Slides for AJS Commons workshop that give an overview of the ways to develop a professional online presence, collaborate, and share scholarship on AJS Commons and Humanities Commons.

Emergent mobile technologies offer museum professionals new ways of engaging visitors with their collections. Museums are powerful learning environments and mobile technology can enable visitors to experience the narratives in museum objects and galleries and integrate them with their own personal reflections and interpretations. UCL‟s QRator p…[Read more]

Guest presentation in Projects in Rare Book Digitization course (Pratt University, LIS 666) on analyzing digitized books and printed materials with digital humanities methods (primarily text analysis).

Racism is a tool the ruling class uses to make sure workers don’t get together and get rid of them. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has articulated the same insight in reference to the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent Women’s Marches. But that phenomenon–wrenching–can and does happen in many struggles, both between and within many social…[Read more]

It is difficult to guide the racially unknowing, ignorant, and fragile (read: most white people) to an understanding of these ideas, so explanations rejecting reverse racism fall short. I came up with a metaphor to do this. I call it the game metaphor. Its purpose is to show why there is no such thing as reverse racism without using any concepts…[Read more]

Intersectionality and marxism are not on great terms, supposedly.[1] While some thinkers and activists recognize the need for intersectional insights in research and organizing, others maintain more negative attitudes and analyses towards such insights. The negative attitudes and analyses combine a new resent with the old tension between feminist…[Read more]

Interview with me about my book ‘Elements of Discussion’.

Ideology is everywhere in political speaking, writing, and conversing. The sooner everyone in the debate about fake news gets comfortable with this basic concept, the better.