About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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- Elizeth on Bersani (2010): Is the Rectum a Grave?
- Joe Schicke on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Ariane on the idea of a writing center
- Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - Hybrid Pedagogy on Miller’s “Genre as Social Action”
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Category Archives: Race
wow, a frank conversation about race on the view
I would never have expected this conversation on The View, but it’s a fairly good one about the use of the “n-word.” (via Sociological Images)
rhetoric of “god’s land”: more Tim Wise on Racism
(via Eric.) Tim Wise has a new essay up, available on his blog as The Ugly Side of Disaster: Racism and the Calculus of Comparative Suffering, or at Lip Magazine as Adding Insult to Injury: Race, Disaster and the Calculus … Continue reading
will this be the most racist presidential election ever?
My friend Dennis sent me Hullabaloo post that includes this pin on sale at the Republican National Convention Texas State Convention: According to Dennis, two of the contributors to Hullabaloo are claiming that this will be the most racist election … Continue reading
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white privilege: how it’s used to divide and conquer the working class
Via Meagan from a few months ago, this Tim Wise video on the historical and current implications of white privilege, and how it’s used to divide white working class folks from people of color (so that white workers identify with … Continue reading
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the rhetorics of diversity
Victor Villaneuva has a post over at the CCCC blog titled Rhetorics of Racism. It’s a great read, critiquing rhetoric used around racism, drawing on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s four tropes of racism (abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism/biologicization of racism, and minimization), … Continue reading
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