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Monthly Archives: April 2012
UT Blackademics: Embracing New Media by Shantel G. Buggs
Last semester, I had the opportunity to join a steering committee to develop a new graduate-level “action research” course in UT’s African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Department. In our weekly meetings, several other graduate students from various departments, myself, … Continue reading
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A response to Makode Linde’s ‘genital mutilation cake performance’ by Letisha Brown
On Sunday April 15th, “the Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut in to a large cake shaped like a black woman as part of an art installation which was reportedly meant to highlight the issue of female circumcision” … Continue reading
‘The Problem of Democracy Today’ – Cornelius Castoriadis
An interesting speech given in Athens in 1989, six months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, by Cornelius Castoriadis, founder of Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-65). Mention of sociologist Lewis Mumford. Some tidbits: ‘We must return to the original meaning of the … Continue reading
Developing Course Goals and Objectives
Sociology Assistant Instructor David Glisch-Sanchez offered an informative session Monday on how to assess student learning in the classroom. First, there are different types of learning, from memorization and understanding to evaluation and creating something new based on knowledge gained. … Continue reading
Chicken & Soda: Power and Stereotypes in Advertisements
Recently, Burger King has been under fire due to a leaked commercial starring hip-hop singer Mary J. Blige promoting their new crispy chicken wraps. In the commercial, a customer asks a Burger King cashier what’s in the new crispy chicken … Continue reading
UT Alum Ed Morris receives promotion and awaits forthcoming book from Rutgers University Press
Congratulations to UT Alum Ed Morris for his tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. Watch for his forthcoming book from Rutgers University Press in September. Rutgers Center for Children and Childhood Studies Edward Morris’s second … Continue reading
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Mad Men: ‘Looking Back’ at Gender, Race, and Class by Pamela Neumann
Mad Men has returned–and with it, the love/hate relationship with Don Draper and the rest of the ad executives of Madison Avenue, whose lives are increasingly impacted by the many events of the tumultuous 1960s. In the midst of this … Continue reading