The Reverse of Discrimination is “Not Discrimination”
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) I recently went on a road trip with my uncle, traveling from Boston to New York for my brother’s high school graduation. As we drove through western Massachusetts, our conversation eventually drifted to employment and the economy. In what would prove to be a fascinating discussion, my uncle began to [...]
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Racial Inequality and the Rhetoric of Responsibility
(originally published at Social Science Lite, x-posted at Postbourgie) Last Spring, Brown University economist Glenn Loury presented at Harvard sociology’s Workshop on Race and Black Youth Culture. He titled his talk “Culture, Causation and Confusion: Why Bill Cosby is Wasting His Time,” engaging with the pervasive “rhetoric of responsibility” frequently applied to blacks in the [...]
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The White Racist Meme
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) It would be an understatement to argue that the mass media has taken on racial analysis with unprecedented zeal since the election of Barack Obama. Unfortunately, in attempts to present fair and balanced news coverage, cable news programs have typically included panels with representatives from both sides of the Left-Right [...]
...read moreThis Is Where White Guilt Comes From
(x-posted at Social Science Lite) It’s funny, I never really thought too much about liberal white guilt until I came to graduate school at Harvard. Now that I’m here in Cambridge, it seems to be a reoccurring topic of conversation. I don’t know, maybe the election of Barack Obama has made us think more about [...]
...read moreWhy Black Transgender Role Models Are Important
A TransGriot post I wrote in April 2009. Wyatt T. Walker wrote in a December 1967 Negro Digest article, “Rob a people of their sense of history and you take away hope.” So when I stated that I wish I’d had pioneering transgender role models to look up to of African descent growing up like [...]
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Why You Tripping About What I Said?
I’ve been involved in online discourse for over ten years now. It never fails that when I or any Black person, be they gay, straight or trans, posts ANY commentary that critiques how whiteness insidiously operates in our communities and beyond, calls out a white person operating in a racist way, or points out that [...]
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