1) deepforestowl made a post about the Troll incident (you know, Rachel Moss, the UW-Madison grad student with a heart of poo?), and the comments discussion has reminded me about how, despite sort of vague assurances to the contrary, it was never "dealt with" in any sense recognizable to me or mine. Not that we necessarily expect some particular concrete ( Read more... )

So Monday night, the neighbor with whom I share my back wall was having another of her raucous late-weeknight get-togethers--four or five people in total, it sounded like, with music and a lot of loud talking and laughing and--I swear to god it sounded like--occasional running into the wall? I don't know. Thumping ( Read more... )

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So last night I dreamt that I saved my lecture slides onto a Reese's peanut butter cup, and then I ate the Reese's peanut butter cup, and then I couldn't get my slides to give my lecture. It was kind of like I hadn't eaten the whole thing, but I'd definitely GNAWED on it, and so the data was, like, corrupted. And I kept thinking to myself, Why ( Read more... )

( 90210 spoilers )

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... )

From a fellow grad student of mine ( 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?

• Set up desk and computer in living room (this was second only to setting up the bed), and FINALLY got DSL back.
• Took delivery of and arranged furniture from St. Vinnie's (one dresser, one tall set shelves, one couch, one buffet, one wall mirror).
  • St. Vinnie's delivery guys are rock stars. It didn't look like it was going to be possible to get the ( Read more... )