Over at ‘Inside Higher Ed’ (a publication with an increasingly odd identity itself), Jewish in Polynesia describes the problem (eh?) of the absence of familiar stereotypes.
Recent Bluessky Posts- DLCC sent me email asking me to "renew" my membership. I've never had one because I disapprove of them intervening in primaries against progressives and funneling money to bad candidates in the general. But is lying to your own voters a new low? March 9, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Wisps from a smoking gun? www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-... "The woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 provided several verifiable details about her life in interviews with the FBI, according to a new report." #Epstein March 9, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Property: Shelley Ross Saxer, The Uncertainty of Water Rights for Tribal Communities, JOTWELL (March 9, 2026) (reviewing Alexander Pearl, Homelands Not Graveyards, 71 UCLA L. Rev. 1706 (2025)), property.jotwell.com/the-uncertai.... March 9, 2026 Jotwell
- "The U.S. military said it killed six men Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean... Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people..." These alleged murders by the U.S. military hardly make the news any longer. March 9, 2026 SFDB
- FL Bar says it erred: "no such pending Bar investigation of Lindsey Halligan...The Florida Bar received a complaint against Lindsey Halligan and, consistent with standard practice, the Bar is monitoring the ongoing legal proceedings underlying the complaint.” news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw... March 6, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Does this confuse you?
A great deal of my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course involves getting students to rethink ideas of race and ethnicity in light of the anthropological concept of culture. However, I feel very uncomfortable asking my students to objectify themselves in class by asking them as an Asian, how do you feel about this? or lecturing my African-American students about supposedly innate black athletic ability. On the mainland I solved this problem by objectifying myself and examining, for instance, stereotypes about Jews.
the logic is simple enough.