Thursday, April 5, 2012

ALTERNET: "Let’s Be Honest, Trayvon Martin is Dead Because Black People are “Scary”"

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This was posted on ALTERNET March 26, but I have just found it and feel the need to share. Let’s Be Honest, Trayvon Martin is Dead Becaus...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Whiteness in the U.S. and South Africa

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The color of one’s skin, shape of one’s eye, and texture of one’s hair may vary across the globe, but these physical attributes have no me...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Racialized Group Identities (Focus on Japanese in Hawai`i and Afrikaners)

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Racial identity construction establishes a line which separates “us” from “them” by creating boundaries and assigning meaning to those bou...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Race, Housing and Privilege, or More Reasons Why Race Still Matters

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Malcolm X stated that segregation and separation had one key difference, “It’s only segregated when it’s controlled by someone from the ou...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Why Race and Ethnicity Continue to Matter

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Karl Marx, Max Weber and Robert Park all argued that race and ethnicity would cease to matter, yet almost a hundred years later race and e...
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Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Relationship Between Whiteness, Citizenship, Racial Categories and Shifting Racial Discourse

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              Whiteness  has been synonymous with citizenship (if not legally, then in popular thought) in European colonized countries, l...
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Friday, February 3, 2012

Avoiding the Monoculture through Homeschooling?

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I recently read the Newsweek article "Why Urban Educated Parents are Returning to DIY Education"  at The Daily Beast.  It grabbed ...