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Empowerment Starts Here

Dec 11, 2018

To be critical is to understand all events, experiences and phenomenon by examining their relationship with the social world.  One who is critical accepts the social world as a series of interconnecting systems ...usually enacted to maintain current distributions of power. 

In this episode, the hosts considers how two...


Nov 20, 2018

In this episode, the informant talks about three levels of power shifting:  the power shift that happens at the classroom level when whiteness is de-centered in the literature read by black and brown students; at the local level when gentrification takes over black and brown communities; and at the global level when...


Nov 13, 2018

In this episode, four ESH returns come back to talk about a common theme they share: being white, male and privileged.   In this conversation is Chris Thinnes from Ep03 (The Case of Allyship in Context); Peter Anderson from Ep09 (The Case of Gradelessness); Dr. Paul Thomas from Ep10 (The Case of Critical Literacy) and...


Nov 6, 2018

In this episode, the informant models what it means to be unapologetic around issues relating to women.  She talks boldly about birth control, about abortions as a reproductive right, about being child-free, and about her relationship with women of color and queer women.  Also in this conversation, you will learn that...


Oct 30, 2018

In this episode, the host talks about property, power and prestige as conditions of social class; about class inconsistency and class stratification; and about the consequences of a social class system.  To access detailed notes for this episode along with a list of the resources mentioned, click...