Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Looking for Republican leadership to talk about racism

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Recently there have been a series of disturbing incidents that have come to light at some McCain-Palin rallies around the country. In a Was...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Wednesday morning unanswerable question

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So I've got a question for the blogosphere: Why don't we call more things instances of racism? Want more? This is what I mean. Some...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Signs that racism is not a U.S. phenomenon

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[Spanish Men's basketball team] [Spanish Women's basketball team] [Spanish tennis team] [Argentinian soccer team] Tip of the hat to ...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

Over-sensitive & In-sensitive about Race

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I wanted to continue a thread of discussion begun in my March 12 (Wed) post "When a cigar is just a cigar." The comments that fo...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Racism not Paranoia

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Yesterday I wrote about racial overdetermination--reading into race. This morning I read this CNN article and saw footage of an African Ame...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

If only we could take it back...

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People make dumb comments a lot. We all do it--things we say and the minute it comes out of our mouths we realize that we sound like an ass...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Do we have to choose between racism and sexism?

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The spin post-New Hampshire primaries has been interesting, to say the least, as well as the hype leading up to them. Of particular note is...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Race and Politics -- Part III

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I'm going to steal this idea from Rachel's Tavern, where she posted a serious question for everyone: Who are you planning to support...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Race and Politics -- Part II

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For those of you just tuning in, I started to talk about race and politics in yesterday's post ( "Race and Politics -- Part I"...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

Getting rid of race

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I am a true academic geek (wait, isn't that just being repetitive? Aren't all academics GEEKS, otherwise how did we end up studying...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Typical encounter

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SCENE: Contemporary art gallery in downtown Southern city PLAYERS: white female artist, mid to late 60s, Asian American female professor, la...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The BOGO light and "the Dark Continent"

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After I wrote the post about the XO Laptop ( "Making a Difference--PartII--November 16 ), a friend sent me an email describing a compan...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007

Promoting more Asian American Artists

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The New York Times has two articles prominently displaying two different Asian American artists involved in theater. Paul Chan, a video ar...
Friday, November 30, 2007

The White Spokesperson

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When I was in grad school I once told a white friend from Alabama (also a fellow grad student) that there were days when I felt tired just w...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Making a Difference--Part I

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Two weeks ago, at my uncle's memorial service, I got up to speak towards the end of the evening--to be one of the "family voices...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

Individual Bigotry & Institutional Racism

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The first time I remember hearing a formal definition for racism was in my freshman year black studies class, which was an introduction to r...
Monday, July 9, 2007

Talking about race

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Why is it so hard to talk about race? This may seem a naive/obvious/pointless question to ask, but I come back to it, again and again, when...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

North vs. South -- Part III

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This is the last posting about why I prefer North Carolina to South Carolina, and I have to begin with a report I heard on NPR this afternoo...
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Monday, June 4, 2007

No Diploma for You!

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There is a high school in Galesburg, IL (Galesburg High School--go figure) which denied five of their graduates their diplomas on graduate d...