Migration is Beautiful
"Meet powerhouse artist/activist Favianna Rodriguez — a leading voice in the movement of artists raising awareness about U.S. immigration issues."
- I am OTHER
Harvest of Empire
The Untold Story of Latinos in America “We are all Americans of the New World, and our most dangerous enemies are not each other, but the great wall of ignorance between us.”
Juan González, Harvest of Empire
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
What Creates Our Identity
Charts to assist those who ask
"What are you?"
and
"What am I?"
"What are you?"
and
"What am I?"
Make your map free at bubbl.us
It has been illegal for the government of France to collect data on ethnicity and race since 1789.
However, civil rights lawyers in the U.S. use 'race' data to prove discrimination.
Colors are not races.
People are Tints and Shades of flesh color.
Original photo from National Geographic.
"Citing Blumenbach by name, Emerson agrees that races shade into each other imperceptibly."
-Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
The 'race' check boxes are not derived from physical science, but from political science with an underlying ideology of exclusion.
Makeup from brushesbykaren
Hair from headkandy
In 1997, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists urged the American governmnet to phase out the use of race as a data category and to substitute ethnic categories instead. Geneticists studying DNA ... were also concluding that race as a biological category made no sense. --Nell Irvin Painter
Some chapters from the book
"Modernizing the U.S. Census"
Modernizing the U.S. Census
Modernizing the U.S. Census
Modernizing the U.S. Census
YouTube response explaining One Human Race
Here is the information I could not find on the US census website. The answers to the questions: How many 'race' categories does the US feel are worthy of recognizing? Why has the US been collecting data on race and ethnicity? How is the data used?
From the webpage:
A Brief History of Census “Race”
Frank W. Sweet, author of Legal History of the Color Line
Changes in “Racial” Categories
Changes in Stated “Racial” Goals
-Frank W Sweet, A Brief History of Census “Race”
Multiracialism In America - Jane Junn
Choose one or more:
☐ Mixed
☐ Other
☐ Unsure
☐ Don't know
☐ None of your business
Snoop finds out what percentage of Native American, European and African he is.
Should I stop using the word "race"?
Unless you are a physical anthropologist, or discussing the word itself, the word 'race' should be avoided.
Replace the word 'race' with ethnicity. True, the meaning is different, but conversations about human differences usually revolve around ethnic differences.
The term 'race' equates to the noun 'breed'. Humans do not want to be thought of as breeds. -getgln
Nell Irvin Painter
Professor of American History, Princeton
Speaking about the History of White People
Using the term 'race' runs the risk of sounding uneducated, and worse, the risk of sounding racist.
NYTimes.com - Being Multiracial in America
Mixed
Listen at 3:20
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The U.S. government uses the term "white" instead of European-American to avoid reminding everyone that white people are not native; Indian / Native American is used to avoid reminding everyone that Indigenous Native American's were in the Americas first.
ReplyDeleteThere is negativity associated with the word 'race'. There is racist baggage with sorting people by races and there are many in-between 'races'.
ReplyDeleteIt's poetic justice that sorting academic scores by 'race' has shown that Asians as a group statistically have the highest scores. Now "closing the achievement gap" is about everyone catching up to the academic performance of Asians.
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