…ns relevant and just as important as ever. Gift Ideas: The Multiracial Child Resource book is a great gift for educators, community workers, youth workers, librarians, parents, etc. and only $15 (including shipping!). http://www.mavinfoundation.org/new/multiracial-child-resource-book/ https://www.facebook.com/mixedheritage Mixed Roots Stories âWe are a non profit that believes that stories have the power to strengthen communities. We support…
…y run by the Irish clergy whose work was commissioned by the state broadcaster RTE, produced The Black Irish, a documentary on mixed-race people in Kinsale, Montserrat. Recut trailer for Irish language TV channel TG4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHYFXDGf4Y Full documentary: http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1378-radharc/355633-the-black-irish/ In The Commitments (Parker, 1991), the black and mixed-race Irish are an absent presence as…
…iteâ and âBlackâ as historical terms gained power within the conceptual that has never been fully developed. This history is also what complicated issues that made the line between them less distinct. And here, Multi Racial identities become actively political. To have someone who physically embodied White and Black is to actively challenge not simply the hierarchy, but the categorizations themselves. This was the reasoning behind legal…
…nder the impression that the question was about the revolts of 1968: http://www.historytoday.com/blog/news-blog/dean-nicholas/zhou-enlais-famous-saying-debunked?ip_login_no_cache=cd84e3312dd0f3dcf3c621eedcb4d701 . [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEO3H5BOlFk [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsZ6G7jmcMQ [4] http://chicagomaroon.com/2010/02/26/student-arrested-in-reg/ [5]…
…ority of us knew and understood the experience of being low-income as a large difficulty. A number of friends were frustrated by a lack of understanding as to why affirmative action helped make a level playing-field, but I found it easier to discuss with my high school classmates, a majority of which had their own problems navigating the racial hierarchy. The transition to the University of Chicago thus became a similar marker. I had spent…
…he clips from the LIVE event on the closing night of the conference! Note: Mature Language in several of the pieces. Part 1 â Joe Hernandez-Kolski (with guest Dustin) www.pochojoe.com Part 2â Joe Hernandez-Kolski www.pochojoe.com Part 3-Tangled Roots (Katy Massey, Zodwa Nyoni, Lladel Bryant, Adam Lowe) www.tangledroot.org.uk Part 5-Tania Cañas www.tania-canas.squarespace.com Part 6â Fred Sasaki Part 7 â Joe Hernandez-…
…partment to address bias. With so much to do, itâs a start. Poems: http://allpoetry.com/I-Continue-To-Dream http://allpoetry.com/Let-America-Be-America-Again http://allpoetry.com/Freedomâs-Plow Songs: If I Had a Hammer www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaWl2lA7968 When The Spirit Says Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OszKIhFRsQ The Fire of Commitment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKPtFPMf7A Jenn Kanze-Eaton lives by the sea in Plymouth…
…le with race as a biracial, adopted child. Read her 3 part story recently published on the Elephant Journal. Part I http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/03/raised-white-an-identity-crisis-part-i-melissa-horton/ Part II http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/03/raised-white-an-identity-crisis-melissa-horton/ Part III http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/03/raised-white-struggles-with-abandonment-melissa-horton/ Part IV…
…agettes and Workers on Bikes.â Crazyguyonabike, 26 Jan. 2007, 04:47, crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=46873 Erdman, Shelby Lin. âHow the Bicycle Changed the World for Women.â CNN, Cable News Network, 7 June 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/06/06/women.bicycle/index.html OâConnor, Brion. âHonoring Major Taylor, Americaâs First Black World Champion.â SI.com, Sports Illustrated, 25 Feb. 2015,…
…ur,â leads a workshop on solo show writing and writes for TheDisplacedNation.com. Fred Sasaki âHow to Hafu it All: Three Easy Steps to 100%â Fred Sasaki is art director for Poetry magazine, a gallery curator for the Poetry Foundation, founding organizer of the Printers Ball, and co-founder of Homeroom Chicagoâs â101âł lecture series. With his son and late father he is the author of the zine series, FRED SASAKIâS & FRED SASAKIâS FOUR PAGER…