Critical theory, critical culture, & postmodern humanism
In a nutshell: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will decide two pending cases with big implications for higher education despite a recent appeals court ruling that President Obama overstepped his constitutional authority in appointing three NLRB members last year. Continue reading Higher ed implications in court attack on NLRB
In a nutshell: Stunned by their lack of Latino support in the November elections, Republicans seem ready to join the White House and congressional Democrats in a bipartisan immigration reform effort. Coverage Bipartisan Immigration Plan Counters Republican Orthodoxy Businessweek Immigration Continue reading Immigration reform makes progress in the US Senate
In a nutshell: Alexandra Petri is a political humorist manqué with no particular qualifications to write about contemporary poetry. A young woman named Alexandra Petri pissed off a lot of people on January 22 by writing a Washington Post blog column Continue reading Is Alexandra Petri (brain-) dead?
This article in today’s New York Times really fascinates me. It makes me wonder whether we are seeing the emergence of a new kind of politics in which intersectionality prevails over difference as the basis of identity-based political organizing and Continue reading The New Identity Politics?
In a nutshell: Young Mexican-American students in Tucson are under attack by right-wing, reactionary forces for trying to understand the matrix of oppression and privilege in which their lives are embedded. UPDATE: April 28, 2012 “When they see students asserting Continue reading Banned in Tucson: Critical Race Studies