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Post by profklein on Sept 19, 2017 1:18:27 GMT
I'm so old I had to look up what a "positionality" paper is, even though I've been teaching since 2000. I'm 51; I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and live there now, although I went to school at Harvard, then at Berkeley, then back at Harvard, and then at UCLA; and have taught in Houston, Texas (at TSU); in Albany, NY; in St. Petersburg, FL; and in both northern and southern California. I currently teach at the University of La Verne, an HSI with more than 50% students of color at all levels including the law school, where I teach. So I'm a white Jewish middle-aged divorced woman, mother of two adult children, who lives not far from where I grew up, but who has had a pretty elite education. I was Kim Crenshaw's student at the UCLA School of Law, and later her TA; I was at the Harvard Law School in the early days of CRT, and am pretty widely read in the 1st generation of CRT scholarship. Since then, most of my academic work has focused on gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity - so it has an intersectional dimension but not focused primarily on race. I come from a liberal (meaning, I would say, "integrationist") family on issues of race - tolerance mixed with more White supremacy than anyone would care to admit. But my mother (born 1941) became much more radicalized around race through Africa/AIDS work she began doing in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
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