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Challenging Harmful Orders
Just thought I'd share this evidence of institutions mobilizing to confront and block the baseless and dangerous orders regarding...

Carlos
Feb 93 min read


Damn, You Gonna Go Out Like That? Or Why We Cannot and Therefore We Will Not Comply with Lethal Nonsense
To Leaders of Communities Committed to Justice and Inclusion, I came of age as a black-racialized male immigrant in Dorchester, a...

Carlos
Feb 74 min read
Teachers Gotta Teach & DEI is Part and Parcel of Teaching
Here are the intended take-aways from this article: (1) We can’t do away with DEI, (2) We can and should do DEI better, (3) Targeting...

Carlos
Feb 65 min read


DEI is a continuum from DEIFA to DEIFU
By the power vested in me by no one, I hereby present the official understanding of DEI. The epigraph to my new book on DEI practice...

Carlos
Feb 33 min read


My recent interview on the How My View Grew podcast
With gratitude to Amiel Handelsman, host of the podcast, How My View Grew, for his deft interview skills and lovely manner, I happily...

Carlos
May 6, 20241 min read


What’s in a Name: Resisting the Temptation to Rename DEI in the Face of Strategic Defamation
Efforts to discredit DEI have led some to wonder if it might be strategically expedient to change the way they refer to DEI...

Carlos
Jan 22, 20242 min read


Enough Already: A New Year’s Resolve to Correct the DEI False Dichotomy
So much of what I read this year get’s DEI wrong in fundamental, divisive, and destructive ways. Regarding DEI practices, it’s crucial to...

Carlos
Dec 29, 20233 min read
Update on Fixing the Census
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -...

Carlos
Dec 19, 20231 min read


My Conversation about Race & the Census with Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee will Hear You Out - with dignity, civility, intelligence, humility, and good humor Celeste Headlee has a new show, Hear...

Carlos
Dec 12, 20233 min read


Revolutionary Courage
I’m very grateful to First Parish, Concord Academy, and the team of Concord citizens who collaborated with me to transform the misfortune...

Carlos
Oct 29, 20231 min read


Agitated Flies Trapped in the Fly Bottle of the Racial Worldview
To read my responses to objections to correcting the racial worldview expressed in the comments section of the Washington Post article,...

Carlos
Oct 21, 20231 min read


Race isn’t real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect that.
"The notice from the federal government arrived in Carlos Hoyt’s inbox last August. It was looking ahead to the 2030 Census and inviting...

Carlos
Oct 16, 20231 min read


Anthropology Conference Drops Panel Defending Sex as Binary
“The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline, framed in ways...

Carlos
Oct 1, 20235 min read


Why DEI in a Nutshell
Why DEI in a Nutshell Ready or not, the 2023-2024 school year has begun! Across the country, kids, teachers, and parents are returning to...

Carlos
Sep 7, 20234 min read


Your Own "Racism is stupid" Shirt?
A friend and former colleague at a K-8 school called me recently to let me know that she was wearing her “Racism is stupid” shirt, and...

Carlos
Sep 2, 20233 min read


Even a Machine can See...
Dear friends, despite knowing that the odds are always against publication, I'm sometimes so concerned about something that shows up in...

Carlos
Jul 27, 20233 min read
Land Acknowledgments. Please Stop or Please Do Much Much Better
Friday, June 9, 2023 Are you part of an organization (a school or business or religious community or another group) that wishes to act in...

Carlos
Jun 9, 20235 min read


If only it were so easy with homo sapien intelligence
Image source Sunday, April 9, 2023 What follows is a conversation I had with ChatGPT this morning. I start many a morning - OK, most...

Carlos
Apr 9, 20237 min read


Date Change - Initiating Dialogues Beyond the Master’s Map
Now let us escape the shackle of the mind The date for the inaugural Dialogues Beyond the Mastet's Map is now Thursday, April 27, 7-8:30...

Carlos
Mar 17, 20234 min read
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