I used to use "Assume best intentions" as a guideline in my classrooms. It made sense at time time. My goal, looking back, was to diffuse tension and avoid conflict when possible. (I am personally ver
If there's one thing I have learned as a cultural historian, it is that change happens with agonizing slowness until it doesn't. The present moment, in which a string of racist murders of black people
Part 1 of this post series is available here. We're seeing a lot of useful information about racism, anti-blackness, and good white allyship circulating on the internet. This is heartening-- there's a