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PROFESSOR PICKLE

Let me slow it down, stop callin' my city a town

About Me

My friends call me PICKLE. I got the name when I was young and was sprayed with pickle juice from a super soaker. I smelled like pickle for 3 days after that incident.
I currently have 2 jobs, although I have spent the majority of my life trying to avoid work. I currently work as an adjunct faculty member for DePaul University in the both the Education and Sociology departments where I teach "Multiculturalism in Education" and "Introduction to Sociology." I have also taught "White Studies & Eradicating White Racism" in the International Studies department at DePaul.I also work at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine where I do research involving health disparities among kidney transplant recipients.
In my spare time, I drink large quantities of mojitos at this place called Morseland in Rogers Park and afterparty at the Top Hat also on Morse Avenue. Social justice is my passion and I try to do as much as possible to fight inequality based on race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and disability, although like many people, I could do much more. However, I do try to join and participate in collectivities aimed at addressing these various forms of injustice.
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Music:

GQ and Iomos in Milwaukee
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K-OS [This man is a genius], Copperpot, Longshot, Coppershot,Verbal Kent, Metal Fingers Doom, Del, Ang 13, Psalm 1, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Blueprint, Dead Prez, Common Sense, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Profound, JUICE, Immortal Technique, Living Legends, Zion I, Aesop Rock, Typical Cats, Heiroglyphics, The Clan of Wu, Swollen Members [but only the earlier shit], Sole, Solillaquists of Sound, Lab Rats, The Pacifics,Diverse, Modill, SMP, The Opus, Primeridian, Cap D, Rita J, All Natural, Molemen, anything underground from the CHI-ILL, but preferably somewhat socially conscious. CopperShot album "Issues" in stores soon!!! Guests on the album include KRS ONE, Diverse, Psalm One, Akbar, Ka Di, and the UK's Braintax.

Television:

I watch college basketball and Major League Baseball.

Books:

White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (This Cat has shaped my view of Racism);White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva;Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva; The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz;Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations by Joe R. Feagin;

Heroes:

James Baldwin

W.E.B. Dubois

Angela Davis

Fred Hampton Jr.

Fred Hampton

James Brown

R.I.P. J Dilla the G.O.A.T.

My Blog

Don Imus, Hip Hop, and more

Passing the Buck and Missing the Point: Don Imus, White Denial and Racism in America By Tim Wise April 15, 2007 Let us dispense with the easy stuff, shall we? First, Don Imus's free speech ri...
Posted by PROFESSOR PICKLE on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

Systemic Racism

Aug. 12, 1999 Of Hate Crimes, Big and Small By Time Wise There is no question so irrelevant as the one to which all or nearly all can respond in like fashion. Thus, asking people their views on ch...
Posted by PROFESSOR PICKLE on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:04:00 PST

Whiteness Studies: what I do

WhitenessSandronsky interviews Roediger by David Roediger and Seth Sandronsky; December 01, 2005 David Roediger, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a sc...
Posted by PROFESSOR PICKLE on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:56:00 PST

Anti-racist readings. Check out some of these!!!

James Baldwin. The Price of the Ticket: Collected NonFiction; or Collected Essays, including Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name; The Fire Next Time, No Name In The Street, etc..) Stephen Stei...
Posted by PROFESSOR PICKLE on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:12:00 PST

On Affirmative Action

Whites Swim In Racial Preference by Tim Wise; Alternet; February 23, 2003 Ask a fish what water is and you'll get no answer. Even if fish were capable of speech, they would likely have no expla...
Posted by PROFESSOR PICKLE on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:25:00 PST