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AEI Citizenship – The Body Politic
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Follow Us on Facebook. Follow Us on Twitter. The Body Politic Archive. 8220;The Professions and Civic Life” arriving June 15, 2016. This volume on the professions and civic life undertakes a unique and timely examination of 12 individual professions to see how each affects the character of American citizenship and the civic culture of the nation through their practices and ethos. What is distinctive or not about the specific profession as it came to be practiced in the United States? The composition of t...
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About | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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We’re Dan and Sindiso Mnisi Weeks. Welcome to our blog. For the handful of you out there who haven’t been (op)pressed into reading our blog because you’re related to us or a friend, here’s a bit of our backstory. We come from rural New Hampshire, USA (1% black) and urban South Africa (9% white), respectively. We have been fortunate to call both countries with all their marvellous messiness home. Unlikely as our marriage was, we’d like to pay our respects to our matchmakers: Uncle Cecil. Hence, this blog.
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Things for ((sub)urban) black persons to consider before marrying a white person | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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Things for ( sub)urban) black persons to consider before marrying a white person. July 21, 2014. All the while, I marvelled at some of my white kin’s simultaneous ingenuity and insanity. Who would think to come all the way out here in the woods and build a tick-surrounded cabin that is basically inaccessible by any other means than by canoe … unless they had no other choice? My in-laws did this by choice! I could not but ask God: “is this some kind of joke you’re playing on me? 8221; That’s a wholl...
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Subtle Indignities: Why We Should Still “See” Race – Part 2 | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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Subtle Indignities: Why We Should Still See Race Part 2. February 10, 2015. When I speak at academic conferences, it sometimes feels like I am a disembodied head, so few are people who look like me in the space :). Last post I gave the example of having suffered a subtle indignity linked to my social identity as a black woman at a professional dinner. Now I turn to a different situation. This might seem like a very bold (if not unsubstantiable) claim and perhaps a little unfair toward my students? To be ...
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Race and politics: A race to the bottom in NH | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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Race and politics: A race to the bottom in NH. Posted by Daniel Weeks. November 2, 2014. Race and politics: A race to the bottom in NH. Some of my good friends call me “Wholesome” and I don’t complain. There’s no secret that I idealize my small-town New Hampshire upbringing, where the farm, the woods, and the baseball field were my primary occupations after school. Eating porridge around the breakfast table as a family, my father would read us excerpts from. The Book of Virtues. For ConVal students and t...
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When Systems Kill Our Youth | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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When Systems Kill Our Youth. Posted by Daniel Weeks. September 1, 2014. A young man in Detroit protesting the Trayvonn Martin verdict in 2013. This column appeared in. On August 20, 2014). If I am blessed to someday raise a son, the same will not be true for him. Black males eventual prison time. Sociologists call this system the school-to-prison pipeline. For them, it was simply the status quo. According to the CATO Institute, nearly 5,000 unique reports. Of police misconduct involving 6,613 police offi...
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Subtle Indignities: Why We Should Still “See” Race – Part 3 | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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Subtle Indignities: Why We Should Still See Race Part 3. May 1, 2015. After my last post (my intermission), I wasn’t sure I wanted to proceed with my series of blog posts. Ironically, I was feeling a little fatigued of talking about the need for race consciousness (colour bravery). What happened in Baltimore has been shocking, infuriating, confusing and heartbreaking. I do think my gender plays a meaningful role in the personal experiences I have described in my first two posts but I hope my “femin...
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Causes | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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Khartoum, Sudan (Dan). It’s been a joy to work with a small non-profit, Kids for Kids, which has been bringing relief in the form of goat and donkey loans, and a wide range of other supports, to dozens of villages in northern Darfur since 2001. Founded by the indomitable Patricia Parker MBE. To Kids for Kids will go toward the following needs:. 15 = Heavy blanket for children in winter. 25 = Donkey plough for food production. 32 = Goat for loan to a family for milk. Johannesburg, South Africa (Sindiso).
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Intermission: A Black African’s View on New England Winter | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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Intermission: A Black African’s View on New England Winter. March 17, 2015. When the snow ain’t pretty (no more) …. One day last November, I went into the gym at 4.30pm, when it was reasonably light outside, and came out at 5.30pm to find it pitch black. My thoughts: “eish, mara what am I doing in this misery? I got into the car … On NPR. Melissa Block was talking to Ms. Hazard (I think that’s her real name, actually! Ms Block then asked Ms. Hazard if, having lived (. I’m not sure. For crying out loud.
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When ‘reasonable belief’ is unreasonable and unjust | _MIXED _UP _BLOG
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When ‘reasonable belief’ is unreasonable and unjust. December 7, 2014. After Officer Darren Wilson was acquitted by the grand jury in Ferguson, MO, for unarmed Michael Brown’s killing (when stopped for jaywalking), Staten Island officer, Daniel Pantaleo, was similarly not indicted after choking Eric Garner to death when all he’d been doing was selling loose cigarettes (tax evasion). This article appeared in The Concord Monitor on Sunday, November 30, 2014). To justify his use of deadly force and escape p...
