Category Archives: Social Justice

a pedagogy of shame

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Michael

In preparation for Luke and my conference talk “Towards a Less Oppressive Social Justice Pedagogy,” I am reading Sandra Lee Bartky’s “The Pedagogy of Shame.” While Bartky is most concerned with the way we systematically shame women in classrooms, leaving … Continue reading →

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poetry’s link to activism

Posted on November 10, 2006 by Michael

To the white female poet who says, “Well, frankly, I believe that politics and poetry don’t necessarily have to go together,” I say, “Your little taste of white privilege has deluded you into thinking that you don’t have to fight … Continue reading →

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working class and the classroom

Posted on September 16, 2006 by Michael

Like Donna LeCourt, and many other academics, I grew up pretty working class. My dad helps Grandpa run the family farm — in the family for 103 years now, I believe — while also taking on three part-time jobs. Mom … Continue reading →

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more from Lorde

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Michael

From”Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger”: “I don’t like to talk about hate. I don’t like to remember the cancellation and hatred, heavy as my wished-for death, seen in the eyes of so many white people from the … Continue reading →

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some quotes from Audre Lorde

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Michael

From “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”: My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to ue it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of … Continue reading →

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