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BA Collins, 30 Years Ago
Pitt logo, the one closest to what was on their brochures in April 1986, April 12, 2016. (http://pitt.edu). As I have said in a couple of places this week, this time three decades ago I completed my...
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The Unbearable Whiteness of White Proximity Fuses, Part II
Front cover of my copy of Rebecca Carroll’s Surviving the White Gaze, July 3, 2021. (Donald Earl Collins) The other and more direct parallel with Carroll’s journal in Surviving the White Gaze that...
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Eric The Red
Bryan Cranston as Walter White (“bald” edition) in AMC’s Breaking Bad (screen shot, cropped), August 2011. All these years with this blog and I’ve never written about the first of the people who came...
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I’ve Been An Educator for 30 Years
Me with my old Duquesne University ID, where I taught in 1998 and 1999, May 2017. (Donald Earl Collins) It’s a bittersweet anniversary for me. Thirty years since the first time I was in a classroom as...
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While My PhD’s Getting Cold…
Cold, lumpy grits, September 26, 2013. (HuffPost via Flickr: Marshall Astor – Food Fetishist). I have been Dr. Donald Earl Collins for almost half my life. (It will be exactly half my life on October...
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The Black Man-White Woman Matrix
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix (1999) chained up (screen shot), accessed October 14, 2021. (https://racism.org/articles/defining-racism/338-thematrixa). There have been and will be tons...
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The Elite Jerkiness of Journalistic “Genius,” aka, Advanced White-Mansplaining
John Hodgman quote via QuoteFancy, January 29, 2022. (https://quotefancy.com/quote/2072271/John-Hodgman-After-all-there-s-no-mansplaining-like-white-mansplaining-cause-white) I am most definitely not...
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Being One of The Expendables
Poster art (cropped) and tattoo art for The Expendables (2010), August 2, 2010. (https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-the-expendables-winged-skull-poster-art) Even in my relative...
View ArticleWhat Bull Durham and I Have in Common
“Well, 247 home runs in the minor-leagues would be a…kind of dubious honor.” Bull Durham, 1988. Today marks two occasions, both of them a bit bittersweet. One, I marched and picked up my doctorate on...
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The Raunchiest of Them All
BWP’s only fully released album The Bytches (1991) album cover (cropped and with reduced clarity), August 1, 2022. (https://www.rapmusicguide.com). A few months ago, I watched part of my Twitter feed...
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