[A_perfect_lady]

He got a B.A. in 2002, and from his photo he is fairly young. I'm guessing early 30s. No mention of a Master's Degree, so he was pipe-lined straight into a Ph.D. program (a short cut usually reserved for minorities in extremely soft subjects, from what I have seen, reflecting the university's eagerness to produce minority doctorates. I may be wrong, of course.) No mention of any other languages so that requirement was perhaps waived, or maybe it doesn't exist for Sociology. To get into the Ph.D. program in anthropology, I had to demonstrate proficiency in French and take two years of a third language.

So this fellow has been lobbed educational softballs since 1998, it looks like. No mention of any professional experience other than lecturing college kids and opining in think-tanks. No mention of any real contact with the kinds of children he's writing about. I'll stand by my diagnosis of chronic insular ignorance and reiterate that actually being responsible for teaching one full year of, say, history in South Central, or inner-city Chicago, would absolutely finish him off.

[mrsmel]

i’d like to know app where he lives-if he runs true to form, it’s in a safe, majority-white upper middle class enclave.

[thecodont]

Thanks for your perspective on him. Unhappy situation that such people are “recycled” from these programs straight into a teaching position, eh? What a revolving door that is.

[raybbr]

I'll stand by my diagnosis of chronic insular ignorance and reiterate that actually being responsible for teaching one full year of, say, history in South Central, or inner-city Chicago, would absolutely finish him off.

I say there is no "ignorance". He's fully aware of what he writes and believes. The only thing missing from his indoctrination, or CC, is attending a church that teaches black theology. I would bet that he might have attended a "church" much like Jeramiah Wright's church.