Tag: paradigms

• “White Fragility” – Who’s/Whose Reading?

  

  Should we absolutely totally read White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism, or should we avoid it as if our anti-racist lives depended on it? The answer sure seems to depend on who’s doing the reading. How much it has to do with the substance of the text is […]

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  August 6, 2020

  Read Me Project

  books, paradigms, race in the US, sociology, White Fragility

• Baffled

  

  Does it strike anyone else as wildly ironic that the very people who can’t go 45 seconds without announcing that they “believe in absolute truth” are among the staunchest supporters of a president who lies like he breathes? While the very people whose paradigm incorporates the social and discursive construction of reality are the most […]

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  October 25, 2018

  Thinking Out Loud

  critical thinking, paradigms, politics, truth

• The Mismeasure of Man

  My notes on: Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. Revised edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project] The Mismeasure of Man ended up on the “read me” shelf because our daughter had to write a research paper in English her first semester in college, in which she took […]

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  February 28, 2018

  Read Me Project

  bias, books, inequality, paradigms, Read Me Project, reading, science