recent student activism at the College of Wooster, represented collectively by the Galpin Call-in, as well more recently students, especially students of color’s concerns about […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 8 months ago
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The Danger of A Single Story”
In this class, while this course’s goal is to center African American History as central and part of the larger story of U.S. history, it also […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 8 months ago
Systematic Racism Explained
This morning we discussed the rise of conservativism in American politics and liberal and conservative law and order politics. Part of that discussion is connected to previous […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 6 years, 8 months ago
“Kevin Kruse Takes to Twitter to School Dinesh D’Souza in American History” by Jeet Heer
Dinesh D’Souza gets a history lesson on Twitter. D’Souza has made a specialty of highlighting the undeniable racism of […]
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