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It's Open Hunting Season For Brown People In Arizona
The need for fair and comprehensive national immigration policy is needed now more than ever. From the NYT: Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation’s toughest bill on illegal immigration into law...
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Ignorance Breeds Ignorance: Denying Diversity, History, And Oppression In...
Many people, especially those of historically disadvantaged groups (e.g., immigrants, people of color, women), have viewed education as the route to upward-mobility and intellectual growth. The way to...
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[kinsey] New Research On Asian And Latino/a Sexual Minorities
The unique experiences of sexual minorities who are racial/ethnic minorities reflects the complicated intersection of race and ethnicity with sexuality.
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We Must Carry On The Fight For Justice And Equality
Tomorrow, much of the US will be shut down in honor of the birth, life, and legacy of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Or, to clarify, much of the US, namely local, state, and federal...
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Minority Among Minorities, Outsider Among Outsiders
It is disheartening, but very realistic, to say that marginalized communities are not immune to the norms, values, stereotypes, stigmas, and oppressive practices of the dominant society.
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The Social Construction/Reconstruction/Destruction Of History
It would seem that history — the full range of events that have occurred before today — is a given. What happened has happened. But, recent efforts by conservative groups, like the Tea Party, to...
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Oppression As Terrorism
What image comes to mind when you hear the term “terrorist“? I can imagine most Americans think of something like the images that a quick Google search yields: Right now, these are the kinds of images...
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Margaret Cho’s “Asian Adjacent”
In late 2011, comedienne Margaret Cho released a song, “Asian Adjacent” (on album “Cho Dependent”) with an accompanying video. (Obviously, I am late to notice.) Somehow, a humorous, yet seductive...
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No, Really — Where Are You From?
As a part of last weeks Comedy Week on YouTube, David Neptune and Ken Tanaka took on the aspect of racism in which Asians and Asian Americans are exotified, no matter their birthplace: “no, really —...
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