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“Black children continue to be unconsciously trained to correlate blackness with wrongness and whiteness with rightness.”

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Kate Stover

Let’s start with this idea: linguists do not designate any language as being superior.  And yet, when I teach my students to write academic essays in “standard” English, I am in fact telling them what language I believe is superior.  … Continue reading →

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“You’re not going to be able to deal with this problem alone.”

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Kate Stover

The most radical idea in Johann Hari’s Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions is that treatment for depression shouldn’t focus on medication only.  Because depression has three kinds of causes – biological, psychological … Continue reading →

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