ARISE, YE PRISONERS OF STARVATION. King at SCSU Scholars finds an employment opportunity for a chekist.

Human Relations and Multicultural Education is an interdisciplinary department that emphasizes student-centered pedagogy and examines the impact of power, resources, cultural standards, and institutional policies and practices on various groups in our society.

Make sure you understand Prof. Blogger's translation of a related discipline description. Apparently the succesful applicant at St. Cloud will have an opportunity to teach outside his or her home department.

May teach other appropriate courses in human relations and multicultural education when needed, as determined by department. The theoretical base of the department includes a global critical framework of structural oppression, social and environmental justice and the interrelationship of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, xenophobia, imperialism, environmental issues, etc.

Don't you love that "etc?" Apparently it's also a plus to understand non-intellectual ways of intellectualizing.

Demonstrated knowledge of: theories of racism and other forms of oppression and the interrelationships between them; theories related to social and environmental justice; non-dominant, non-western "ways of knowing"; connections between global and personal issues.

The scare quotes and the use of the catch-all term "issues" speak for themselves. I wonder, however, whether someone who ran an affirmative action bake sale would satisfy this qualification.

Demonstrated experience in social action to challenge oppression effectively.

It's job searches like this that give ammunition to the advocates of the so-called academic bills of rights. I have some reservations about such bills and hope to post more about that over the weekend. On the other hand, to prevent the advocates of those bills of rights from prevailing, somebody within the academy must step up and be adult enough to recognize that while challenging the dominant paradigm has its value, there is also value in the dominant paradigm. I'm still looking for a suitable trade-off to address.