Allison Harbin, PhD

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Summer of ill & other indictments...

June 21, 2022 by Allison Harbin in Neoliberal Trashfires

N.S.F.S is back with a note on toxic masculinity in the wake of the Uvalde shooting and James Baldwin knowledge. While Baldwin doesn’t use that term per se, I think he would have found it a useful shorthand for how he describes the “American boy” in his essay “Nothing Personal.”

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June 21, 2022 /Allison Harbin
James Baldwin, Uvalde, Toxic masculinity, public schools
Neoliberal Trashfires
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When the going gets tough...

May 03, 2022 by Allison Harbin in Neoliberal Trashfires

I discuss James Baldwin’s words as a balm for writer’s burnout, what we do when we feel our activism has made no progress towards meaningful change, and worse, when things seem to be back sliding back into the racist and sexist dark ages.

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May 03, 2022 /Allison Harbin
James Baldwin, Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Anti-Racism, Education, Educational Equity, Writer's burn out
Neoliberal Trashfires
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The willful blindspots of whiteness, teacher gossip, and ethical nerds.

March 16, 2021 by Allison Harbin in Generic White Men, Melanin Deficiency & You

I've been reading what Black authors have to say about whiteness, ad James Baldwin's thinly veiled contempt for white privilege. Dr. Allison Harbin writes about James Baldwin and the defensiveness of white people when being called out in this Not Safe for School post.

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March 16, 2021 /Allison Harbin
Teacher gossip, ethical nerds, MLK, equity, Charles Yu, James Baldwin, Paul Simon
Generic White Men, Melanin Deficiency & You
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