Three Things Folks Get Wrong When They Research Communities of Color
They assume that because they grew up in a community of color, they know how to …
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Can Academics Have Non-Academic Interests? Or The Academic Politics of Respectability
Deciding to start a blog, pursue my freelance writing dreams, start a business AND pursue a …
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What Does it Mean to do Culturally Competent Research?
As I’m in the process of developing my research consulting business, one question I’m asked pretty …
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Drug Testing for Public Housing & Welfare is a Terrible Idea
I began my research in Chicago public housing developments during the spring of 2011. At this …
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Living Life on a Grad Student Budget
One of the things that I spend a lot of time worrying about is money. …
Bad Data Makes Social Welfare Advocacy Harder Than it Should Be
Last week The Atlantic published a piece about an oft-cited portion of census data. In 2007, …
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Things to Remember When Researching in Communities of Color
When I began my dissertation work in a public housing development in Chicago, one of the …
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Rejection isn’t the Worst Thing
[my memere: an ancestor who teaches me about courage daily] One of the things that I …
Writing Dreams
When I was a little girl my dream was to live in New York in an …
Detroit is Not a Metaphor
Last week I went home to Detroit to attend the funeral of a loved one. While …