“You like what?” “I like girls with that light complexion look.” “You’re a moron.” “Man I can’t help it.” “What, being a moron?” “Yeah that too.” “You’re the first one out there with a dashiki talking that shit.” “I’m a…
English 5870
Ferguson: Potato Chips & Jail Cells
by fsnowden • • 2 Comments
Ferguson’s article struck several cords in that I understand her point from a detached, academic way as well as from a more frustratingly personal viewpoint. She mentions that studies have shown that African American males in schools all over the…
Believe The Hype
by Mike • • 2 Comments
“don’t believe the hype” (by Ann Ferguson, early 1990’s) This article is an ethnographic analysis of racism, but it is also an ethnographic “memoir.” Ferguson gives an account of the interplay between the “institution” (Rosa Parks Elementary), and the black…
Commentary #9
by arussell • • 2 Comments
Adam Russell Poverty Institutes the Division Probably the most disturbing observation Ferguson makes in “Don’t Believe the Hype,” is when she points out the disparity between students at the Elementary level that continue onto high school: “Many of the…
Hip-hop and “The Creature”
by Keri • • 3 Comments
In the first chapter, titled “Don’t believe the hype,” of her book author Ann Ferguson confirms my belief that students live up or down to the expectations placed on them by the school system and larger society. I remember from…
Commentary of Pryer
by mgarcia5 • • 5 Comments
Maria J. Garcia Commentary for 4/28/09 “Imagining Educational Research: On the Uses of Fiction in Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry” Author: Allison Pryer Allison Pryer’s article brings up, when quoting Kathleen Rockhill “the boundaries of the speakable” and the concept of…
Commentary – Pryer
by Amble • • 4 Comments
“The writing of memoir may be understood as a hermeneutical process that serves as entry point into a community of discursive relationships. It is a living practice, at once hopeful and uncertain, which necessarily involves the creation of fictions –…
Pryer commentary
by nweidner • • 2 Comments
I too am sometimes disenchanted with academia because the required writing style and research methods can be so rigid and don’t often allow much for voice, regardless of what some research and scholars want us to believe. Pryer attempts to…
On Pryer, Ethnology, and Memoir—Huginn and Muninn
by James • • 1 Comment
James D. Dyer Dr. Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Working “at the edge of incompetence” is what Elliot Eisner (in Saks (Ed.), 1996,p. 412) calls the risky practice of courting the unknown in one’s research practice. If we can…
English 5870 Pryer: Ultimately Unclear
by fsnowden • • 1 Comment
At first glance, Pryer’s article seems to cover the same issues as Brueggemann, Sunstein and in some ways Purcell-Gates. Like Brueggemann, she describes issues of personal struggle when dealing with academic research and similar to Sunstein, she suggests the use…