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Caliifornia State University, Dominguez Hills Discussion Topics and Painting Topics Posted!
Hey, Mom, Look at Us! Our counter statistics for March! Congratulations to us! We're having discourse with the authors of our texts! Art Exhibits Coming Up
Review of the Exhibit in Black Collegian Online. Do make an effort to see this. I'll post a time and meeting place if some of you want to go as a field trip. Don't miss the four paintings to which you can link at the bottom of the Black Collegian Online file. One of my favorites is Easter.
You Gotta Read This!
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest Update: April 4, 2001
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A Paradigm Shift to Alterity Tuesday's Theory Lecture
Information for Understanding the Structurally Violent Teachers of Our Children
Paper accepted to American Society of Criminology Susan Takata wrote on Wednesday, March 28, 2001: "just got our paper accepted to the ASC meetings in Atlanta in November: the one called "transforming the imaginary!" add that to your resumes." Transforming the imaginary and "Susan and Mac and Gale on our imaginary! A slice of the life of writing academic papers. Susan formatted the file. Thanks, Susan.
Transforming the imaginary: Discovering the Link Between Teaching and Criminological Research
Respect, That We Do No Harm Pictures that were missing are now uploaded. My fault. Sorry! This is the file in which we talk about rules for the infrastructure to permit all to exercise their agency as fully as possible. See Respecting Each Other, student comments on this issue. Up soon! jeanne
A Climate of Learning In Which We Can All Focus Keyana Woolen. Theory class. A shared comment leads us to understand how varied our validity claims are, and the level of affect that surrounds them.
California African American Museum, Celebration and Vision:The Hewitt Collection of African American Art. Ends April 15.
600 State Drive, Exposition Park, L.A. Tue.-Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
What about attending the panel discussion from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, April 8, 2001, on African-American Imagery through the Harlem Renaissance?
New tags so we can find our way through the birdie page as I add things all week long.
NOW As A Goldfish 
Includes discussion questions on anomic suicide, social fact, and alienation.
Check out the new student page so you can locate each other's discussion groups and work together across classes.
Author Index I just started to catch this up, so you can find each other's work more easily. This is going to take a while. Your job: e-mail me when you haven't yet been included, if you can tell me the file you published in. If you don't know the file name, you'll need to wait until I find it by going through the site. I'm going to file by first AND last names, at least for students, because we sometimes only remember one or the other.
The Sokal Hoax A delightful and erudite practical joke played on those "liberals" who believe that the "Other" must be heard in the interest of justice as fairness.
Why cultural Theory Sometimes Sucks Delightful examples of bad academic writing. Fits right in with Sokal's Hoax.
The Guelphs!
Shared Readings: Languages Other Than English:
Spanish Origen del Movimiento Campesino en Ecuador La primera Ley de Reforma Agraria del país. On Native Web Site, maintained by Mark Becker.
Spanish and German. On Bureaucracy by Javier Fdez. Retenaga on Progressive Sociologists Net. Essay and translation on transformation possibilities in the economics of software treated as a market commodity. Compare to recent discussions on North and South land tenure. (Spivak. Postcolonialism.) Teaching essay up soon.
Spanish Construyendo la Paz.
Shared Comments on Readings:
On Respecting Others by Agnes Simpson. Moot court class. Why is it so hard for some people?
Art as Social Consciousness Raising: "People are afraid to connect." Teresa Mason's experience with painting.
Shared Online Readings: English
On the Yanomami Crisis in Anthropology jeanne's notes from the American Anthropology Association Meetings session on Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado.
The Making of the President, 2000 by Garry Wills, New York Times, April 1, 2001. Good follow-up on our discussion of the election last Fall.
k.i.s.s. of the Panopticon Run by Dougie Bicket. Site devoted to critical theory, cultural theory, media literacy, new media literacy, visual literacy.
Temporality and Alterity: Dimensions of Hermeneutic Distance Jay L. Garfield, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College. This is long and involved, but clearly written. For those of you interested in how we shall manage to communicate and live peacefully in such a diverse world of traditions and beliefs, this is a good reference. I'll put up discussion questions later. Backup.
Teaching Essays:
Oppression and Revolution, Part I by jeanne and Susan Takata. Answers to the discussion questions will have to go up tomorrow. It's 10 p.m. on Sunday night, and I quit. And the file is not completely formatted. Please be patient. It's a whole book. jeanne
Respect, That We Do No Harm
A Pardigm Shift to Alterity: Transforming Discourse Story of our attempt to turn our classrooms into communities in which differences are honored and all are treated with respect.
The Visual Social Image and Dominant Discourse How what we see affects how we interpret events and feelings into the framework of dominant discourse. Review and teaching essay on the oppression of minority status: privileged subjectivity of dominant discourse lags behind social facts.
Words, Words, Words: What Do They Mean? Detecting the meaning of professional jargon that the common dictionaries do not include.
Developing the Imaginary: What Schools Can Do to Teach Peacemaking
Transforming the Imaginary: Discovering the Link Between Teaching and Crime Prevention
Class Pages:
I decided that Class Pages was a better description than Test Preparation, so I changed the title.
Research Papers in Preparation: