Today is the Inauguration. Monday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. As a scholar of race and equity, I have complicated feelings about both, particularly around how people choose to recognize them. The mixture of capitalism and nationalism and calls to action feel out of touch with the lived experiences of so many people inContinue reading “What Tomorrow Brings”
Category Archives: racial justice
Believing in the Great American Experiment
A few years ago I conducted a study with Indigenous students about their experiences in college. One of the questions I asked the students was who they thought higher education benefited. I initially assumed that Indigenous students would think that this was white people, given that the system of higher education was designed for whiteContinue reading “Believing in the Great American Experiment”
Why I’m Not Meeting People Where They’re At Anymore
Last week I gave two separate talks on similar topics. At the University of Michigan, a colleague and I presented the following, Examining the Hard Truths of Whiteness and Maleness in Engineering Education. Two days later, I spoke with faculty at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga at a talk I titled No, We Don’t Live inContinue reading “Why I’m Not Meeting People Where They’re At Anymore”
Doing Indian Country Research 