pennski commented on my last entry wondering about the phenomenon of "sundown towns," which I had mentioned. Since many people in the US are probably unaware of this phenomenon as well, I thought I'd give it its own entry.

The term "sundown town" comes from town line signs like the one posted at the city limits of Manitowoc, WI in 1960. (aardvark_gumbo and I ( Read more... )

I am definitely still looking for undergrad-friendly pieces on the following topics:

• activism/political change (including "how to")
• the ways in which individuals construct and reconstruct racial categories and systems
• sexuality/gender & race
• race & criminal justice
• race & employment

Academic articles are good (if not TOO dense), but I also welcome well- ( Read more... )

So I'm writing my syllabus for "How Race & Ethnicity Shape American Social Life," and I'm doing a day on the internet. I have plenty of stuff to SAY about race in MMO(RPG)s, but no articles. Can anyone refer me to anything, scholarly or otherwise?

So... does anyone know how to make LexisNexis export a citation in, like, ANY format? Because I can't find a link to do so, and I'd really like to be able to pull citations from it for RefWorks.

As I mentioned earlier, my group in the video game design workshop at MIT this past week won the competition for best game pitch, with our idea for a Beatles-themed sandbox-style game for the Wii. We had a really awesome opening video, created entirely by Neal, our team leader--he said it was okay if I put it up on YouTube for sophonisba, who can't view . ( Read more... )

Hey, does anyone know anything about video gamers launching petitions for things? I'm talking to a guy at MIT who's trying to compare girl gamers in particular to lobbyists, and he wants to know if there are any cases of girl gamers petitioning companies for something, or launching protest/petitions within MMOGs. Non-girl gamer petitions and ( Read more... )

Running out of foods that are quick to prepare, and unable to go grocery shopping until Saturday at the earliest on account of that is when I get paid, I have been raiding my cupboard to cook for the week ( Read more... )

If you're interested in the Games + Learning + Society conference I'm attending, I'm liveblogging sessions on Wicked Queen today.

It's Easter. In accordance with tradition, my parents woke me up by calling and singing "Here Comes Peter Cottontail (Hopping Down the Bunny Trail)" with great gusto. We tried to do a three-way call to sophonisba, but when sophonisba is sleeping and her phone rings, she just doesn't answer it. So we sang to her voicemail.

aardvark_gumbo told me that there would be a belated ( Read more... )

Tuesday is my early day (9:30 seminar), which kind of sucks because it probably means that I will always be taking the bus, even before it gets punishingly cold, because Tuesday is ALSO fencing club night and I don't have a good time during the day to go get my equipment, which means I have to carry it in with me in the morning, which would make ( Read more... )