On the lighter side, Lydia Lum chronicles her first experience in an online course, where she says the term "race blind" took on new meaning. Although she wondered about her classmates' race and ethnicity, she says it was their talent and life experiences that truly shaped who they were.
Lastly, race may not have been the focus of Lydia's online course but it was the focus of a recent New York conference. Kendra Hamilton attended the three-day conference, "The State of Black Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research," sponsored by the Schomburg Center and Princeton University. The conference, which drew hundreds of scholars, featured panels on queer studies, teaching Black studies, and Black literary and historical traditions, just to name a few. And though there was a meeting of the minds on several issues related to the discipline's current state and future, a new generation of scholars made it known that they view some things a little differently.
Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Editor
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