My latest op-ed piece for “Inside Higher Ed”:http://www.insidehighered.com/ is now available and you can “read it here”:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/04/17/golub. I’m happy with the piece, at least stylistically, but it is a lot more personal than a lot of the blogging I’ve done recently (although still I think perfectly acceptable professionally). As usual, the snarky comments from IHE’s readership have already begun.
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RBL here,
For the record, my family’s place in Tahoe is _not_ a time-share (how’s _that_ for a finely-demarcated class boundary?).
A nice piece of work, by the way — fun to read, and thought-provoking to boot.
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RBL — Does that what I say ring true to you? Both in terms of ethnicity and also my own position in our merry little band?
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RBL here,
Yes, it did ring true. Although my experience was obviously different, I did find it instructive that Jewishness was a whole lot more salient (and Hispanicity coded in an entirely different way) in the East as compared to in good old River City. It never really occured to me in high school (at least in my memory) to think that there was something particularly different about Jews. On that note, I think religion _in general_ wasn’t all that salient a differentiator at our high school. To be honest, I’d be hard pressed to identify the religious backgrounds of _most_ of our friends — except for the one’s who’ve gotten married, of course.
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