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Bringing Sexy Back: The ‘Critilicious’ and Theoretical Framing

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, January 6, 2012

There’s a new wave in scholarship or perhaps it’s the way we have always operated. Nevertheless, it seems like we, some scholars, are looking for the next “really cool” theoretical framework. Sort of like the newest dance craze or hot new trendy outfit, everyone’s “doing it or wearing it.” Now this

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TPFKARLH: The Professor Formerly Known as R.L. Hughes

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, December 22, 2010

I am protesting. I am not wearing a T-shirt. I am not adding an X to my name. I am not writing my name in all small letters or wearing a black arm band (but I wish that I had thought of all those brilliant forms of protest!). Instead, while

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Dangerous Liaisons: Christie, Colored Friend of Tiffany

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, September 7, 2010

The 2003 International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education article, Tiffany, Friend of People of Color: White Investments in Antiracism, by Dr. Audrey Thompson is a powerful scholarly article on whiteness and the problematic nature of keeping Whiteness at the center of antiracism. It is

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Gaslight: Proving Institutionalized Racism

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 25, 2010

  In a recent talk, I stated that institutional and structural racist systems of opportunity and privilege still exist in the academy. Noticing the pushback — furrowed brows looked like neon signs plastered on folks’ foreheads — I engaged them in a conversation that went something as follows:  Search committees talk about the

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Tennis Anyone? Race and Class Still Matter in Sports

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 12, 2010

Here we go again. Yet another basketball player had the nerve to play a sport, receive a large check in lieu of the Horatio Alger meta-narrative that one can easily pull oneself up by their bootstraps and make it by hard work and determination in a fair and democratic society.

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