tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21945895928831801162024-03-19T02:00:28.793-07:00Diversity DerrickBlog for educators and school people interested in diversity and inclusion for allAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-5985288598767334032016-01-02T08:32:00.003-08:002016-01-02T08:32:50.779-08:00Damed if you do, damned if you don't : The Myth of the Model Asian Minority.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This informative New York Times article provides an accessible and instructive case studies of how recent racial demographic shifts have yielded a dynamic in affluent public school districts where Asian-Americans and Whites compete for coveted college admissions. As the racial and ethnic demographics of the United States continue to evolve, historically unchallenged racialized assumptions regarding t<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">he nature, aims and distribution of education will continue to come to a head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moreover, if history teaches us anything, the rules of the game will also evolve. Consider this: a recent study found that white definitions of college admissions and merit change when they think about Asian Americans (<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/13/white-definitions-merit-and-admissions-change-when-they-think-about-asian-americans" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.insidehighered.com/…/white-definitions-merit-an…</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Here's the thing: people of color have long known (and again, longitudinal empirical research would corroborate) that we need to be twice as prepared to even be considered to gain access to networks. The challenge is that meritocracy, white privilege and post-racial ideologies complicate excavating this reality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Controlling for socioeconomics in a largely affluent district, it follows that race mediates the attitudes, expectations, behaviors and advocacy of the parents of different racial groups. Until we acknowledge that the American system of education was not conceived as meritocratic or to "level the playing field," we will continue to run around in circles, waste resources and replicate inequities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out the article here:<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/nyregion/reforms-to-ease-students-stress-divide-a-new-jersey-school-district.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1">Times Article </a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Far from 'grief bashing," this balanced article advances a legitimate argument regarding normative </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put more simply, to what degree does who you are (or where you live) mediate your basic right to shared </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">humanity, empathy and compassion? Far more nuanced than a reductionist argument that suggests that </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">caring deeply about Paris precludes equally deep sentiments about Beirut, or Syria-- or the deaths in </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chicago for this matter; or that heightening awareness around this empathy deficit model is akin to lack </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dominant narrative that continues to value some lives over others?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;">French friends.I also have visited and love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 14px;">Beirut, and have many friends who live in Beirut or have </span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-43430859428278772512015-08-03T06:42:00.000-07:002015-08-03T06:58:33.257-07:00Cecil Who? Putting Cecil into Perspective<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">boy herding cattle with my friends in a village in Zimbabwe, we fought boys from another </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">community for killing defenseless little birds. I despise cruelty in general, particularly toward </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">wild creatures.</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">But it is important to put the outrage over Cecil’s death into perspective. We </span></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-24346432773009258712015-05-04T20:08:00.000-07:002015-05-04T20:08:02.894-07:00Strong Opinion or Informed Opinion? What Do You Know About Baltimore?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The recent events in Baltimore do not reflect an isolated event; rather; the frustration that manifested in protest is the product of a number of sociopolitical and historical considerations. Generating a comprehensive analysis requires pulling from a number of disciplines, many of which are beyond the expertise of most educators.<br />
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A few days ago I happened upon a veritable treasure trove of resources, which I now share with you. Unfortunately, the humble saint that culled these resources together did not provide a name, as I imagine recognition was not her/his primary aim. I have not read read each and every resource, but a cursory eyeballing reveals a great number of valuable resources.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In Defense of Black Rage”</span></div>
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<a href="https://mail.montclair.k12.nj.us/owa/redir.aspx?C=81xfg5d860OA92KwYC26dnfDj95DVdII010l_pXa7GsGppCOX8hGGUqkZSB57JaCdywPbaBdGws.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.salon.com%2f2014%2f08%2f12%2fin_defense_of_black_rage_michael_brown_police_and_the_american_dream%2f" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.salon.com/2014/08/<wbr></wbr>12/in_defense_of_black_rage_<wbr></wbr>michael_brown_police_and_the_<wbr></wbr>american_dream/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In Ferguson, the Violence of the State Created the Violence of the Street”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/18/ferguson-violence-martin-luther-king-michael-brown" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>commentisfree/2014/aug/18/<wbr></wbr>ferguson-violence-martin-<wbr></wbr>luther-king-michael-brown</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resisting State Violence: Justice or Just Us?</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/resisting-state-violence/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.counterpunch.org/<wbr></wbr>2014/12/05/resisting-state-<wbr></wbr>violence/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bell hooks “killing rage”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/resources/diversity/KillingRageEndingRacism_part1.pdf" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.cds.hawaii.edu/<wbr></wbr>sites/default/files/downloads/<wbr></wbr>resources/diversity/<wbr></wbr>KillingRageEndingRacism_part1.<wbr></wbr>pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Two Reports Illustrate the Paradox of Baltimore”</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/01/05/two-reports-illustrate-the-paradox-of-baltimore-a-high-poverty-city-that-attracts-young-educated/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.baltimorebrew.com/<wbr></wbr>2015/01/05/two-reports-<wbr></wbr>illustrate-the-paradox-of-<wbr></wbr>baltimore-a-high-poverty-city-<wbr></wbr>that-attracts-young-educated/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A Tale of Two Baltimores” (2011)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7J794-zddE&feature=share" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=j7J794-zddE&feature=share</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Brutality of Police Culture on Baltimore” </span></div>
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<a href="https://mail.montclair.k12.nj.us/owa/redir.aspx?C=81xfg5d860OA92KwYC26dnfDj95DVdII010l_pXa7GsGppCOX8hGGUqkZSB57JaCdywPbaBdGws.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theatlantic.com%2fpolitics%2farchive%2f2015%2f04%2fthe-brutality-of-police-culture-in-baltimore%2f391158%2f" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.theatlantic.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/archive/2015/04/the-<wbr></wbr>brutality-of-police-culture-<wbr></wbr>in-baltimore/391158/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Baltimore Youths Have it Worse Than Those in Nigeria”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/baltimore-poverty/?utm_content=buffere4a07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.vocativ.com/<wbr></wbr>culture/society/baltimore-<wbr></wbr>poverty/?utm_content=<wbr></wbr>buffere4a07&utm_medium=social&<wbr></wbr>utm_source=twitter.com&utm_<wbr></wbr>campaign=buffer</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ten Shocking Facts About Baltimore”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/ten-shocking-facts-about-baltimore" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.alternet.org/<wbr></wbr>economy/ten-shocking-facts-<wbr></wbr>about-baltimore</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Baltimore Uprising in Context” </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2015/04/27/baltimore-uprising-in-context/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.racismreview.com/<wbr></wbr>blog/2015/04/27/baltimore-<wbr></wbr>uprising-in-context/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In Baltimore, We’re All Freddie Gray”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/opinion/in-baltimore-were-all-freddie-gray.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/<wbr></wbr>04/29/opinion/in-baltimore-<wbr></wbr>were-all-freddie-gray.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://data.baltimoresun.com/<wbr></wbr>news/police-settlements/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“David Simon in Baltimore’s Anguish” (interview)</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.<wbr></wbr>themarshallproject.org/2015/<wbr></wbr>04/29/david-simon-on-<wbr></wbr>baltimore-s-anguish</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We Have a Right to Be in the Streets for Freddie”</span></div>
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<a href="https://mail.montclair.k12.nj.us/owa/redir.aspx?C=81xfg5d860OA92KwYC26dnfDj95DVdII010l_pXa7GsGppCOX8hGGUqkZSB57JaCdywPbaBdGws.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsocialistworker.org%2f2015%2f04%2f27%2fin-the-streets-for-freddie" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://socialistworker.org/<wbr></wbr>2015/04/27/in-the-streets-for-<wbr></wbr>freddie</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Dominant White Response to Baltimore Shows Why Black Residents Are Justified in Their Anger”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/28/1380944/-The-Dominant-White-Response-to-Baltimore-Shows-Why-Black-Residents-are-Justified-in-their-Anger" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.dailykos.com/story/<wbr></wbr>2015/04/28/1380944/-The-<wbr></wbr>Dominant-White-Response-to-<wbr></wbr>Baltimore-Shows-Why-Black-<wbr></wbr>Residents-are-Justified-in-<wbr></wbr>their-Anger#</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Baltimore: The Fire Next Time”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Baltimore’s Violent Protestors Are Right”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/28/baltimores_violent_protesters_are_right_smashing_police_cars_is_a_legitimate_political_strategy/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.salon.com/2015/04/<wbr></wbr>28/baltimores_violent_<wbr></wbr>protesters_are_right_smashing_<wbr></wbr>police_cars_is_a_legitimate_<wbr></wbr>political_strategy/?utm_<wbr></wbr>source=facebook&utm_medium=<wbr></wbr>socialflow</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(please note: the title of the blog where this was originally posted is a political re-appropriation of “faggot”)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Nonviolence as Compliance”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.theatlantic.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/archive/2015/04/<wbr></wbr>nonviolence-as-compliance/<wbr></wbr>391640/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">historical perspective: The Kerner Commission Report on “riots,” 1968</span></div>
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<a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://historymatters.gmu.edu/<wbr></wbr>d/6545/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A History of Rap Songs Against Police Brutality”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.complex.com/music/2014/08/rap-songs-police-brutality/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.complex.com/music/<wbr></wbr>2014/08/rap-songs-police-<wbr></wbr>brutality/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Silence on Black Female Victims Weakens Fight Against Police Brutality”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kali-nicole-gross/silence-on-black-female-victims_b_7092128.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/<wbr></wbr>kali-nicole-gross/silence-on-<wbr></wbr>black-female-victims_b_<wbr></wbr>7092128.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Baltimore Rebellion”</span></div>
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<a href="http://socialistworker.org/2015/04/29/the-baltimore-rebellion" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://socialistworker.org/<wbr></wbr>2015/04/29/the-baltimore-<wbr></wbr>rebellion</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HaaRZ8nxd4&feature=youtu.be" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=0HaaRZ8nxd4&feature=youtu.be</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Go Home, David Simon: Without Justice in Baltimore, There Can be No Peace” (a critique of SImon’s blog post criticizing “rioters”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/28/go-home-david-simon-no-justice-no-peace-baltimore?CMP=fb_gu" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>commentisfree/2015/apr/28/go-<wbr></wbr>home-david-simon-no-justice-<wbr></wbr>no-peace-baltimore?CMP=fb_gu</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What’s Happening in Baltimore Didn’t Just Start with Freddie Gray”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/freddie-gray-baltimore-history_n_7161962.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/<wbr></wbr>2015/04/28/freddie-gray-<wbr></wbr>baltimore-history_n_7161962.<wbr></wbr>html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IV.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the Bigger Picture</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.broomcenter.ucsb.edu/files/publications/pdf/rios1.pdf" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.broomcenter.ucsb.<wbr></wbr>edu/files/publications/pdf/<wbr></wbr>rios1.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration”</span></div>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8eBQGZrG7BFdnhWRzNNNl9ZOHM/edit" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://docs.google.com/file/<wbr></wbr>d/<wbr></wbr>0B8eBQGZrG7BFdnhWRzNNNl9ZOHM/<wbr></wbr>edit</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Why Don’t American Cities Burn Very Often?”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.uk.sagepub.com/martin3study/articles/Katz.pdf" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.uk.sagepub.com/<wbr></wbr>martin3study/articles/Katz.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Who Killed L.A.: A Political Autopsy”</span></div>
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<a href="http://newleftreview.org/I/197/mike-davis-who-killed-los-angeles-a-political-autopsy" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://newleftreview.org/I/<wbr></wbr>197/mike-davis-who-killed-los-<wbr></wbr>angeles-a-political-autopsy</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Case for Reparations”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.theatlantic.com/<wbr></wbr>features/archive/2014/05/the-<wbr></wbr>case-for-reparations/361631/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Segregation Now: The Re-segregation of America’s Schools”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-the-resegregation-of-americas-schools/#intro" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.propublica.org/<wbr></wbr>article/segregation-now-the-<wbr></wbr>resegregation-of-americas-<wbr></wbr>schools/#intro</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Night Chicago Burned”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-night-chicago-burned/Content?oid=872662" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.chicagoreader.com/<wbr></wbr>chicago/the-night-chicago-<wbr></wbr>burned/Content?oid=872662</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement”</span></div>
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<a href="http://thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://thefeministwire.com/<wbr></wbr>2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Race: The Power of an Illusion – Episode 3 – “The House We Live In”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-about-03.htm" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.pbs.org/race/000_<wbr></wbr>About/002_04-about-03.htm</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.</span></div>
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<a href="http://brokenonallsides.com/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://brokenonallsides.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The House I Live In</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thehouseilivein.org/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.thehouseilivein.<wbr></wbr>org/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/hard-times-at-douglass-high-no-child-left-behind#/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.hbo.com/<wbr></wbr>documentaries/hard-times-at-<wbr></wbr>douglass-high-no-child-left-<wbr></wbr>behind#/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequality</span></div>
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<a href="http://crackingthecodes.org/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://crackingthecodes.org/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-black-power-mixtape" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/<wbr></wbr>the-black-power-mixtape</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revolution ‘67</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.bongiornoproductions.com/REVOLUTION_67/REVOLUTION_67.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>bongiornoproductions.com/<wbr></wbr>REVOLUTION_67/REVOLUTION_67.<wbr></wbr>html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/revolution67/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.pbs.org/pov/<wbr></wbr>revolution67/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crips & Bloods: Made in America</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPS9s3VrsdM" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=fPS9s3VrsdM</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crips-Bloods-Made-In-America/dp/B006JJ9JV2" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.amazon.com/Crips-<wbr></wbr>Bloods-Made-In-America/dp/<wbr></wbr>B006JJ9JV2</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Throwaways:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://throwawaysmovie.com/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://throwawaysmovie.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Eyes on the Prize: Two Societies</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJNt-LKVNE" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=DBJNt-LKVNE</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VI.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Books</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernández-Kelly</span></div>
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<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10328.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://press.princeton.edu/<wbr></wbr>titles/10328.html</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (twenty year ethnography of Baltimore)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</span></div>
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<a href="http://newjimcrow.com/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://newjimcrow.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City</span></div>
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<a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Code-of-the-Street/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://books.wwnorton.com/<wbr></wbr>books/Code-of-the-Street/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Work Disappears, the World of the New Urban Poor </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/192111/when-work-disappears-by-william-julius-wilson/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.penguinrandomhouse.<wbr></wbr>com/books/192111/when-work-<wbr></wbr>disappears-by-william-julius-<wbr></wbr>wilson/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy</span></div>
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<a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo13375722.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/<wbr></wbr>books/book/chicago/T/<wbr></wbr>bo13375722.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City</span></div>
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<a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/More-than-Just-Race/" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://books.wwnorton.com/<wbr></wbr>books/More-than-Just-Race/</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Black-Liberation-and-Socialism" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.haymarketbooks.org/<wbr></wbr>pb/Black-Liberation-and-<wbr></wbr>Socialism</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018211" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.hup.harvard.edu/<wbr></wbr>catalog.php?isbn=9780674018211</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 </span></div>
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<a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3627598.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/<wbr></wbr>books/book/chicago/M/<wbr></wbr>bo3627598.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.feministes-<wbr></wbr>radicales.org/wp-content/<wbr></wbr>uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-<wbr></wbr>Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not In My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Historical overview of Baltimore, especially around housing and segregation)</span></div>
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<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781566638432/Not-in-My-Neighborhood-How-Bigotry-Shaped-a-Great-American-City" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://rowman.com/ISBN/<wbr></wbr>9781566638432/Not-in-My-<wbr></wbr>Neighborhood-How-Bigotry-<wbr></wbr>Shaped-a-Great-American-City</span></a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-86307604826671846432015-02-09T19:50:00.000-08:002015-02-10T06:46:09.038-08:00" You Don't Look Like You Can Run A Marathon!" : Fat Girl Running<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This can certainly seem overwhelming, both for young people as they construct ideas about their identity and beauty as well as for adults as we strive to maintain our individuality against the ubiquitous forces that conspire to define a single image of beauty. And all within a consumerist framework! Lest we forget, being beautiful usually requires buying a product or service. If anything, today's notion of beauty has little to do with "natural." Notwithstanding, there are increasing counternarratives that challenge this single story of beauty.<br />
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One such striking counternarrative is that of one of my dear friends from Oberlin Conservatory, Mirna Valerio, another fellow linguist, educator and musician. Mirna is also incredibly athletic, having always participated in some sport since middle school. Moreover, Mirna is unashamedly " not a little girl" and can literally run circles around the best of us. When she isn't conducting her student choir at Rabun-Gap, traveling to Italy to perfect her already-fluent Italian, attending AP Spanish conferences or training for marathons in the woods, she chronicles her experience as a " Fat Girl Running". Take a look here:<br />
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The title of my current blog entry is inspired by an anecdote that Mirna shares regarding the repeated surprise that she encounters of those who make assumptions about her athleticism based on THEIR perception of her body size. This "surprise" manifests in a perhaps well-intentioned but equally ill-placed, "<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>You</i></b> </span>don't look like you can run a marathon!" Wow, deconstruction of this comment merits an entire post until itself.<br />
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As it turns out, however, I'm not the only member of the Mirna Valerio Fan Club, as she was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article that examines the benefits of exercise beyond weightloss.You can read the article here:<br />
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Im thrilled to share a recent article that was published highlighting my involvement in framing "Diversity Day " at The Archer School For Girls, in Los Angeles, California:<br />
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While I must concede that I have mixed feelings regarding the nomenclature around "Diversity Day," as this framing has historically encouraged a one-off celebration that institutions then check off their To-Do lists, I nonetheless leverage these opportunities to engage in critical inclusivity frameworks of identity, conceptual frameworks, language, power, privilege, positionality and exploring ways in which social identity is stratified in our society.<br />
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With specific regard to The Archer School, based on the robust engagement with students and thoughtful conversations with faculty, administrators and parents that I've experienced during my two visits, I have every confidence that they will continue to engage in this critical discourse and integrate ongoing insights into Archer programs, policies, practices and interpersonal behavior. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-73165540887386462042015-02-07T09:51:00.000-08:002015-02-09T14:11:23.706-08:00How Many Black Friends Do You Have?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-33685282989236793892015-01-30T19:53:00.001-08:002015-02-13T15:11:23.844-08:00First " The Help" and Now This! : The Latest 'White Savior" Movie That I Wont Go See<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-23363245967024434142014-11-14T17:33:00.000-08:002015-02-13T15:10:10.841-08:00The Easiest Way To Make The World A Better Place!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>So what can I do to increase my cultural competence?</b><br />
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One of the challenges of fostering a more inclusive society is that we often lack authentic and meaningful relationships with people who are different to us. Indeed, research indicates that in many parts of the country, we are more racially and economically segregated today than we were just 20 years ago. So how do we learn more about each other?<br />
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In the course of my work with schools across the county, I'm often asked to suggest strategies to help individuals increase their culture competency. Or, more simply put, how can I learn foster my ongoing learning about people backgrounds and perspectives different from mine.<br />
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Today a friend shared a simple yet powerful strategy that I would now like to share with you:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-46172117536812513222014-10-30T08:15:00.002-07:002015-02-13T15:08:45.052-08:00The Catcalling Video: The Big Elephant that the Producers Didn't See!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">A few days ago Slate posted a video of a young woman who chronicled the challenges that many women in Manhattan face , and presumably many other places, of negotiating catcalling, unwanted attention from men. My understanding is that the purpose of the video was to raise awareness around this issue with the goal of educating men to make better decisions and foster a more inclusive environment for women. So far, I'm onboard.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Upon clicking the video, however, I was APPALLED. Mind you, I am a </span></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">feminist and have dedicated my career to fostering a more inclusive environment for all people. I am ally. I opened the video with the hopes of deepening my understanding in the ways that this dynamic manifests. Best of all cases, I could even incorporate the video into my practice and workshops around gender equality. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Unfortunately, the video drowns in clear positionality bias. The original article suggests that from amongst at least 600 minutes of footage and potentially thousands of interactions between and among this young lady and catcallers, the producers of the video selected 3 minutes that are meant to capture her Manhattan experience( looks like Soho, Harlem, Times Square and). This footage evidences overwhelming representation of black and Latino men. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Tag: implicit bias, danger of single story, pathologization of black and Latino men. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">And because as a society we are largely composed of uncritical consumers of internet "journalism" and mainstream "research" (yet often espousing largely uninformed opinions) the link has gone viral. And so has the visual blueprint and priming of the nature of catcalling-- how it manifests, what it looks like, WHO initiates and who is the victim. Above and beyond the lack of this critical cultural piece is the unfortunate residual outcome of this video, which parenthetically occurs far too often in these situations: a deflection from the intended issue. To be sure, catcalling and unwanted advances from men warrants increased awareness and corresponding actions.It's unfortunate, however, that this video misses the mark in some fairly significant ways.</span></span></span><br />
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http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/29/hey-beautiful-on-the-racist-and-classist-implications-of-the-catcalling-video/<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945054243822856605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194589592883180116.post-80112530724956733992014-10-25T13:42:00.000-07:002015-02-13T15:21:59.020-08:00Why Diversity Doesn't Always Help!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So this is it-- my first blog post. After 5 years of serving as an independent resource to hundreds of schools in the US and abroad and 18 years of involvement in educational spaces dedicated to diversity and inclusion, I have finally "found the time" to create a blog. In the spirit of full transparency, I was also " strongly encouraged" by Joe Mazza, my STEM professor at University of Pennsylvannia, where I am currently a doctoral student.<br />
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While I don't regard myself as a "blogger" or "writer," per se, I am nonetheless committed to my longstanding idea of providing a resource for educators, faculty and staff, and students interested in enriching community and promoting inclusion within their schools-- public, charter, independent, and parochial. I hope that this is the first of numerous relevant, meaningful and instructive posts to that end.<br />
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After successfully jumping the preliminary hurdles of identifying a platform and setting up the blog, I then encountered the challenge of naming the blog. This was doubly frustrating because I wanted to choose a name that could be easily recalled and searchable amidst the sea of blogs, but I also acknowledged the baggage associated with the word "diversity."I have found during the nearly two decades that I have have engaged in diversity work that "diversity" doesn't always help!<br />
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Why? In many circles, "diversity" functions as an identity and represents specific historically marginalized groups, ranging from blacks, Latinos, Asians, gays, Jews, women-- anyone but straight Christian men. While this view is rarely articulated, it is commonly understood. Think about it-- whom do you picture attending a "diversity" meeting? I've even heard a number of people proclaim , proudly, that they are "diverse"-- which suggests that other people aren't diverse. It makes sense, then, that people think that "diversity" initiatives only serve to benefit the "diverse." Or, that the goals of "diversity" aim to indict or take away from "non-diverse" people in support of "diverse" people.<br />
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Conversely, many have lamented not being able to attend diversity meetings as they felt that their needs and identity would not be addressed. So whom do diversity initiatives benefit employing this framing? It's time we rethink and reframe "diversity" if the goal is truly to promote fostering an inclusive, equitable and democratic society.<br />
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So part of intentionally naming this blog" Diversity Derrick" is an effort to reclaim and reframe "diversity" in a way that actually promotes increased humanity, while integrating the perspectives and experiences of all people. Diversity should ideally encompass all identities while also galvanizing people from all backgrounds to collaborate toward our common community goals. This also suggests acknowledging the ways in which identities are stratified in a society that don't value all people equally.<br />
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If you have 7 minutes, I invite you to watch my Tedx Talk where I explore this notion of the double-edged sword of diversity:<br />
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And with that, the first blog post has been written!<br />
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