Category Archives: Social Justice

and now a noose at OSU

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Michael

cross-posted Yesterday morning, at Phi Gamma Delta house here at OSU, a noose was seen and photographed hanging from a tree. This is outrageous. Also, unfortunately, there was no coverage of this in the OSU Barometer. The Black Student Union … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Justice | 8 Comments

Letter to the Editor

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Michael

Sent to the Barometer: In the Barometer’s October 26 editorial regarding the October 5 article “Student section… color selection” and Renee Roman Nose’s October 26 column “Blackface? what’s your opinion?”, the editorial staff apologized for their ignorance regarding the historical … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Social Justice | 3 Comments

OSU Barometer engages in censorship

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Michael

cross-posted I’m going to try to be brief because I have a lot of grading to get to. As some readers may know, the OSU Barometer printed a story encouraging students to dress up in black for a football game, … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With Diversity, Introduction

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Michael

I started reading Walter Benn Michaels’s book The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love identity and Ignore Inequality last spring, but never got far or around to finishing it, so tonight, having decided to take a night off … Continue reading →

Posted in Identity and Identification, Social Justice | 1 Comment

once again, another claim that men are oppressed too

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Michael

My friend Ruben posts a link to New York Times blogger John Tierney’s post about Roy Baumeister’s APA talk “Is There Anything Good About Men”. Baumeister’s talk includes this passage in his introduction: But rather than seeing culture as patriarchy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Social Justice | 3 Comments