You may have noticed that Dickinson College is offering several programs that celebrate Latinx culture and recognize the valuable contributions of Hispanic Americans to our country’s history. The Popel Shaw Center has proudly chosen Familismo as this year’s theme for Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff lunch which was held on September 15th. Below I share some…
Contempt for political correctness has been pervasive this summer. It has been a continuing thread in the political rhetoric of the Presidential election (see here and here for examples). Political correctness has been a common theme in the plethora of blog posts and media coverage about trigger warnings in the classroom (see here and here)….
I just finished reading Amy T. Schalet’s 2011 book Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex (University of Chicago Press), winner of the Healthy Teen Network’s Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education and the American Sociological Association’s Children and Youth Section’s 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award. It’s a…