Tag: social justice

“Black children continue to be unconsciously trained to correlate blackness with wrongness and whiteness with rightness.”

Let’s start with this idea: linguists do not designate any language as being superior.  And yet, when I teach my students to write academic essays in “standard” English, I am in fact telling them what language I believe is superior.  Baker-Bell argues that “standard” English is a construct created by … Read More

“You’re not going to be able to deal with this problem alone.”

The most radical idea in Johann Hari’s Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions is that treatment for depression shouldn’t focus on medication only.  Because depression has three kinds of causes – biological, psychological and social – treatment plans should include multiple responses and … Read More