{"id":105,"date":"2012-06-08T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/msps\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-06-08T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:55:39","slug":"convos-of-color-an-msps-blogging-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/2012\/06\/08\/convos-of-color-an-msps-blogging-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Convos of Color: an MSPS blogging success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Another academic year has ended at Notre Dame. This means we look back and take stock in our successes and failures from the past year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\">Convos of Color<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, a student content-driven blog about <strong><em>race<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>identity<\/em><\/strong> in its first full-length season, was a tremendous success for MSPS in 2011-2012.<\/p>\n<p>Over 50 posts, authored by a diverse team of both undergraduate and graduate Notre Dame students, covered topics such as <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/09\/02\/on-being-a-legit-asian\/\">racial identity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/09\/08\/no-tattoo-for-cam\/\">Cam Newton\u2019s tattoos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/09\/09\/stepping-out-of-your-comfort-zone\/\">stepping out of your comfort zone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/09\/12\/does-nds-catholic-identity-make-us-more-multicultural\/\">Catholic identity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/09\/21\/troy-davis-charged-for-being-black\/\">Troy Davis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/09\/28\/milk-cookies-and-affirmative-action\/\">Affirmative Action<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/10\/14\/the-statistics-of-black-marriage-2\/\">interracial marriage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/10\/24\/misunderstandings-over-indian-mascots\/\">Indian mascots<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2011\/10\/27\/college-halloween-costume-ideas-politically-correct-edition\/\">Halloween costumes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2012\/01\/23\/playing-with-fire-race-and-sport-in-american-culture\/\">race in American sports<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/convosofcolor.com\/2012\/03\/25\/campus-crime-alert-emails-the-black-male-in-hoodie-causing-bias-or-preventing-crime\/\">Trayvon Martin<\/a>, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>Nine student bloggers volunteered to author their own original thoughts and content and MSPS can\u2019t thank enough our 2011-2012 team:<\/p>\n<p><em>Anne Robles<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Gabi Hernandez<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Thinh Le<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Mike Mercurio<\/em>,\u00a0<em>MC Larme<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Kony Pham<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Armani Sutton<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Daniel Wu<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Ben Kim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The working mission for <em><strong>Convos of Color<\/strong><\/em> is simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Convos of Color<\/strong> is an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/msps.nd.edu\">MSPS<\/a><\/strong> blog about race, identity, power, and privilege.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Convos<\/strong> is dedicated to giving Notre Dame students a forum in which to generate productive conversation about #race, #identity, #power, and #privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Posts address issues that relate both to the <strong>Notre Dame<\/strong> campus community and to the nation at large. With <strong>Convos<\/strong>, <strong>MSPS<\/strong> hopes to become a leader in new media initiatives regarding race and race relations in the fight for racial equity in <strong>America<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in writing for <em><strong>Convos of Color<\/strong><\/em> as a guest for the summer or as a team member next year, feel free to send a quick email to Toby at <a href=\"mailto:tblake@nd.edu\">tblake@nd.edu<\/a> expressing your interest.<\/p>\n<p>And be on the lookout for a 2012-2013 blogger application soon for more info on how to be a part of this really awesome collaborative project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another academic year has ended at Notre Dame. This means we look back and take stock in our successes and failures from the past year. Convos of Color, a student content-driven blog about race and identity in its first full-length &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/2012\/06\/08\/convos-of-color-an-msps-blogging-success\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5608],"tags":[3973,39586,8878,39588],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msps-2","tag-blog","tag-convos-of-color","tag-identity","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/msps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}