{"id":2771,"date":"2006-09-26T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/26\/bunch-o-links-92606\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T17:10:21","slug":"bunch-o-links-92606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Bunch-O-Links 9\/26\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Ebogjonson (via Prometheus 6)<\/a> has this humorous\/serious flow chart<\/a> for people who want to put blackface on their blogs. It won’t fit all on your screen at one time, but if you follow the arrows you’ll figure it out.<\/p>\n

2. Harlow’s Monkey has a follow-up to my transracial adoption post<\/a>. She adds several other frames for TRA stories in mass media.<\/p>\n

3. C.N. Le has a good post on retaining graduate students from racial and ethnic minority groups<\/a>. This post sheds light on the important issue of campus and departmental climate and other issued related to retention. Often, professors have the “numerical critical mass perspective” where the entire focus is on increasing the number of students of color who enroll. Faculty members often forget that the problem is not only getting people in the door, but getting them through the program. It may surprise people to know where some of the best departments for graduating students of color are located. In 2004 Washington State University<\/a>, which is located in a rural nearly all white area, was honored for it’s record by the American Sociological Association for its record in graduating students of color (I think they have fallen off in recent years, but at one point they had an amazing record.). The University of Utah is another place that seems to do well at recruiting and retaining minority faculty members; I have been particularly impressed with how many African American, Latino, and Asian sociologists are there<\/a> (not all in sociology, but nevertheless at the university). One other sociology department that I think has a surprising number of African American graduate students is the University of Nebraska Lincoln<\/a>, and they seem to be doing a decent job of retaining these students since at least three of the Black sociologists I have met from there are now graduates. Many departments use the excuse–“we are just not located in an area where a lot on minority students would want to be.” I’m absolutley sure that this does make a difference, but this also becomes a sort of lame excuse not to work to keep departments and Universities racially diverse.<\/p>\n

4. Another Conflict Theorist has a great post on Barbaro and the extraordinary efforts to save him. The post is a fabulous dose of sarcasm and critical theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. Feminist Allies has a good post, whose comments were highjacked by men’s rights activists, about what men can do to be perceived as non-threatening<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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