[2ndDivisionVet]

Tressie McMillan Cottom is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

As a stratification scholar, Tressie considers what inequality means both experientially and empirically when corporations are people, supranational corporations like Facebook and Twitter shape the public square, and education is increasingly privatized. Her research primarily mines organizational arrangements and structural processes to better understand inequality across rapidly changing social domains. Her current work examines for-profit college credentials and inequality. She also has a developing research agenda that examines the political economy of emerging “new” media organizations.

Tressie lectures and publishes widely. She has been invited to speak on issues of education, race, gender, social movements and inequality at MIT, the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, Duke, UGA, GSU, UC-Irvine as well as national and international public policy agencies in Canada, New Zealand and across the U.S. Her public writing has appeared in Inside Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, Dissent Magazine, and The New York Times. Additionally, she has appeared on NPR and Dan Rather Reports. Her academic work has appeared in Contexts, WestJEM (forthcoming), and a textbook from Oxford University Press. Three papers are currently under review: an organizational analysis of admissions at for-profit colleges; an intersectional analysis of college choice among working class black and white women enrolled in for-profit colleges; and, the political economy of social media in identity movements.

In 2014, she was selected as a PhD Intern at the Microsoft Social Media Collective research labs in Cambridge, MA. That research project will examine how students use informal online spaces to form status identities and groups. The paper will be submitted for review. She is also a former research fellow at the Center for Poverty Research at UC-Davis. As a fellow, she wrote a public policy brief (forthcoming) that examines the link between 1996 changes that purported to “end welfare as we know it” and the rise in for-profit workforce credentials among poor women. She is honored to join the Barnard Center for Research on Women as an organizing consultant for their 40th anniversary Scholar & Feminist conference on gender and education.

With Sandy Darity of Duke University, she is the lead editor of “Profit U: The Rise of For-Profit Higher Education”, forthcoming from AERA books. A second book, a solo-authored manuscript on inequality and for-profit higher education, is under contract with The New Press. So far, her editors have not decided to kick her out of the fold.

Tressie considers teaching a foundational research activity. She teaches introductory sociology courses and has developed seminars in contemporary stratification (post-Great Recession), critical university studies, and technology and inequality. Her students seem to enjoy her pedagogical enthusiasm. To be fair, students do occasionally complain that she threatens to incorporate interpretative dance into lectures. Tressie assumes they doth protest too much.

She can be found at www.tressiemc.com and @tressiemcphd.

[DoodleDawg]

Few powerful persons or institutions have ever been willing to seriously put a reparations program before the American people.

Gee, I wonder why?

[beef]

If this goes through, I am investing in the fuzzy dice and fancy rim sectors.

[Fresh Wind]

“Stratification, experientially, empirically, suprantional, organizational arrangements, social domains, structural processes, research agenda, foundational, pedagogical, interpretive.”

I wonder how much she paid for all those expensive words?

[afraidfortherepublic]

I thought 20 acres and a mule was reparations.

[ryan71]

I have some good black friends. If they accept “reparations” they won’t be any more. I suspect that will be a common sentiment.

[AppyPappy]

Free government money.

rinse and repeat

[ThunderSleeps]

Wow, I feel so guilty over my white privilege I will gladly make it up to every slave I have ever owned. ;-/

[Texicanus]

I thought the South LOST the Civil War. Since they were defeated and no longer exist, the CSA is unable to pay reparations of any kind.

If the North freed the slaves from the southern slave owners and won the Civil War as they claim, then why do blacks claim reparations should be paid by their defenders.

I don’t recall any black reparation claims being made at the time of the surrender against the CSA. Their beef is/was with the CSA not the USA.

Not to take this lightly, many non-blacks on both sides died in the war. A dear price was paid. That should be enough reparations for their black ancestors.

[jughandle]

How’d that one go?
Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you’ve fed him for a lifetime..

[Flintlock]

Gimmie money.
Gimmie money.
gimmie money.
Rinse,
Repeat.

[IC Ken]

The first slaves in America were called Indentured Servants. They were white. History seems to have forgotten about them as most never were released from their contract.

[ExCTCitizen]

How about whites who came here as indentured servants? Will they get paid? How about the Slavics, since they were the first slaves (both have the same roots)?

[Rummyfan]

Tressie McMillan Cottom is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

For a PhD candidate, she's a lousy writer.

As for reparations, she can KMA.

[Rummyfan]

... the political economy of social media in identity movements...

WTF is that?

[Wyatt's Torch]

I might be in favor of giving out a pile of money IF they then release all claims including the elimination of all “affirmative action” programs everywhere in the country (government, education, business, etc.) and the right to sue for or even mention racism ever again. It’s over. Take the money and shut up for good.

[Max in Utah]

There’s no idiot quite like an “educated” idiot.

I suppose reparations would consist of a one-time cash payment to each individual. How much? $10,000? $50,000? $100,000? More? Much more?

Most of that money would be spent within a year or two with nothing invested in the future. Within a generation it would be as if nothing had ever happened.

And the cycle would start over again. “It wasn’t enough!” they would cry. Well, let’s avoid all of that...

“NO!”

[IMR 4350]

Just a little note for everyone.

Hillary’s planned dirty tricks campaign in her planned run for president in 2004 was derailed by Charles Baron in August(19?) 2002 when during the reparation for slavery rally Baron let it be known if there wasn’t reparations for slavery there would be “scorched earth” meaning race riots in every city of the US.

It derailed Hillary’s dirty tricks campaign for president because of his use of the term “scorched earth” to mean race riots.

During Bill Clinton’s impeachment Hillary had a campaign called the “scorched earth policy” which involved the release of FBI files..

Everyone assumed the term “scorched earth policy” meant the release of the FBI files Craig Livingston got and was a threat against repubs.

It didn’t and it wasn’t.

The FBI files Hillary threatened to release were the FBI files Janet Reno said she would release if she was confirmed as AG. Instead of releasing the files Reno fired all the US Attorneys.

They were the FBI files on police corruption from the R King case the dems used to gin up civil unrest in the black community that resulted in the LA race riots of 1992.

The “reparations for slavery” nonsense is once again part of Hillary’s dirty tricks campaign for president and once again they plan on using it to gin up civil unrest and orchestrate race riots.

[Bon of Babble]

More from the professional victim class and race hustlers who only want a HAND-OUT they neither earned nor deserve.

They want equality of outcome and income rather than a fair system of meritocracy.

Stop the whining already! We’ve heard it all and already sacrificed trillions of dollars trying to “uplift” and help blacks and sacrificed too many of our sons in the War Between the States.

STFU just about says it all.

[mojito]

"...if we do not use power to redistribute capital there is no racial justice or equality.

Just like the Rev. Martin Luther...sorry, I mean Lenin & Mao, taught us.

[Help!]

Reparations: see Pigford v. USDA (both under Clinton and Obama)