If you’re looking for something to do this March (I’m looking at you, students!), but you don’t have a passport, join the Librotraficante smuggling banned books across the great American Southwest: Or you can visit the press release here. The tour starts next Tuesday in Houston, TX. I’ve had some conversations with people, about [...]
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Librotraficante: An Alternative Spring Break
Posted in books, ethnic studies, events, multiculturalism, tagged Arizona, banned books, librotraficante on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Diversity. Happy.
Posted in education, information sciences, multiculturalism on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My grad program is only two years long. In many cases, we peripherally touch on very important topics because… I don’t know why. Maybe because the curriculum makers think cases like serving communities in crisis will only apply to a few of us, or they think ethical cases are best left to our own gleaming [...]
A Different Kind of Poor
Posted in education, information sciences, multiculturalism, tagged information poverty, systems of knowledge on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today, one of the slides in one of my classes said: When segment(s) of (a) population seems permanently ignorant, their state is labeled “info poverty” & has 3 characteristics: 1. Low level of processing skills, with reading, language, hearing, or eyesight deficiencies 2. Social isolation in subculture, leading to unawareness of info known to larger [...]
