This Week in Diversity: American Geography

June 11, 2010 – 3:42 pm

Oh, Arizona. Why are so many things happening in your beautiful state lately that give us reason to talk about you in these roundups? This time around, it’s a mural featuring the faces of local schoolchildren—but the schoolchildren are a diverse crowd, the mural was drawing racist slurs, and the school’s principal asked for a [...]

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Video Thursday: Illegal European Immigrants

June 10, 2010 – 1:07 pm

Via Stuff White People Do, a different perspective on Arizona’s new immigration law: Ah, humor. Reminds me of this now-classic tee shirt: But all kidding aside, what we need is not more people with guns. It’s more schools with pencils and books, more community centers offering classes for adult immigrants. And a society that looks [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Arizona, the Supreme Court, and Crayons

May 14, 2010 – 3:29 pm

Before we launch into this week’s roundup of race and diversity links, I’d like to make a plea: help your local library. Many around the country are facing massive budget cuts, so let your elected officials know that your library is important. New Yorkers, NYPL has a handy form to help you contact your City [...]

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Video Thursday: We speak Racist

May 13, 2010 – 2:16 pm

We’ll ignore the fact that they wouldn’t save money because they would lose their Federal transportation funding if they only offered the test in English. We won’t ignore that it’s racist; it’s barely-coded anti-immigrant rhetoric, and in the current political climate, anti-immigrant rhetoric is barely-coded anti-Latino rhetoric. And “If you want to live here, learn [...]

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This Week in Diversity: History, Alternate Reality, and the Future

April 30, 2010 – 1:34 pm

Last Friday haiku Thirty days of poetry Ending with a verse. Let’s start the week’s links with some history! It turns out that there have been biracial people for a long time, and we’re not just talking homo sapiens of European descent with those of African descent: a recent genetic study found evidence of interbreeding [...]

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Video Thursday: Immigration Reform and Racism

April 22, 2010 – 5:26 pm

In his deadpan way, Colbert reminds us how central race is to the immigration debate:

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This Week in Diversity: Melting Pots and Purity

November 6, 2009 – 4:39 pm

This week, we’re looking at the idea—the fallacy—of purity: racial purity, national purity, and cultural purity. Let’s start with South Korea, which is experiencing a clash between its historical ideas of ethnic homogeneity and its increasing immigrant population. A New York Times article draws attention to both the prevalence of racism in South Korea and [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Changes in the Landscape

October 23, 2009 – 3:35 pm

It’s easy to think of racial groups as cultural monoliths: black culture is like this, Asian culture is like that. An article on culture clashes between recent immigrants from Africa and African Americans, many of them descendants of slaves whose families have been in the U.S. for centuries, reminds us of the complexity. It also [...]

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This Week in Diversity

October 2, 2009 – 11:18 am

Every week, we’re going to be bringing you a roundup of interesting articles, commentary, and projects dealing with diversity—race, gender, immigration issues, discrimination, and people bridging cultural barriers. Drumroll, please! From the New York Times, a California hospital is working with Hmong shamans to improve care—body and soul—of the town’s Hmong immigrant population. From Genreville, [...]

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