Queer theory taught at historically Black colleges and universities often meets with resistance from students. This article proposes a means by which to overcome this resistance. Deferring resistance involves encouraging students to approach queer theory texts in the same vein as they have approached texts earlier in the course. By building upon…

Saturating the Canadian landscape are media and health industry discourses representing childhood physical "(in)activity" and "obesity" as being at "epidemic" proportion. Increasingly identified as a focus of concern within such representations is the school setting, simultaneously positioned both as a cause of…

Argues that the typical full-time community college instructor holds a "modern" world view whereas the typical traditional-age community college student holds a "postmodern" one. Discusses the implications of these differences in the classroom and suggests that classroom experience may be enhanced if teachers better understand students. (DMM)