Archive for July 28th, 2009
Professor Gates and the Criminalization of Black Men in America
If racism is understood only in terms of slavery and lynching, then we might live in a post-racial era. But this is not an accurate view of how racism and discrimination work. Racist violence still takes place, but today discrimination more often occurs in seemingly little ways, in treatment that, if viewed as isolated events seem to not amount to much. However, psychological research lends support for these individual experiences of African Americans.
PW On Cambridge 425!
Publisher’s Weekly this week features an article about 425 years of evolution at Cambridge University Press.
Interns Blog: Grammar Nazism vs. Common Sense
Now, I’ve been called a Grammar Nazi many times over, but I do believe there is a clear difference between a person truly deserving of that unfortunate title and others, like myself, who believe that some rules should just be common knowledge for native speakers of the English language.
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