My latest article is out. In this one I look at the sexism present in Oxford’s dictionary. Sexism really is everywhere! Please take a look. As always, please share the article with others! You can find this article here. Thanks!… Read More ›
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Review of Goodbye Christ?: Christianity, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance
My latest publication, an academic book review, is no longer in press with the Journal of African American History. You can find my review of Peter Kerry Powers’s Goodbye Christ?: Christianity, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance here. I wrote… Read More ›
Notes on: The Hate U Give (2018)
It is impossible to be unarmed when our Blackness is the weapon that they fear. The Hate U Give (2018) is a powerful movie. Its ultimate power stems not so much from its indictment of institutional and systemic racism but from its… Read More ›
Recalling the Books I Read in 2018
During 2018, I read about 9,000 (!!) student writing assignments, at least a thousand or so articles, and 35 books, listed below. In addition, I “read” and studied lots and lots of popular cultural texts (songs, movies, tv shows). American Fascists:… Read More ›
Book Review–“Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences”
Last night I read Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences published by Penguin Books. The author–Leonard Sax–has a Ph.D. and a M.D., so I expected a monograph of quality. However, I’ve never… Read More ›
Notes on: Comprehension and Paper vs. Digital Reading
Some professors and critics of change denounce various e-readers as the enemy. In what I would deem a misguided, ill-informed move, some syllabi will “prohibit” students from reading books for said classes on a Kindle, iPad, or similar device. Discussions… Read More ›
Recalling What I Read in 2017
During 2017, I read about 5,500 student writing assignments, a few thousand articles (some of the best can be found here), and 56 books. In addition, I “read” and studied hundreds of songs and around fifty or sixty films. The… Read More ›
Book Review–“The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated”
I read James Emery White’s The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated (2014) this morning in preparation for a new specific topics course I am teaching this spring–Atheists, Other “Heathens,” and 20th C. United States. White writes from the… Read More ›
