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my excellent colleagues: let me show you them.
Several people I respect highly in anthro have just been in the public eye recently:
1) Lee D. Baker and Faye Harrison are among the talking heads in the Independant Lens documentary on Melville Herskovitz that is being broadcast on PBS this month ( Read more... ) -
A propos of my last post and attention all you MIT-ites!
As luck would have it. Today's Globe has this report of the MIT Study on Faculty Diversity just published today.
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Great Essay on PoCs in academia
hat tip to unusualmusic over at snr.
Scott Bear Don't Walk was accepted to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. This is his account of what he found there ( Read more... ) -
some stuff about penis size (cut for length)
There's some rumblings going on in another comm that kind of ended badly, but the original post that started the shenaningans was a post by a white guy making a joke about Chinese men's penises.
It kind of got me to thinking about the whole size thing for a minute.
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Wanted: A Third Reconstruction (The Americanization of the South)
Michael Lind makes a great argument examining the destructive results of the economic race to the bottom spear-headed by the New South, that pits US workers against each other in a nasty, corporation-takes-all model of economic development that panders to the already-wealthy. amreeka! um. well., economy, thinkingThe United States is not a Christian country: Now with added fiber!!
Excellent article on Salon.com debunking the Christianist propaganda about the "Christian" nature of the United States and of the so-called "Founding Fathers ( Read more... )Some thoughts on the Binghamton massacre and the tragedy of Jiverly Wong
As gunman's life fell apart, he took others'
This AP article just came out (accessed via to Salon.com). And it, along with the parallel and equally heart-breaking case of Devan Kalathat (h/t to SepiaMutiny) who just murdered his two children and three other relatives in Silicon Valley, has forced me to do some serious thinking about the state of ( Read more... )Cleopatra bi-racial?
The BBC is reporting that an Austrian archaeologist has discovered the tomb of Arsinoe, the blood sister of Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra), according to the Doktor Professor, Arsinoe's bones indicate that she had "African" ancestry (I'm guessing he means sub-Saharan African) which means that her mother was a black woman ( Read more... )Why I love Black Women: A personal narrative.
In which there is a submission to the PoC carnival: Beauty and WoC. Hosted by delux_vivens at yennenga.
I suppose any person’s likes and dislikes say a lot about them and not so much about the actual object of that feeling whoever or whatever that may be.
( Read more... )Listen to this old white guy on the economic situation
No not McCain, good god what do you take me for?
There's a GREAT analysis of the economic crisis by Kevin Phillips a former REPUBLICAN theorist and analyst courtesy of Democracy Now ( Read more... )