Vilna Treitler @ InequalityMatters.net

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Mexico City, Frida, Diego, good friends, and good food. Hello summer!

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Mexico City, Frida, Diego, good friends, and good food. Hello summer!

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Entire USC MFA 2016 Class Drops Out in Protest: Canaries in Higher Ed Mines

USC MFA Class of 2016 Students Drop Out in Protest; They're Canaries in the Higher Ed Mines

Did you hear the one about the entering class of 2014 at USC dropping out? Yes, all seven of them, all together, en masse. Their public statement, I thought, was strong and persuasive, and I hope their statement gets the attention – both within and outside of USC – that it deserves. The students offer that administrators, led by someone with no arts training, created a curriculum and forced it…

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White Supremacy and Black History Month

My colleague-friends and I have been chatting about white supremacy lately. I think a change is coming, because it’s surely the buzz-words in a lot of my academic circles. I even used it in the title of a paper I just published in the new journal The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. The article is called “Social Agency and White Supremacy in IMmigration Studies”, and argues that immigration…

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#BlackLivesMatter in Africa too I doubt anyone who reads this blog didn't know that Africa is a continent. But whoo, it's a big one!

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The Year 2014 in Review, by Tom Tomorrow, who says it way better than I could. He's one of my all time favorite cartoonists. See his other comix, including part one to the year in review…

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Rape on US College & University Campuses - a problem finally getting media attention

Rape on US College & University Campuses – a problem finally getting media attention

Annie Clark, 25, and Andrea Pino, 22, two political-science majors from the University of North Carolina started a movement that is finally getting some play – thanks to Emma Sulkowicz, a.k.a. the international sensation “mattress girl,” Her “performance art” piece is getting international attention as she protests the verdict in an alleged rape at Columbia university. In an appeal of an earlier…

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Latino entrepreneurship is on the rise. But is that always a good thing?  

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Shout out to public school teachers

Shout out to public school teachers

Matt Damon says what I believe: (1) public school teachers are awesome if directed and FREE to encourage creativity and give each student what s/he needs –  #$&*# teaching to the test, and (2) thinking they’re overpaid is completely laughable. I’m late to the party (he said this in 2011, but I just found it today). In this video, he thanks his mom, a professor of Early Childhood Education, and…

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US record on black folk: not looking good

US record on black folk: not looking good

Of Black America … by Lou Dorfsman

I’m thinking about Ferguson, and waiting. This country, as Spike Lee recently described it, is at war with the black male. I think he’s right, and he’s right to say that it’s tearing the nation apart. In this war, the troops are aiming weapons of war at civilians and the collateral damage to the nation is enormous. Two articles of interest support this thinking.

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Animal Cruelty and You This brief video on how animal cruelty is marketed to you/us really blew my mind. (Thanks, …

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NC sets forced sterilization compensation

NC sets forced sterilization compensation

Some 7600 men and women were sterilized in North Carolina between 1929 and 1975 in a consistently agressive eugenics program. I tell my students that this happened (happens) here in the US, and they have a hard time believing me. But now, I can invite them to take a look at the pamphlet distributed to promote forced sterilization. I found it breathtakingly shocking. They made it look like killing…

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Education inequalities, rampant and enraging

Education inequalities, rampant and enraging

I have been thinking quite a lot about Malala, and just today saw her 2013 interview with Jon Stewart in which she earns repeated cheers from the audience and completely stuns Stewart, which ain’t easy. She explains there that she had anticipated her would-be murderer’s arrival, and decided that if it came to that, rather than fight her attacker, she would explain to him how important education…

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Families, Separated I am lucky. I had a great Mother's Day this year for several reasons - I ate a delicious breakfast cooked by hubby, and including an awesome cake he made for the occasion; I saw at the…

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Ellen DeGeneris explains “Bic, for her” I'll let Ellen do the talking and edumacatin'. Bic, are you listening? (Thanks for the heads up to this, Upworthy.)

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Dubai’s Qatar Airways fostering Luxury and Poverty

United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Qatar are all equated with luxury…

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Get it right... that's my name!

I’m highlighting today two strong and beautiful pieces about a different kind of inequality. This is not the kind of inequality that keeps food out of people’s mouths. It hurts the heart, not the belly. But it’s easily avoided, if one decides to be human,…

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