Category: Class & Status

  • Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound

    Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound

                            Newark’s Fall From Grace and its Potential Rebound   As I walk around the current surroundings near my dorm located within Vodra Hall at New Jersey City University, I find myself rejoicing in my environment filled with life. I frequently hear the pleasant, almost […]

  • Chapter 3: The Burger Boycott and the Ballot Box

      The Summer of 1968 marked a dangerous time immediately after MLK’s assassination – racial tensions were high throughout the United States, and Mayor Stokes’ main goal was to avoid further riots in Cleveland, Ohio. White and Black businesses had been destroyed by the riots, and Cleveland needed something new to take root and provide […]

  • Discussion of Numbered Lives, Ch 5: From Surveying Land to Surveilling Man (Leelan Farhan)

    This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — In this chapter, Wernimont expands upon the Anglo-American fascination with tracking self-knowledge through an explication of the history of the pedometer. From analog compasses originally designed […]

  • Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction (Jon Heggestad)

    Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction (Jon Heggestad)

    This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — Introduction In the introduction of Numbered Lives, Jacqueline Wernimont situates her work in a number of disciplinary frameworks, theories, and methods, while simultaneously demonstrating how and […]

  • Is College Worth It? People Who Are Worth A Lot Think So!

    Is College Worth It? People Who Are Worth A Lot Think So!

    [Illustration from “You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s CollegeChances,” By Gregor Aisch, Amanda Cox, and Kevin Quealy, New York Times, May 28, 2015. https://nyti.ms/2jX8zue ]*   Someone forgot to tell the rich and powerful that college isn’t worth anything.  I asked on Twitter: “Does anyone know a study that shows what percentage of […]

  • Not All Things are Fair… Yet Education Should Be

    Not All Things are Fair… Yet Education Should Be

    Due to the lack of federal funding teachers have been forced to use money out of their own pockets to purchase basic supplies for their class to provide a suitable education for the students.  Even the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten states, “There is no other job I know of where […]

  • Is Segregation Still Alive In The Classroom?

    Is Segregation Still Alive In The Classroom?

    Is Segregation Still Alive In The Classroom? For over 50 years segregation has ended. However, is when we step into classrooms, walk on school campuses, look at test scores or even athletics programs, we realize segregation is still present. Indeed, there are vastly different opportunities available to students and teachers from less affluent backgrounds and […]

  • Using GIS to remap agriculture from the worker’s point of view

    Using GIS to remap agriculture from the worker’s point of view

    I want to share with you all – and seek your collective wisdom about – a mapping project that I have been working on intermittently for the past year, and a version of which I presented this past fall at the Pacific Northwest History Conference under the title “Putting Workers on the Map: Agricultural Atlases, […]