30 Days

March 2, 2011 – 2:27 pm

Because I do not have cable at home I tend to discover shows on television much later than everyone else. Last week I watched the first three episodes of 30 Days. I liked Super Size Me a lot, and the idea of 30 Days appealed to me because the creator, Morgan Spurlock, tries to push people out of their comfort zones by making them walk (literally) in other people’s shoes.

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This Week in Diversity: Bullies, Surfer-Girls, and Ancient Diversity

October 22, 2010 – 5:38 pm

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and there are lots of great resources to use in supporting children and teens who are being bullied. We have several books, including First Day in Grapes, Willie Wins, and Chess Rumble. The Department of Health has a Stop Bullying Now site, and the National Center for Bullying has [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Gender, Books, and Maps.

October 1, 2010 – 5:20 pm

Welcome to another diversity-filled week! As happens fairly regularly in the literary world, people have been talking about gender and books. Two different takes caught our eyes this week: The Book Bench at the New Yorker took an analytical look at the discussion with What We Talk About When We Talk About Men Not Reading, [...]

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Video Thursday: Arab Americans

September 30, 2010 – 5:17 pm

An Arab American comedian explains some of the realities of being Arab in America:

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This Week in Diversity: Heat Wave

June 25, 2010 – 4:23 pm

Most of the country looks poised for a hot weekend, so here are some pieces to read while you lurk in the air-conditioned splendor of indoors. Hampton Stevens, guest blogging for Ta-Nahisi Coates, shares a story of a child trying to puzzle our increasingly globalized world, courtesy of the FIFA World Cup, and points to the [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Memorial Day Edition

May 28, 2010 – 1:28 pm

Book Expo America has finished and Memorial Day is almost here, but in between, here’s your weekly batch of diversity reading! Looking back to the era of Civil Rights protests and Civil Rights legislation, Breach of Peace presents some amazing portraits of some of the 1961 Freedom Riders—with their mugshots, recent interviews, and recent photos. [...]

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This Week in Diversity: Beautiful Women of Color and White Privilege

May 21, 2010 – 4:40 pm

It’s starting to feel like summer, and that means summer movies! We start this week’s diversity linkup with a post from Feministing pointing out the whitewashing of Jennifer Lopez in The Back-Up Plan. Speaking of beautiful women of color, the newly-crowned Miss USA is a Lebanese American immigrant, Rima Fakih! It’s not clear if she’s [...]

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Video Thursday: Iranian in America

January 28, 2010 – 4:34 pm

It’s a couple years old (Bush was president, remember those years?), but Iranian American comedian Maz Jobrani still hits several nails on the head when talking about being Middle Eastern in America: Really, I think we all go through the internalization of stereotypes that he describes when talking about walking through an airport; we’re all [...]

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Overheard on the Subway

October 29, 2009 – 4:40 pm

A friend of mine was on the subway near three middle school-aged kids—an Asian boy, a Latina, and a Middle Eastern girl wearing a hijab, the headscarf worn by many Muslim women. The boy turned to the Middle Eastern girl and asked, “Why do you wear that thing on your head?” The Latina interrupted. “It’s, [...]

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