by Tom DeWolf | Dec 6, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Last April I attended the White Privilege Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote about it in this blog. Dr. Abby Ferber is a professor of sociology, women’s studies, and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She helps...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 20, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Douglas A. Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is one of the most harrowing books I’ve read in a long time–and one of the most important. My sense of the Jim Crow era has...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 18, 2008 | Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Dr. Maya Angelou inspires millions of people with her poetry and her wisdom. Her poem “Still I Rise” is one I’ve read several times recently. You can watch her perform it here on You Tube. I must admit that The Early Show, with anchor Harry Smith,...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 12, 2008 | Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege
In response to my last blog post written the night of the election I received a private query from an individual with whom I’m quite close. I’m fairly certain this individual did not vote for Barack Obama, but I haven’t asked. The question posed to...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 4, 2008 | Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege
When I was in the fourth grade my dad asked me to create a list of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up. He asked me to give it to my teacher so he could tell me what I needed to do in school in order to acheive my dreams and goals. I recall with clarity at...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 24, 2008 | Coming to the Table, Inheriting the Trade, Politics, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
Did you see Douglas Blackmon’s (author of the powerful book I’m currently reading, Slavery by Another Name) October 17 article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Two Families Named McCain?” This is exactly the kind of history–John...
