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The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International - The Atlantic
"What Africa needs more pressingly than Kony's indictment is more equitable civil society, more robust democracy, and a fairer system of justice…

If Americans want to care about Africa, maybe they should consider evaluating American foreign policy, which they already play a direct role in through elections, before they impose themselves on Africa itself…Nigeria is one of the top five oil suppliers to the U.S., and American policy is interested first and foremost in the flow of that oil. The American government did not see fit to support the Nigeria protests…

Let us begin our activism right here: with the money-driven villainy at the heart of American foreign policy. To do this would be to give up the illusion that the sentimental need to "make a difference" trumps all other considerations…

All of this takes us rather far afield from fresh-faced young Americans using the power of YouTube, Facebook, and pure enthusiasm to change the world. A singer may be innocent; never the song."
invisiblechildren  2012  foreignpolicy  politics  africa  activism  race  humanitarianism  kony  kony2012  tejucole  whitesaviorindustrialcomplex  from delicious
19 days ago by robertogreco
The Leonard Lopate Show: May's Book: Open City, by Teju Cole - WNYC
psychology  surprise  society  novels  labor  wnyc  race  writing  writers  leonardlopate  deafness  silence  museums  nyc  fiction  books  interviews  art  history  obliquity  opencity  2012  tejucole  from delicious
19 days ago by robertogreco
Taylor and Goldstein Debate Schooling | To the best of our KNOWLEDGE
"Do public schools stifle creativity and real learning, or are they essential to a diverse society?  Does homeschooling undercut public schools? Do parents with progressive values have an ethical obligation to support public schools? These questions have sparked a lively debate in response to Astra Taylor’s recent essay “Unschooling” in the literary magazine n+1 and Dana Goldstein’s response in Slate. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Taylor and Goldstein join Steve Paulson for their first joint debate on schools and the best learning environments."
class  race  deschooling  competition  debate  society  policy  tracking  segregation  hierarchy  publiceducation  2012  progressive  learning  education  unschooling  astrataylor  danagoldstein  from delicious
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
On Making Yourself Right - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
"Publicly, he lived to make himself right -- a tradition that is fully empowered in our politics. Breitbart didn't invent the art of making yourself right. But he embraced it, and then advanced it.

That is what took me to sadness. I have experienced curiosity as a primarily selfish endeavor. It originates in the understanding of the brevity of life, and the desire to see as much of it as possible, from as many angles as possible without doing too much damage to my morality. The opposite of that -- incuriosity, dishonesty, the opportunistic deployment of information -- is darkness. Breitbart died, like all of us will, in darkness. But as a media persona he chose to also live there, and in the process has impelled countless others to throttle themselves into the abyss…

It is wholly appropriate to be sorry that Andrew Breitbart died. But in the relevant business, it is right to be sorry for how he lived."
history  journalism  us  race  politics  society  mediapersona  persona  media  lies  lying  naacp  acorn  death  life  ethics  morality  values  charlessherrod  shirleysherrod  truth  wrong  right  2012  andrewbreitbart  ta-nehisicoates  from delicious
12 weeks ago by robertogreco
Full Show: Economic Malpractice and the Millennials | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
"Absolutely. It’s been so shocking to see the demonization of public servants. It’s really part of this 40-year attack on the public. And I think the fact that we’re seeing right now that teachers, public janitors, school workers, bus drivers, cops, firefighters are the new welfare queens in our public life.

I mean, really they are. I mean, if you think about the stereotype that’s being trafficked right now. They’re talking about these lazy, you know, bloated pensions that are just, you know, cheating the system. I mean, that’s the welfare queens of the 1980s. And what has been– what’s the same between the welfare queen and this image of the postal worker who doesn’t really deserve the benefits they’re getting? These old shop worn stereotypes of race and gender."
generations  2012  grovernorquist  ronaldreagan  teaparty  democracy  money  economics  gender  race  politics  publicservants  welfarequeens  heathermcghee  billmoyers  millennials  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker
In a society where Constitution worship is still a requisite…Stuntz startlingly suggests…Bill of Rights is a terrible document w/ which to start justice system—much inferior to…French Declaration of the Rights of Man, which Jefferson…may have helped shape while…Madison was writing ours.

…trouble w/…Bill of Rights…is that it emphasizes process & procedure rather than principles…Declaration of Rights of Man says, Be just!…Bill of Rights says, Be fair! Instead of announcing general principles—no one should be accused of something that wasn’t a crime when he did it; cruel punishments are always wrong; the goal of justice is, above all, that justice be done—it talks procedurally. You can’t search someone without a reason…can’t accuse him w/out allowing him to see evidence…& so on… has led to the current mess, where accused criminals get laboriously articulated protection against procedural errors & no protection at all against outrageous & obvious violations of simple justice."
constitution  justice  process  procedure  policy  2012  criminaljusticesystem  us  jails  race  reform  legal  prisons  law  politics  crime  prison  williamjstuntz  adamgopnik 
february 2012 by robertogreco
MoMA | New Photography 2011 | Doug Rickard
"Doug Rickard (American, born 1968) studied United States history and sociology at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to photography. He has drawn on this background in research for his series A New American Picture, which focuses on places in the United States where unemployment is high and educational opportunities are few. On a virtual road trip, Rickard located these sites remotely using the Street View feature of the website Google Maps, which has mapped and photographed every street in the country. Scrutinizing the Google Maps pictures, he composed images on his computer screen, which he then photographed using a digital camera. The resulting pictures—digitally manipulated to remove the Google watermark and cropped to a panoramic format—comment on poverty and racial equity in the United States, the bounty of images on the web, and issues of personal privacy."
steetscapes  landscape  poverty  race  us  2011  art  moma  dougrickard  photography  googlestreetview  googlemaps  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
The Case of Loving v. Bigotry - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
"In 1958, Richard & Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings…were ordered by a judge to leave Virginia for 25 years. In January, the International Center of Photography is mounting a show of Grey Villet’s photographs of the couple in 1965. That exhibit is complemented by an HBO documentary, ‘‘The Loving Story,’’…which will be shown on HBO on Feb. 14. The film tells of the Lovings’ struggle to return home after living in exile in Washington, where Mildred, gentle in person but persistent on paper, wrote pleading letters to Robert F. Kennedy and the A.C.L.U. Two lawyers took their case to the Supreme Court, which struck down miscegenation laws in more than a dozen states. The Lovings’ belief in the simple rightness of their plea never wavered. Asked by one of his lawyers if he had a message for the Supreme Court, Richard said he did: ‘‘Tell the court I love my wife.’’"
supremecourt  thelovingstory  courage  justice  law  history  us  racism  race  greyvillet  photography  2012  1958  marriage  mildredloving  richardloving  lovingvvirginia  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Diversity Lecture: Ta-Nehisi Coates - YouTube
"As part of our Bob and Aliecia Woodrick Diversity Learning Center Diversity Lecture Series, Grand Rapids Community College presents Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking on "A Deeper Black: The Meaning of Race in the Age of Obama.""
ta-nehisicoates  civilwar  2011  martinlutherkingjr  race  barackobama  identity  dropouts  learning  education  observation  obsession  blackhistory  us  abrahamlincoln  slavery  history  africanamerican  truth  hemingway  huckleberryfinn  marktwain  malcolmx  acceptance  understanding  safety  incarceration  society  bodyscanners  airports  convenience  inconvenience  comfort  self-esteem  justice  challenge  segregation  success  progress  policy  politics  desegregation  parenting  books  homeenvironment  reading  curiosity  exposure  youth  adolescence  teens  adults  moralauthority  wisdom 
november 2011 by robertogreco
A History Of Violence Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge
"There are studies showing that violence is more common when people are confined to one pecking order, and all of their social worth depends on where they are in that hierarchy, whereas if they belong to multiple overlapping groups, they can always seek affirmations of worth elsewhere. For example, if I do something stupid when I’m driving, and someone gives me the finger and calls me an asshole, it’s not the end of the world: I think to myself, I’m a tenured professor at Harvard. On the other hand, if status among men in the street was my only source of worth in life, I might have road rage and pull out a gun. Modernity comprises a lot of things, and it’s hard to tease them apart. But I suspect that when you’re not confined to a village or a clan, and you can seek your fortunes in a wide world, that is a pacifying force for exactly that reason."
history  violence  psychology  stevenpinker  hierarchy  humanities  philosophy  society  brain  mind  murder  crime  war  genocide  democracy  hatecrimes  race  class  time  scheduling  mentors  mentoring  doing  teamwork  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Christopher Emdin: The Troy Davis Case: Lessons for Urban Youth
"As the Troy Davis case unearths the flaws in our justice system, and shines a light on the fact that there are many inequities in society at large, it has brought anger, frustration, and even a renewed sense of commitment to fighting injustice. However, in the midst of the bevy of emotions surrounding this case, it is important that we focus on the many teaching moments it provides us. Therefore, I outline 5 lessons that parents can learn from this case, and that must be shared with urban youth."
christopheremdin  troydavis  deathpenalty  racism  race  us  2011  law  justice  urbanyouth  youth  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
What diversity means « Snarkmarket
"…if you’re broke or have less education, your child’s more likely to go undiagnosed/misdiagnosed & be treated as slow or mentally retarded…even if you get the “right” diagnosis, the therapies offered & your ability to take advantage of them will vary wildly depending on your resources. Maybe especially time.

…just as autism stories overwhelmingly focus on children, not adults, they also overwhelmingly focus on the wealthy, not the poor…& the link between autism & poverty is extraordinary once a child becomes an adult — what “independence” means in that context is very different.

This is also to say that while all these additional considerations are important, fuck that shit. Because autism does cut across class, race, gender, sexual identity & physical ability, etc…because of that, it changes what we mean by diversity, what kinds of diversity count, what diversity we ought to care about, & how we think about all of these issues of identity & privilege taken all together."
autism  aspergers  timcarmody  2011  poverty  class  race  diversity  gender  wealth  independence  childhood  parenting  adulthood  privilege  identity  education  diagnosis  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
‪James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. Debate‬‏ - YouTube
"Debate held at Cambridge University, full version available at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/videodir/asx2/2299.asx "
jamesbaldwin  debate  africanamerican  decolonization  colonization  racism  williamfbuckley  identity  labor  us  south  history  americandream  reality  assumptions  perspective  1965  race  colonialism  coloniallegacy  subjugation  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The American Crawl : The Perennial Outsider and the Problem with Bashing White Kids
"But what I forgot was that Holden is the apotheosis of being a teenager and growing up. I’ve had few texts that have quite the near-universal positive response as Catcher gets in my 11th grade classroom.<br />
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While I ask students to think about the critical nature of the text & its politics of representation, I also recognize that students need to look at the world from myriad viewpoints–especially when those of privileged folks like Holden end up looking a whole lot like their own. Each time I teach this book (every 11th grade class I’ve taught at this point), I have students ask to buy a copy when they are finished. I have students each year admit it’s the first book they’ve finished reading. Ever. I have impassioned & emotional reflections from students that discuss their fears, uncertainties, & desires about growing up. The fact that Holden is white or male doesn’t get in the way of this pathos or this ability of students to engage meaningfully with an aging text…"
catcherintherye  jdsalinger  anterogarcia  teaching  context  literature  books  2011  race  meaningmaking  teens  adolescence  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Becoming Animal- Race, Terror and the American Roots Dick Hebdige [Saw a version of this performance at the Hammer. Awesome!]
An early version of the text reproduced below was first given as a mixed-media presentation at an interdisciplinary conference on ‘‘Noise’’ held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2002. The conference brought together a group of musicians, composers, visual artists, ethnomusiciologists and film, TV and media scholars drawn from a range of institutions sited in the States and abroad. What follows should be regarded more as the inchoate mapping or approximate documentation of a performance than as a conventional piece of written scholarship or criticism. Inevitably much is lost or at least significantly refigured in the translation from a ‘live’ real-time context complete with audio, slide and video inserts to the stereophonic silence of words upon a page but it is my hope that some of those readers who persevere beyond this preamble and who follow what follows will recognize or, failing that, will follow up/track down some at least of the audio citations."
dickhebdige  2007  history  mixedmedia  performance  performanceart  presentations  art  media  culture  music  race  terror  roots  audio  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Suspension is an adult choice with disastrous consequences « Generation YES Blog
"This study is staggering, and not just for its documentation of the “prison pipeline” that suspension policies create. Not even for the finding that when students are suspended or expelled, the likelihood that they will repeat a grade, not graduate, and/or become involved in the juvenile justice system increases significantly. Or even that African-American students and children with particular educational disabilities who qualify for special education were suspended and expelled at especially high rates.<br />
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All those sobering facts pale in comparison to the finding that as the Washington Post story says, “Here’s one myth of school debunked: Harsh discipline is not always a reflection of the students in a particular school. It can be driven by those in charge. In a study of nearly a million Texas children described as an unprecedented look at discipline, **researchers found that nearly identical schools suspended and expelled students at very different rates.**“"
prisonpipeline  suspension  discipline  texas  race  learningdisabilities  sylviamartinez  delinquency  2011  justice  juvenilejustice  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Why Crime Is Down in America's Cities - Richard Florida - National - The Atlantic
"One additional factor bears on this. Our analysis also turns up a consistent negative correlation between crime and the overall level of city happiness. It makes intuitive sense that a low-crime city would be a happy city; still, it's worth pointing out that the happiness measure is associated not just w/ overall crime but w/ almost every type of crime across the board. <br />
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This is somewhat striking in an analysis where associations between crime & key social & economic variables are hard to find. More to the point, the Gallup research identifies openness to diversity as being one of the two most important factors that shape city happiness & community satisfaction across the board.<br />
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America's declining crime rates are cause for celebration, even if we can't completely explain the phenomenon. The fact that diversity appears to play such a signal role in the trend—something that most Americans regard as a moral & economic good in its own right—makes it all-the-more satisfying."
race  diversity  cities  crime  richardflorida  happiness  community  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs | Mother Jones
"How racism, global economics, and the new Jim Crow fuel Black America's crippling jobs crisis."
race  us  discrimination  2011  employment  economics  unemployment  jobs  disparity  inequality  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Oral history interview with Ruth Asawa and Albet Lanier, 2002 June 21-Jul 5 - Oral Histories | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
"An interview of Ruth Asawa and her husband, Albert Lanier, 2002 June 21-2002 Jul.5, conducted by Mark Johnson on June 21 and Paul Karlstrom on July 5, for the Archives of American Art, in the subjects' home/studio in San Francisco, Calif.<br />
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Asawa and Lanier shared their memories of Black Mountain College, Josef and Anni Albers (with whom they became close friends) and Buckminster Fuller. Part of their account of those years and the early stage of their marriage dealt with issues of race.<br />
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This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators."
ruthasawa  albertlanier  2002  interviews  blackmountaincollege  josefalbers  annialbers  buckminsterfuller  oralhistory  history  race  art  visualarts  glvo  interracialmarriage  markjohnson  artists  sanfrancisco  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Frantz Fanon - Wikipedia
"Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism. Fanon is known as a radical existential humanist[1] thinker on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization.[2]Fanon supported the Algerian struggle for independence and became a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. His life and works have incited and inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades."<br />
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[via: http://steelemaley.posterous.com/taiaiake-alfred ]
politics  history  psychology  books  literature  algeria  decolonization  psychopathology  colonization  frantzfanon  via:steelemaley  marxism  criticaltheory  humanism  radicals  radicalism  existentialhumanism  freedom  liberation  paulofreire  barackobama  ernestocheguevara  blackpanthers  lumenproletariat  rageagainstthemachine  indigenous  thewretchedearth  class  race  activism  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Paper Tigers ["What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?"]
"The failure of Asian-Americans to become leaders in the white-collar workplace does not qualify as one of the burning social issues of our time. But it is a part of the bitter undercurrent of Asian-American life that so many Asian graduates of elite universities find that meritocracy as they have understood it comes to an abrupt end after graduation. If between 15 and 20 percent of every Ivy League class is Asian, and if the Ivy Leagues are incubators for the country’s leaders, it would stand to reason that Asians would make up some corresponding portion of the leadership class."
race  us  2011  elitism  meritocracy  testing  testtaking  bambooceiling  education  leadership  asians  asian-americans  via:rushtheiceberg  wesleyyang  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
ANDREW NORMAN WILSON: Workers Leaving the Googleplex [Bookmarked in some other way too, I think, but again here just in case.]
"The personal project at this point is nothing beyond a general curiosity towards the ScanOps workers. I don’t know enough about the situation to pursue any further understanding and now that I know it’s so super-secret, I probably never will have the chance to. I think Google does a lot of great things socially and politically but found it interesting that these workers, who perform labor similar to that of many red-badge contractors, such as software engineers, custodians, security guards, etc., are mostly people of color and cannot eat Google meals, take the shuttle, ride a bike, or step foot anywhere else on campus. With backgrounds in sociology and political philosophy, I wasn’t approaching this as an act of muckraking, but rather as an analysis of the transition from industrial labor to information labor and what this could mean in terms of race and class."
google  labor  inequality  culture  politics  art  2011  industrial  scanops  googleplex  informationlabor  work  race  class  googlebooks  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Guernica / The Straight Dope — Bill Moyers interviews David Simon, April 2011
"David Simon would be happy to find out that The Wire was hyperbolic and ridiculous, and that the “American Century” is still to come. But he's not betting on it. An excerpt from Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, forthcoming from The New Press."<br />
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"I am very cynical about institutions and their willingness to address themselves to reform. I am not cynical when it comes to individuals and people. And I think the reason The Wire is watchable, even tolerable, to viewers is that it has great affection for individuals. It’s not misanthropic in any way. It has great affection for those people, particularly when they stand up on their hind legs and say, “I will not lie anymore. I am actually going to fight for what I perceive to be some shard of truth.”"
davidsimon  billmoyers  toread  interviews  thewire  tv  television  politics  drugs  cities  baltimore  2011  government  policy  society  economics  journalism  statistics  progress  crime  lawenforcement  criminology  urban  urbanism  laissezfaire  markets  marketfundamentalism  decriminalization  underclass  class  race  incarceration  institutions  cynicism  reform  change  individualism  people  human  humancondition  humans  democracy  control  corruption  mexico  us  ideology  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Joe Bageant: Lost in the American Undertow
"The US has always maintained a white underclass — citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cushion national economic shocks through the disposability of their labor, with occasional time off to serve as bullet magnets in defense of the Empire. Until the post-World War II era, the existence of such an underclass was widely acknowledged. During the Civil War, for instance, many northern abolitionists also called for the liberation of “four million miserable white southerners held in bondage by the wealthy planter class”. Planter elites, who often held several large plantations which, together, constituted much or most of a county’s economy, saw to it that poor whites got no schooling, money, or political power. Poll taxes & literacy requirements kept white subsistence farmers & poor laborers from entering voting booths. Often accounting for up to 70% of many deep-Southern counties, they could not vote, and thus could never challenge the status quo…"
joebageant  class  us  via:cburell  race  2011  economics  labor  classwarfare  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
2010 census: Number of nonwhite children in L.A. area declines, bucking nationwide trend, according to 2010 census analysis - latimes.com
"Greater Los Angeles was the only U.S. metropolitan area to have its population of nonwhite children decline between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, a Brookings Institution analysis finds."
losangeles  demographics  2010  census  trends  race  diversity  population  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Segregation In America: 'Dragging On And On' : NPR
"Racial segregation in the U.S. housing market has ebbed since its peak, around 1960. But it can be hard to find a truly integrated American neighborhood, according to demographer John Logan of Brown University, who has been has been parsing the latest census data.

"Black-white segregation is a phenomenon that is dragging on and on," Logan tells NPR's Steve Inskeep.

And instead of gaining momentum, the rate of integration seems to be slowing down, in Logan's view. Asked about the reason for that slowdown, Logan said that he sees one important factor.

There is, he says, "a significant part of the white population that is unwilling to live in neighborhoods where minorities are 40, 50, 60 percent of the population. That is, [they're] uncomfortable with being a minority in their neighborhood."

The result is a continuation of the "white flight" that made headlines in the 1960s and '70s."
race  ethnicity  us  cities  trends  population  demographics  2011  segregation  integration  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
History Hinders Diversification Of Portland, Oregon : NPR
"Oregon is one of only a dozen states where the majority of its residents aren't from there. Each year thousands of 20-somethings move to Portland.

The city's entire population is growing, but Portland is still about 80 percent white, making it one of the most homogeneous metropolitan cities in the country.

Many of the migrants don't have jobs, kids or a mortgage. So why do they keep coming?"
portland  oregon  economics  cities  us  npr  race  diversity  migration  employment  unemployment  whites  homogeneity  livability  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Cities In Transition : NPR
"Though many Americans are experiencing greater diversity in their neighborhoods, there is lingering polarization."
npr  series  diversity  race  ethnicity  us  urban  urbanism  segregation  integration  demographics  population  change  transition  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey - NYTimes.com
"Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates."
maps  visualization  census  data  statistics  us  race  income  housing  families  education  classideas  2010  diversity  nytimes  ethnicity  demographics  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Academia Semillas del Pueblo - Wikipedia [See also: http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/1550006804/seed-booklet-handbuilt]
"…public charter school of LAUSD. It offers instruction in grades Kindergarten through eighth, and is located in the community of El Sereno, on the east side of Los Angeles. The school. which opened in 2002, was founded by Marcos Aguilar, a former teacher at Garfield Senior High School.<br />
Academia Semillas del Pueblo offers an unusual multi-language curriculum aimed at the community's large population of recent immigrants from Mexico and Central America. Students are taught Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and the Aztec/Mexica Nahuatl language, as well as English. The curriculum emphasizes Pre-Columbian cultural traditions. The interior of the school has no walls separating classes, and multiple grades are taught the same material simultaneously. The school's official press release describes it as "dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant families an excellent education founded upon native and maternal languages, global values, and cultural realities.""
charters  losangeles  language  spanish  español  learning  education  schools  lcproject  alternative  race  mandarin  chinese  culture  immigration  elsereno  marcosaguilar  multilingual  nahuatl  precolumbian  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage - Magazine - The Atlantic
"Man is the only government-making animal in the world. His right to a participation in the production and operation of government is in inference from his nature, as direct and self-evident as is his right to acquire property or education. It is no less a crime against the manhood of a man, to declare that he shall not share in the making and directing of the government under which he lives, than to say that he shall not acquire property and education. The fundamental and unanswerable argument in favor of the enfranchisement of the negro is found in the undisputed fact of his manhood. He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. It is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all. The doctrine that some men have no rights that others are bound to respect is a doctrine which we must banish, as we have banished slavery, from which it emanated…"
frederickdouglass  1867  classideas  freedom  government  voting  us  history  race  civilrights  equality  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Borderland › Rothstein on Accountability in Schools
"Approximately 30 well-spent minutes with Richard Rothstein, who patiently spells out what is happening as a consequence of using narrow measures of accountability for schools vs. what really needs to happen."
richardrothstein  policy  accountability  measurement  teaching  learning  schools  us  2010  obesity  children  afterschoolprograms  fitness  poverty  standardizedtesting  extendeddayprograms  health  achievementgap  dougnoon  math  mathematics  reading  crisis  achievement  media  politics  fear  education  ideology  medicaid  parenting  earlychildhood  teacherquality  economics  unemployment  race  wealth  language  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Not just black and white - University of Oxford
"What Frank Field called ‘overwhelming evidence’ that children’s life chances are most heavily predicated on their development in their early years was confirmed again yesterday by the Institute of Education. Mr Field concluded the die was cast by the age of five. The Institute noted the “strikingly large” performance gap between middle-class children and their less advantaged peers by the age of seven. A third report by the IFS earlier this year says “socio-economic disadvantage has already had an impact on academic outcomes at the age of 11 and this disadvantage explains a significant proportion of the gap in HE participation at age 19 or 20”. "
education  oxford  2010  race  schools  children  disparity  diversity  economics  class  discrimination  competition  via:preoccupations  society  uk  sameasintheus  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect — Say Hello to the New Permanent Underclass.
"Even more astounding is the extent to which child poverty is pervasive among African Americans. According to this new report research done last year, "Ninety percent of African-American children will receive SNAP benefits at some point before age 20, compared to 49 percent of all U.S. children. More than a third of black children live below the poverty line, and overall, 62 percent of black children live in low-income families (both poor and near-poor).""
poverty  class  us  policy  wealth  disparity  race  2010  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Macleans.ca » Blog Archive ‘Too Asian’? «
"Catherine Costigan, a psychology assistant prof at the University of Victoria, says it’s unsurprising that Asian students are segregated from “mainstream” campus life. She cites studies that show Chinese youth are bullied more than their non-Asian peers. As a so-called “model minority,” they are more frequently targeted because of being “too smart” and “teachers’ pets.” To counter peer ostracism and resentment, Costigan says Chinese students reaffirm their ethnicity.<br />
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The value of education has been drilled into Asian students by their parents, likely for cultural and socio-economic reasons. “It’s often described that Asians are the new Jews,” says Jon Reider, director of college counselling at San Francisco University High School and a former Stanford University admissions officer. “That in the face of discrimination, what you do is you study. And there’s a long tradition in Chinese culture, for example, going back to Confucius, of social mobility based on merit.”"
canada  race  education  universities  colleges  socialmobility  academics  meritocracy  admissions  studentlife  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
There's No Such Thing as "Cyberbullying" - Anil Dash [via: http://bettyann.tumblr.com/post/1225365840]
"By creating language like "cyberbullying", they abdicate their own role in the hateful actions, and blame the (presumably mysterious and unknowable) new technologies that their kids use for these awful situations.…

The truth of it is, calling the cruelty that kids show to one another, based on race or gender identity or class or any other imaginary difference, by a name like "cyberbullying" is a cop-out. It's a group of parents, school administrators and lazy reporters working together to shirk their own responsibility for the meanspirited, hateful, incomprehensible things their own kids do.

And it's a myth. There's no such thing as cyberbullying. There's only the cruelty in all of us, and the cowardice of making words to hide from it."
bullying  anildash  cyberbullying  media  myths  cruelty  parenting  schools  danahboyd  cowardice  racism  race  genderidentity  gender  class  differences  difference  journalism  socialmedia  technology  homophobia  children  teens  youth  toshare  topost 
october 2010 by robertogreco
There's No Such Thing as "Cyberbullying" - Anil Dash [via: http://bettyann.tumblr.com/post/1225365840]
"By creating language like "cyberbullying", they abdicate their own role in the hateful actions, and blame the (presumably mysterious and unknowable) new technologies that their kids use for these awful situations.…<br />
<br />
The truth of it is, calling the cruelty that kids show to one another, based on race or gender identity or class or any other imaginary difference, by a name like "cyberbullying" is a cop-out. It's a group of parents, school administrators and lazy reporters working together to shirk their own responsibility for the meanspirited, hateful, incomprehensible things their own kids do.<br />
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And it's a myth. There's no such thing as cyberbullying. There's only the cruelty in all of us, and the cowardice of making words to hide from it."
bullying  anildash  cyberbullying  media  myths  cruelty  parenting  schools  danahboyd  cowardice  racism  race  genderidentity  gender  class  differences  difference  journalism  socialmedia  technology  homophobia  children  teens  youth  toshare  topost  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect ["This is birtherism with big words. This is the witchdoctor sign without photoshop, WorldNetDaily without the exclamation points. …]
"…D’Souza doesn’t need to stare at Obama’s birth certificate for hours to come to same conclusion as birthers, which is that the president is a foreigner. But neither is “Kenyan anti-colonialism” a superficial term. At once, it engages all the racialized elements of the conservative critique of Obama—not just that having an African father means he isn’t really an American, but that his inner life consists of deep anger towards white people, & office of the presidency is merely means to secure a collective payback. It also manages to nod in the direction of another conservative racist meme, that having a black president makes the US somehow analagous to African third-world countries run by bloodthirsty despots. Gingrich took a break from his clownish Islamophobia this weekend to embrace this idiocy, & drew a much harsher reaction, in part because we’re still so silly about race in this country that we’re still disarmed when a person of color makes a blatantly racist argument."
2010  birthers  barackobama  race  us  history  presidency  newtgingrich  dinesgd'souza  adamserwer  racism  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
slacktivist: A letter dated August 7
"Jourdan Anderson, a citizen of the United States living in Ohio, sent the following letter to Col. P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tenn., who, according to American law, "owned" Jourdan Anderson as property prior to emancipation.<br />
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The letter is dated August 7, 1865, and was sent in response to Col. Anderson's invitation to return to Tennessee to work as a laborer.<br />
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The letter provides a valuable glimpse into the atrocious reality of our history, but it should also be studied and relished as one of the all time great examples of the cheerful and elaborately polite "Screw you.""
slavery  race  history  us  letters  writing  classideas  jourdananderson  freedom  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
On Education - Equity of Test Is Debated as Children Compete for Gifted Kindergarten - NYTimes.com
"That approach [decentralized admissions process] was criticized as vulnerable to political manipulation & racial favoritism, since districts could take into account increasing diversity in making selections.
testing  education  learning  kindergarten  diversity  race  standardizedtesting  gifted  testprep  money  class  influence  nyc  schools  sorting  tracking  favoritism  assessment  evaluation  equity  havesandhavenots 
august 2010 by robertogreco
If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged. « Restructure! [via: http://scudmissile.tumblr.com/post/866787875/]
"at least 75% of male CS undergraduates had parents who were affluent enough to be able to afford computers at a time when computers were very expensive. Clearly, enrollment in CS is a social product of class privilege, not innate ability. Furthermore, this implies that computer geek prestige is an indicator of class privilege, in addition to being connected to technical proficiency.
computerscience  privilege  programming  racism  sexism  technology  class  gender  race  computing  hacking  wealth  education  tcsnmy  1to1 
july 2010 by robertogreco
How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? - Culture - The Atlantic
"Man listen--Negroes like Atlanta. Negroes like Chicago. Negroes like Houston. Negroes like Raleigh-Durham (another area that doesn't make the cut, for some reason.) Negroes like Oakland. Negroes have the right to like where they live, independent of Massa, for their own particular, native, independent reasons (family? great barbecue? housing stock?) Just like Jewish-Americans have the right to like New York--or not. Just like Japanese-Americans have the right to like Cali--or not.
cities  race  ta-nehisicoates  portland  atlanta  nyc  houston  dallas  progressive  urban  diversity  chicago  seattle  austin  minneapolis  denver  oregon  losangeles  raleigh  2009  gentrification  politics  policy 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Jon Hall: the price of life
"But apparently for some people, some lives are worth more than others. I'm not advocating a reduced expenditure on the case of Chelsea King, not in the least. I do think though that the lives of 416 others—even illegal immigrant others—are worth something. Maybe even as much as a young, affluent white girl from Poway."
life  jonhall  immigration  borders  us  mexico  money  socialjustice  sandiego  politics  economics  race  wealth  disparity 
april 2010 by robertogreco
The Tea Party's Rank Amateurism - Politics - The Atlantic
"I hear GOP folks and Tea Partiers bemoaning the fact that media and Democrats are using the extremes of their movement for ratings and to score points. This is like Drew Brees complaining that Dwight Freeney keeps trying to sack him. If that were Martin Luther King's response to media coverage, the South might still be segregated. I exaggerate, but my point is that the whining reflects a basic misunderstanding of the rules of protest. When you lead a protest you lead it, you own it, and your opponents, and the media, will hold you responsible for whatever happens in the course of that protest. This isn't left-wing bias, it's the nature of the threat."
ta-nehisicoates  civilrights  conservatism  teaparty  us  gop  healthcare  politics  protest  racism  race  media  teabaggers 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com
"That tsunami of anger is gathering today is illogical, given what the right calls “Obamacare” is less provocative than either Civil Rights Act or Medicare...explanation is plain: health care bill is not main source of anger, never has been...merely handy excuse...real source of over-the-top rage of 2010 is same kind of national existential reordering that roiled US in 1964...conjunction of black president & female speaker of House — topped off by wise Latina on Supreme Court & powerful gay Congressional committee chair — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling & threatened minority...no matter what policies were in play...Demographics are avatars of change bigger than any bill contemplated by Obama/Congress...By 2012...non-Hispanic white births will be minority. Tea Party movement is virtually all white. Republicans haven’t 1 African-American in Senate/House since 2003 &...only 3 total since 1935. Their anxieties about rapidly changing America are well-grounded."
healthcare  demographics  government  health  republicans  racism  race  politics  culture  congress  us  2010  policy  teaparty  anger 
march 2010 by robertogreco
How to Raise Racist Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com
"Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.”
education  culture  parenting  race  racism  history  science  politics 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Shylock, My Students, and Me: An essay by Paula Marantz Cohen on 30 years of teaching The Merchant of Venice | The American Scholar
"What I’ve learned from 30 years of teaching The Merchant of Venice"
education  culture  multiculturalism  shakespeare  teaching  books  literature  themerchantofvenice  tcsnmy  academia  reading  race 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Students' refusal to state race on forms frustrates officials | McClatchy
"The growing reluctance to identify by a single race is reflected in national SAT scores. The number of students declining to state fell from 12 percent in 1999 to 4 percent in 2009, partly because students who skip the race/ethnicity question are now redirected back to it. But the number checking "other" has gone up 25 percent, said College Board spokeswoman Kathleen Fineout Steinberg.
race  identity  statistics  demographics  education 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Alice Waters–Edible Schoolyard Takedown in the 'Atlantic Monthly': Wrong, Wrong, Wrong | Serious Eats
Reacting to Caitline Flanagan's article in the Atlantic: "Nothing I've read has disgusted me this much since... well, Cleaving. Inflammatory race-baiting rhetoric aside, my first issue (and there are many) is that her point of departure seems to be the idea that the single purpose of schooling is to equip students to pass state-imposed milestones; to quote, "doing well on the state tests" and "passing Algebra I."
edibleschoolyard  alicewaters  education  learning  schools  unschooling  deschooling  progressive  caitlinflanagan  gardening  class  race  urbangardening  teaching  schooling  food  edlevin  seriouseats  lcproject  rote  rotelearning 
january 2010 by robertogreco
A City in Search of Good Fortune: Places: Design Observer
"Mention to anyone in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, that you are planning a trip to the port city of Buenaventura, on the Pacific Coast, and you will likely encounter stern warnings and looks of disbelief. Buenaventura holds a special, troubled place in the Colombian psyche. For decades the inability of the federal government to tame the hyper-violent city — despite efforts by the wildly popular and controversial president Alvaro Uribe — typifies the disruptive power of what has become a zone of insurgency — Colombia's "wild frontier." As recently as a few years ago, drug traffickers and right-wing militants fought daily turf wars in the city’s slums while guerrillas and paramilitaries battled for control of the sole access route to the city through the Andes. Although a massive military presence has dramatically improved security, even today skirmishes are not uncommon along the main road into the city, where the guerrillas now fight U.S.-trained Colombian government forces."
quilianriano  dkosseo-asare  colombia  development  cities  infrastructure  buenaventura  security  race  control  power 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Race and the new urbanism « Snarkmarket
"This is some­thing I think about a lot, not least because I’m an aspir­ing col­lege pro­fes­sor mar­ried to an urban plan­ning stu­dent who is also a black lady. Who doesn’t drive. And we have kids."

[references: http://www.newgeography.com/content/001110-the-white-city ]
race  cities  progressive  progressivism  us  portland  seattle  austin  minneapolis  sanfrancisco  snarkmarket  politics  urban  urbanism  planning  society 
october 2009 by robertogreco
The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment": Put the race talk aside: the issue here is abuse of police power, and misplaced deference to authority - Reason Magazine
"Police officers deserve the same courtesy we afford anyone else we encounter in public life—basic respect and civility. If they're investigating a crime, they deserve cooperation as required by law, and beyond that only to the extent to which the person with whom they're speaking is comfortable. Verbally disrespecting a cop may well be rude, but in a free society we can't allow it to become a crime, any more than we can criminalize criticism of the president, a senator, or the city council. There's no excuse for the harassment or arrest of those who merely inquire about their rights, who ask for an explanation of what laws they're breaking, or who photograph or otherwise document police officers on the job.
constitution  lawenforcement  rights  racism  henrylouisgates  police  abuse  liberty  humanrights  civilrights  politics  law  policy  race 
july 2009 by robertogreco
A man's home is his constitutional castle. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
"It is the U.S. Constitution, and not some competitive agglomeration of communities or constituencies, that makes a citizen the sovereign of his own home and privacy. There is absolutely no legal requirement to be polite in the defense of this right."
christopherhitchens  constitution  law  henrylouisgates  race  racism  rights  politics  freedom  civilrights 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Pasadena, California: 25 Years After Brown v. Board of Education
pasadena  education  achievementgap  busing  desegregation  poverty  race  history  brownvsboardofeducation  publicschools 
july 2009 by robertogreco
NYPL: Zadie Smith | ART.CULT [audio here: http://audio.wnyc.org/culture/culture20081205_nypl.mp3]
"Last night at the New York Public Library, author Zadie Smith asked what it means when we speak in different ways to different people. Is it a sign of duplicity or the mark of a complex sensibility? In this lecture, Zadie Smith takes a look at register and tone, from the academy to the streets, through black and white, with examples such as Eliza Doolittle, Shakespeare, and Obama. Here’s her lecture, live from the NYPL." See also: http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.com/2009/02/if-youve-got-hour-this-could-cheer-you.html AND http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22334
zadiesmith  barackobama  communication  literature  identity  race  speech  class  experience  accents  dialects  authenticity  culture  books  language  shakespeare  voice  uk  us  writing  politics  audio  recordings  poetry  cv  glvo  self  equivocation 
february 2009 by robertogreco
And Another Thing: If you've got an hour, this could cheer you up
"Today I heard a wonderful thing. It was a lecture called "Speaking In Tongues" given by Zadie Smith in New York. I'm too stupid to be able to capture any more than ten per cent of what she has to say but I found even that percentage inspiringly sane." See also: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22334 AND http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2008/12/06/speaking-in-tongues-live-at-the-nypl/
zadiesmith  via:russelldavies  barackobama  communication  literature  identity  race  speech  class  experience  accents  dialects  authenticity  culture  books  language  shakespeare  voice  uk  us  writing  politics  audio  recordings  poetry  self  equivocation 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Speaking in Tongues - The New York Review of Books [see also: http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.com/2009/02/if-youve-got-hour-this-could-cheer-you.html AND http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2008/12/06/speaking-in-tongues-live-at-the-nypl/]
"It's my audacious hope that a man born and raised between opposing dogmas, between cultures, between voices, could not help but be aware of the extreme contingency of culture. I further audaciously hope that such a man will not mistake the happy accident of his own cultural sensibilities for a set of natural laws, suitable for general application. I even hope that he will find himself in agreement with George Bernard Shaw when he declared, "Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it." But that may be an audacious hope too far. We'll see if Obama's lifelong vocal flexibility will enable him to say proudly with one voice "I love my country" while saying with another voice "It is a country, like other countries." I hope so. He seems just the man to demonstrate that between those two voices there exists no contradiction and no equivocation but rather a proper and decent human harmony."
zadiesmith  barackobama  communication  literature  identity  race  speech  class  experience  accents  dialects  authenticity  culture  books  language  shakespeare  voice  uk  us  writing  politics  audio  recordings  poetry  self  equivocation 
february 2009 by robertogreco
A Dogs Life, Aperrando, Beat, Hero Dog « Chile From Within
"They are to some extent adored and given nicknames and protection, as they permeate Chilean society. One blogger, Carmen Figueroa Cox, writing for the conservative, and “pure-bred” El Mercurio website, has even suggested that “quiltros” be Chile’s country image to reflect Chile’s actual mestizo state, and debunk the absurd pursuit of purity, and thus exclusivity and exceptionalism in Chilean blood lines. To Aperrar is a verb meaning “to dog it.” It is the closest thing to Beat, as used in On the Road, exhausted to the point of exaltation. But how did the quiltros get here. Well, I’d just say it is partially the irresponsibility of a country with fucked up views of virility and sex, even dog sex. Or at least this is what one person told me. Male dogs are not castrated because it is inhumane, said one dog owner in a conversation. These male dogs are also allowed to roam the streets at night, only to come home to scraps."
dogs  chile  animals  quiltros  identity  society  virility  image  language  words  race  self-image  kiltros 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Propongo al quiltro como imagen país - blogs | El Mercurio [via: http://tomasdinges.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/a-dogs-life-aperrando-beat-hero-dog/]
"Son el reflejo en cuatro patas del Chile real, el que se escabulle entre las estadísticas o se esconde a la sombra de los Sanhattan, las autopistas o el Costanera Center. El de millones -¿dos o cuatro?- de pobres. Personas. Me explico. El quiltro es un perro mestizo. Un híbrido. No es pastor alemán, ni labrador; no es un Dachshund o un terrier. Pero puede ser todo eso a la vez. Esa mezcla es, quizás, lo que lo hace tan inteligente y encantador. ¿Nos interpretan? Ojalá así lo reconociéramos, pero las cifras dicen otra cosa: un poco menos de la mitad de los connacionales dice ser de tez blanca o piel clara, y una proporción igual reconoce no ser ni moreno ni claro. Pero sólo hay que salir del continente para darse cuenta de que la autoclasificación no calza, y frente a un norteamericano o un europeo pasamos rápidamente a formar parte del escaso 16 por ciento que reconoce ser de tez morena o piel oscura."
dogs  animals  quitros  chile  identity  race  society  image  self-image 
december 2008 by robertogreco
The End of White Flight - WSJ.com
"For much of the 20th century, the proportion of whites shrank in most U.S. cities. In recent years the decline has slowed considerably -- and in some significant cases has reversed. Between 2000 and 2006, eight of the 50 largest cities, including Boston, Seattle and San Francisco, saw the proportion of whites increase, according to Census figures. The previous decade, only three cities saw increases.
via:javierarbona  population  demographics  development  cities  urban  culture  us  suburbia  race  rights  gentrification  class  society 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Keith Richburg: America is showing Europe the way again | Comment is free | The Observer
"So it's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a Barack Obama emerging in Europe soon.
race  europe  us  barackobama  politics  racism  elections  2008 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Oct. 19: Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.), Chuck Todd, political roundtable - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, "He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists." This is not the way we should be doing it in America."
2008  elections  johnmccain  barackobama  race  religion  colinpowell 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Seed: How We Evolve
"since the turn of the millennium, genomics has undergone a revolution. With the completion of such landmark studies as the Human Genome Project and the publication of HapMap, scientists finally have access to the particles of evolution. They can inspect vast stretches of DNA from people of all ethnicities, and the colossal amount of information suddenly available has spurred a revision of the old static picture that will render it unrecognizable. Harpending and a host of researchers have discovered in our DNA evidence that culture, far from halting evolution, appears to accelerate it."
human  evolution  science  genetics  anthropology  culture  biology  race  DNA  academia  evolutionarypsychology  psychology  intelligence  society 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The Field: Evolutionary Leaps and American Public Opinion [by Al Giordano] [pair with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50]
"Their obsession ... masks a fear of the inverse: What if, suddenly, the story of this election becomes that moment in history when millions of American citizens evolved beyond fixed patterns and fears regarding race? ... What happens if the economic stresses suddenly push people, however reluctantly, into voting in their economic self-interest even if it means voting against their own racial prejudices?...Evolutionary leaps, if they exist, are not everyday occurrences. What I'm saying is that the patient - that racially fearful white American - is stressed and heavily so. And that's one of the objective conditions - according to at least one laboratory study - that leads to leaps in evolution and, maybe, just maybe, to mutations in the evolution of public opinion. In the lab it took some stressed conditions plus a catalyst - some amino acids - to cause a species to evolve. In human history, it takes stressed conditions... plus a movement."
barackobama  2008  elections  gamechanging  historicmoments  evolutionaryleaps  politics  economics  race  racism  us  society  johnmccain  via:migurski 
october 2008 by robertogreco
A life in writing: Derek Walcott | Books | The Guardian
""I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays...Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses?...You can't act a myth...the poet...can make his language grandiose, but the interior tone must be human. That's the achievement of Shakespeare: this grandiose poetry is spoken as if somebody could say it""; "Walcott insisted on "the importance of the shape that you make out of a poem...Pasternak said: 'Great poets have no time to be original.'" Imitation..."is not only a form of flattery, but is in a way creation. No two things are going to be alike. Whatever you bring to the craft is going to be individualistic"; ""the totalitarian view of anything, the callous view, the indifference to beauty. If you are indifferent to that, as part of your politics, then everything is permissible. If you can say God is dead, then harmony is dead, melody is dead, music is dead, therefore faith is dead. Therefore it's easy to do what you have to do in the name of necessity""
via:preoccupations  derekwalcott  poetry  ancientgreece  inspiration  originality  literature  storytelling  writing  latinamerica  caribbean  imitation  creativity  opera  race 
october 2008 by robertogreco
A 1926 Brazilian sci-fi novel predicts a U.S. election determined by race and gender. - By Manuela Zoninsein - Slate
"O Presidente Negro envisions the 2228 U.S. presidential election. In that race, the white male incumbent, President Kerlog, finds himself running against Evelyn Astor, a white feminist, and James Roy Wilde, the cultivated and brilliant leader of the Black Association, "a man who is more than just a single man ... what we call a leader of the masses.""
brasil  sciencefiction  scifi  monteirolobato  literature  politics  elections  us  race 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Archinect : Features : Office/MA: Black Urbanism
"It may appear that their project shares much in common with Teddy Cruz, who draws from the spatial strategies of border communities and shantytowns in order to build a more adaptive architecture. But then - Cruz doesn't exactly brand his research as "Latin urbanism." So is "Black urbanism" just a provocation, or do the spatial resistance strategies of urban black communities differ from other immigrant and diasporic communities?
architecture  london  race  blackurbanism  urbanism  culture 
september 2008 by robertogreco
This is Your Nation on White Privilege | Red Room
"For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help."
whiteprivilege  racism  politics  barackobama  sarahpalin  johnmccain  elections  2008  us  race  gender 
september 2008 by robertogreco
The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US | Media | The Guardian
"Yet there is also something appalling in the suggestion that a television drama - a presumed entertainment - might be a focal point for a discussion of what has gone wrong in urban America, for why we have become a society that no longer even recognises the depth of our problems, much less works to solve any of them. But where else is the why even being argued any more? Not in the stunted political discourse of an American election cycle, not in an eviscerated, self-absorbed press, not in any construct to which the empowered America, the comfortable and comforted America, gives its limited attention....we are separate nations at this point. Few of us ever cross the frontier to hear voices different from our own."
davidsimon  us  thewire  baltimore  politics  culture  tv  television  society  urban  urbanism  police  drugs  race  crime  poverty 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Do better schools help the poor? | csmonitor.com
"This fundamental finding, supported by multiple studies over the past few decades, calls into question the claim made by the EEP about the potential of school reorganization and the adoption of rigid measures to close the academic achievement gap."
schools  change  education  reform  policy  us  race  class  society 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The White Stuff | The American Prospect - "What does an extremely popular new blog about white culture tell us about race in America?"
"The blog is primarily a place for white people to chortle at the oddities of race and class and then congratulate themselves for having done so, thus neatly avoiding the need to delve any deeper."
race  racism  culture  us  society  class 
july 2008 by robertogreco
America's suburbs | An age of transformation | Economist.com
"America's suburbs are coming to resemble its city centres. That is both good news and bad"
suburbs  cities  housing  demographics  trends  urbanism  us  race  society  suburbia  sprawl  immigration  urbanplanning  urban  planning  future  development  sociology  community  culture  suburban 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Borrow a Muslim? A 'living library' to prick stereotypes | csmonitor.com
"Living library: Readers at this east London library 'borrowed' individuals to challenge their own prejudices. On loan here: an Indian atheist, a policeman, a witch, and stay-at-home dad."
communication  culture  libraries  sociology  understanding  society  prejudice  race  religion  lifestyle  people 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Interactive Graphic - How Different Groups Voted in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries - Politics - NYTimes.com
By gender, race, age, income, and education – there are some clear preferences.
via:tomc  politics  us  voting  race  gender  wealth  education  barackobama  hillaryclinton  elections  2008  infographics  visualization 
june 2008 by robertogreco
the conceptual and controversial artwork of santiago sierra
"his work is a direct reflection of his personal view of capitalism, globalisation, race and many other controversial issues. most know sierra’s work for being extremely controversial"
art  spain  mexico  globalization  race  capitalism 
june 2008 by robertogreco
One of the interesting findings of Elizabeth Spelke's Harvard baby... (kottke.org)
"One of the interesting findings of Elizabeth Spelke's Harvard baby brain research lab is that while babies prefer looking at pictures of people of their own race over other races, they are much more biased about language."
children  brain  research  parenting  race  language  science 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing
"What with kids these days being all media-saturated, a good image is often more effective for getting point across than all the citations, repetition, or jumping up & down & saying "really I swear" can ever do. This blog is a space for us to share those
advertising  sociology  gender  race  class  politics  psychology  visualization  media  images  culture 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Blues for Obama
"Barack Obama is now established as one of those rare, courageous teachers who leads the country onto new ground. He has given us a way to talk about race and our other differences with the clarity and honesty that politics does not normally tolerate."
politics  activism  racism  truth  race  2008  barackobama  elections  us 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
"From Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic comes the reporting that Obama wrote his speech on race and America himself. Reports Ambinder:"
barackobama  elections  2008  authenticity  racism  race  speech  writing  us  politics 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Text of Obama's Speech: A More Perfect Union
"Text of Obama’s Speech: A More Perfect Union Here, the full text of Sen. Barack Obama’s speech, “A More Perfect Union,” as prepared for delivery."
barackobama  democracy  us  2008  race  politics  racism  speech  history 
march 2008 by robertogreco
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