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Gender and Power in the American Classroom
What are the implications of the widespread influence that women have in elementary education?
What Campus Diversity Programs Can Learn From McCain’s Funeral
Watching two former presidents eulogize the man they defeated for the highest office gave me some ideas for campuses.
American Themes in 'Crazy Rich Asians'
The most influential character in the popular Hollywood film about Asians in Singapore is America.
On Hannah Gadsby, Spike Lee and Kwame Anthony Appiah
Do the conventions we follow when we talk about identity issues in diversity circles confine or liberate?
The Leaders We Need Now
Of Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Zadie Smith, among others.
The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision and Higher Ed's Approach to Religion
If one of your graduates was on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and heard the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, could s/he have made the hostile comments about religion that the Supreme Court found objectionable?
Social Change is the Art of Persuasion
Which approach to diversity – the langue of power and privilege, or the language of American capaciousness – is better for multiculturalism?
Two Futures
Commencement address I gave at Honors Convocation at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at College of Wooster.