Physicist at Large

Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Next read: Work and Family by Claudia Goldin

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 The next book I'll blog is Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity by economist Claudia Goldin. She's mo...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Two quick notes

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 First, a Texas legislator is trying to purge schools of books that address racial issues in ways that might make students "uncomfortab...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Baldwin: "Many Thousands Gone"

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"Many Thousands Gone" is about Richard Wright's novel Native Son . Baldwin sees it as a protest novel, which it certainly is, ...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes and "Everybody's Protest Novel"

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 The book starts with several pages of autobiographical notes. I'll just quote these great words from pages 8-9: I do not like bohemia, ...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Next read: Notes of a Native Son by Baldwin

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The next read that I'll try to blog is Notes of a Native Son , a collection of essays by James Baldwin. I read it a while ago but didn...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

Fanon chapters 4 and 5

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 Fanon was a psychiatrist so his book is basically a psychoanalysis of people living under racism and colonialism. Much of it focuses on cri...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Black Skin, White Masks, Chapters 2 and 3

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 These chapters mostly talk about interracial romantic relationships from the perspective of a black person, how status and skin color inter...
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Alex Small
Pomona, CA, United States
I'm an associate professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona. My research interests are mostly in biomedical applications of optics (especially theoretical limits to superresolution, and also light scattering calculations), with some side interests in percolation theory. I am using this blog to chronicle my responses to books that I'm reading, particularly books about higher education issues. It's a way to work out issues in my mind.
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