Friday, March 28, 2014

Forgot - teaching on class differences -

I forgot -

When I taught on class differences, I 1st started with discussion of a relatively obvious example of how exclusionary behavior works - namely, racially-themed frat parties at the Univ. of Michigan and elsewhere, which led students to say that a hostile environment could lead people to feel unwelcome and shut them down, and that the idea that "here isn't a place for people like us" could keep people from coming to that school in the 1st place, and to the extent that that happened, it would decrease the range of viewpoints and the vibrancy of academic discussion.

Then, I extended that to class.

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