Letters to (various) Editors

• On Iraq and Grenada. The year 2003 marked the twentieth anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada. This essay appared in the Folio Weekly late that year.
  
  
• On Bilingual Education and "Official English." This brief lettitor to the Times-Union didn't get published either.
  
  
• On Columbus Day. I wrote this essay in 2002 as a response to an editorial in the Florida Times-Union on the meaning of Columbus Day; but, they didn't print it.
  
  
• A Reason for Ebonics. This essay appeared in the Hagerstown, Maryland (my home town) Herald Mail in February, 1997.
  
  
  

Other Essays

• On "Race." This is an essay on race from an anthropological perspective. It's a preliminary attempt and will soon get some updating, so please keep checking back.
  
  
• On Language. Again, this essay can use some revision, which will happen soon.
  
  
• Language. I wrtoe this entry for the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, published in 2006.