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Hi everyone, I haven’t written much lately and I recently deactivated my profile on Twitter. To be clear, I’m fine and so is everyone in my family. I j…
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In a recent panel discussion that I facilitated, three of my favorite scholars talked about the problems with race reductionism—the tendency to minimiz…
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A Constraint for Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Affairs Professionals
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Over the last few years, I have studied diversity work with a focus on higher education. I decided to study diversity work for my dissertation because …
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I think neoliberal fragility exists. Let me explain. By neoliberal fragility, I mean the fear, discomfort, and anxiety that arises whenever anyone prop…
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In a recent episode of The Jacobin Show, Toure Reed—one of my favorite scholars and comrades—highlights some of the limitations of using “structural ra…
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In a piece for Third Rail, I sought to provide some clear examples of racecraft—the process whereby racial differences (instead of practices like racis…
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Should chief diversity officers be elected by employees or selected by bosses and management?
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I hate to be that guy (sometimes), but I can’t stop thinking of this argument about the limits of diversity, from scholars Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter B…
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“We allowed ourselves to accept middle-class prejudices against the labor movement…In shunning it, we have lost an opportunity. Let us try to regain it…
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Thank you so much for subscribing to my new writing project, titled Mustard Seeds. I chose that title because I will be writing about the things that k…
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Let's have a really uncomfortable dialogue about retention and graduation in higher education.
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