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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Study: Charter schools have worsened school segregation

Study: Charter schools have worsened school segregation #racism http://t.co/YSVDbAiRE7
— Mosi Ifatunji (@ifatunji) October 14, 2014

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Three Stages of Understanding Race

Untitled by Elisa Castro

Here are the three stages of understanding race, simplified.

1. In biology we are taught - race is biological

2. In sociology we are taught - race is a social and demographic construct

3. Maturity - call race what you want, but note that when our interpretations confront the world, we need to get real. We have real communities to grow up in, and serious racial issues to tackle.

* Racism

* Privilege
* Stereotyping / Prejudice / Profiling

* Xenophobia / Hate crimes

* Segregation / Desegregation

* Integration / Immigration

* Pluralism / Intersectionality / Community

* Affirmative Action / Reparations

* Prison Industrial Complex / War on Drugs / Stop-n-Frisk / New Jim Crow

Author of The Nature of Race, New York University sociology professor Ann Morning, Ph.D., speaks at the Baker Institute about how scientists influence ideas about race through teachings and textbooks.

Bob Marley - War | No More Trouble

Bob Marley is of mixed race (African-Jamaican / English-Jamaican).

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Warmth of Other Suns | Leaving the Jim Crow South

America needs to hear these stories - especially young Americans.

Isabel Wilkerson describes her book The Warmth of Other Suns. Guest NBA star Bill Russell shares his family's story about leaving the Jim Crow South. Check the part with Bill Russell about half way through. He describes segregation vs integration and migration vs immigration - about moving out of the Jim Crow South; and about how his family moved from no education to Harvard education.

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Integration Stories from PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge

by: Glenn Robinson

Another message about the importance of desegregating schools and communities.

Extreme segregation of the recent U.S. past created an undercurrent of distrust in the U.S. today.

Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison share their stories on the multicultural experience of Jim Crow segregation.

"It's been more than four decades since the Civil Rights movement ended racial segregation in America. Yet few would say African-Americans are now fully integrated – or assimilated." -PRI

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Glenn is a European-American married to a Mexican-American. They have two children. Glenn is interested in progressive immigration reform, and desegregation within schools and communities. He is a life long learner with interests in sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and politics.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Hope for Desegregation in Princess Napkins

Fancie Latour of Caramels on Maple Street and Boston Globe's The Hyphenated Life brought this to my attention during her interview on Mixed Chicks Chat when she told how Tiana napkins (included in a mixed set of princess napkins) were placed to the side at a certain "princess party on steroids."

I'm not one to buy napkins (or mouse pads) with pictures on them because I don't want to ruin
the picture. Regardless, my point here is that companies are still segregating when manufacturing princess napkins, and band-aids.

Do companies think that children's birthday parties have only one 'race' of children attending? Do companies think that children are prejudice against certain princesses and will only want the princess napkins if they are separated by phenotype?

The U.S. already has massive housing segregation. It's absurd to perpetuate segregation to children via napkins and band-aids.