Riley’s argument was not only aggressively ignorant and racially aggrieved; it has a clear racist pedigree. Mockery of PoC scholars and ethnic studies is hardly new–as Riley herself is aware–and somehow thinks justifies her piece (“The content of my post, after all, is hardly shocking; the same thing could have been written 30 years ago”–not the defense she thinks!). ..
The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that this debacle, and the media response to it, tell a story about the subtle ways in which white supremacy remains deeply embedded in our culture–in the media, in academia, and in our “national conversation” about race and racism in general.
Four ways this story is about white supremacy:
1. The coverage of the controversy has centered Riley and erased the black women she attacked. …
2. Riley’s tenure at CHE reveals an institutional problem. …
3. CHE‘s initial response elevated white opinion above lived black experiences and knowledge production. …
4. Black scholarship and black scholars are viewed as suspect and having to be justified, while implicitly white scholarship is seen as neutral, worthwhile, and objective. …
On The CHE‘s Reinforcement Of Suspicion Of Black Academia
None of this is to say that black studies is perfect. Like many academic disciplines, it can be deeply bound to “traditional” approaches that marginalize scholarship from or about women, queer, and/or trans people. But it’s also the case that substantive critiques of Black Studies by scholars who take race and racism seriously (i.e., not Sowell and Steele) already exist. That critics are wholly ignorant of both the contributions and critiques of Black Studies is an example of what Spelman anthropologist Erica L. Williams describes as the “emotional labor” PoC scholars “must perform … beyond our job descriptions” and not just in the humanities. The considerable stresses of educating and producing scholarship are compounded by the suspicion and racial hostility PoC scholars routinely face.
(Source: racialicious.com)
Google Docs Research Tool: A Review
(Source: chronicle.com)
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How the Professor who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown’s Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery—the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s.
These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.
Each tale was carefully fabricated by undergraduates at George Mason University who were enrolled in T. Mills Kelly’s course, Lying About the Past. Their escapades not only went unpunished, they were actually encouraged by their professor. Four years ago, students created a Wikipedia page detailing the exploits of Edward Owens, successfully fooling Wikipedia’s community of editors. This year, though, one group of students made the mistake of launching their hoax on Reddit. What they learned in the process provides a valuable lesson for anyone who turns to the Internet for information.
Read more. [Image: lisaquinn565/Wordpress]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42tezni3Q1qcokc4o1_250.jpg)
051512 ♥ 109How the Professor who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown’s Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery—the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s.
These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.
Each tale was carefully fabricated by undergraduates at George Mason University who were enrolled in T. Mills Kelly’s course, Lying About the Past. Their escapades not only went unpunished, they were actually encouraged by their professor. Four years ago, students created a Wikipedia page detailing the exploits of Edward Owens, successfully fooling Wikipedia’s community of editors. This year, though, one group of students made the mistake of launching their hoax on Reddit. What they learned in the process provides a valuable lesson for anyone who turns to the Internet for information.
Read more. [Image: lisaquinn565/Wordpress]
Words to live by, especially on a Monday. (Although you may want to wait until after lunch.)
(Source: hypnoticsleepinghero, via pbstv)
050712 ♥ 2259What this blog post omitted to say is that one company— Overdrive— basically controls all library e-book and download-audiobook traffic. Not only that, they control the catalog for each library’s e-books, a catalog that I doubt no competent library cataloger would ever have designed. If there’s a public library lending e-books via any other system than Overdrive, I don’t know of it. As far as I know (and please do correct me if there’s another system in play), Overdrive exercises a virtual monopoly over library e-book distribution and does not facilitate a particular library’s patrons to make requests to their librarians for particular purchases (the way most libraries do for print books).
While I don’t know what Overdrive’s terms are for the large corporate publishers, I do know that they do not offer any terms at all for independents like Aqueduct Press. The bottom line is, you’ll never be able to check out an e-book edition of an Aqueduct title from a public library because Overdrive doesn’t want to bother with the little guys. What library patrons want is irrelevant. What acquisitions librarians would like to purchase is irrelevant. Overdrive is calling the shots.
"What most people don’t know about e-books and public libraries
(Source: aqueductpress.blogspot.com)
Essay: Supporting A Daughter’s Love for Superheroines (While Wishing There Were More of Them)
… I <3 this tumblr Superheroes are for girls, too!
(Source: themarysue.com)
