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Mixed Feelings on “Self Portrait in Black and White” by Thomas Chatterton Williams “Self Portrait in Black and White” by “biracial” author Thomas Chatterton Williams is a memoir that makes the case for doing away with the racial categorization of human...
by ClareXanthos
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 10:54 PM PST
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Last year, minority advocates representing multiple backgrounds called for people to partake in the 2020 census. Many of them feared that if undercounted, minorities would lose or miss out on funding.
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Nov 03, 2021 at 06:33 AM PDT
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Despite�increased awareness of the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans, targeted attacks against members of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community continue to surge. Each month,
by Aysha Qamar
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on Sun Oct 03, 2021 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Life has changed for most everyone amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but students have faced unique and sudden shifts. For high schoolers who are graduating into a world that is in some ways both new and transitional, the experience can feel...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jun 07, 2021 at 09:18 AM PDT
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NY Times released a new story this morning about vaccine attitudes. It is very true that vaccine attitudes differ among both political groups and racial groups. . The two groups seem to have different motivations. For Republicans, the attitude is...
by Dem
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on Mon May 24, 2021 at 06:40 AM PDT
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I was lucky enough to get a subscription to one of those genetic websites due to suffering from Crohn’s, so I was able to find out my Ethnicity. No great shock, it turns out I am 100 percent� ...
by CameronProf
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on Sun Mar 28, 2021 at 11:29 AM PDT
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I find race and ethnicity curious constructions. Two quick stories from just this past week. Gabby and I were out walking on the local trail system. We were chatting away when this white guy comes up from behind us and starts yelling at us about...
by Nonlinear
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on Fri Jun 19, 2020 at 10:16 PM PDT
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We used to have sort of a mystery in my family. For some reason, when asked about our ethnicity my older sister and I would say “Jewish.” My two younger brothers would say “German.” My brothers would express confusion when my sister and I said Jewish....
by elsaf
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on Fri Nov 08, 2019 at 05:34 PM PST
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Q: What’s your ethnicity?A: What does it matter? We all came out of Africa.Hey, I never said it would be easy . . . 50 comments
on Wed Jul 17, 2019 at 04:18 AM PDT
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There is a brilliant diary up by Denise Oliver Velez. www.dailykos.com/…
It is a fascinating diary on reparations. However something I have noticed in these diaries is that there seems to be this curious fascination with who is considered...
by sideboth
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on Sun May 19, 2019 at 12:45 PM PDT
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I was inspired to compose this diary by a wide array of observations shared across the internet over the last week sharing the conventional wisdom that Bernie Sanders’ strongest base of supporters is comprised mainly of white males. Perhaps this...
by Arcparser
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on Thu Feb 21, 2019 at 09:39 AM PST
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I was bored so I looked up information to see what percentage of Mericans know someone who is gay or transgender.
The numbers come from a Pew Research Center survey done in 2016.
The research broke down the population demographically and...
by BFSkinner
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on Wed Aug 29, 2018 at 11:17 AM PDT
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Seeking to understand reentry following incarceration, Harvard University’s Bruce Western, a professor of sociology, observed 122 people—men and women who were caucasian, African American and Latinx—in the year after they were released. What he found...
by RebeccaPilarBuckwalterPoza
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on Tue May 15, 2018 at 03:56 PM PDT
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After reading 'The Simpsons' engenders a firestorm of criticism after dismissing complaints over stereotypes, I was going to respond in the comments. However, my observation started to get long enough that I thought it would be better served as a...
by hmt3
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on Tue Apr 17, 2018 at 11:26 AM PDT
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One way of viewing humor is it's rooted in pain. In fact, an old saying goes: "Comedy is tragedy plus time." It's a way for us silly humans to laugh at things which in every other context are treated as serious business, but become absurd to the point...
by Doctor RJ
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on Mon Apr 16, 2018 at 07:35 PM PDT
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Target to pay $3.7 million to settle suit alleging employment discrimination against blacks, Latinos Target has agreed to reform its employment screening practices as part of a settlement resolving Equal Employment Opportunity Office complaints dating to 2006 and a potential class action suit. The agreement’s still subject to judicial approval.
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by RebeccaPilarBuckwalterPoza
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on Fri Apr 06, 2018 at 10:27 AM PDT
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I can't believe that I am asking this question.
In short, the answer is very unlikely.
As the country has become more racially and ethnically diverse, so has the U.S. military
. Racial and ethnic minority groups made up 40% of Defense...
by interguru
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on Tue Dec 12, 2017 at 10:50 AM PST
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As kids, many of us learned the old nursery rhyme “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” But this is far from the truth. Words have powerful meaning—both the ones we are called and the ones we identify ourselves with. For...
by Kelly Macias
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on Tue Aug 01, 2017 at 12:10 PM PDT
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“Where are you really from?” is a question you are likely to hear if you are not (perceived as) white. This is a person’s terrible way of trying to figure out what, rather than who, someone is. It is usually reserved for people of color—often those...
by Kelly Macias
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on Tue Jun 20, 2017 at 03:43 PM PDT
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Tonight, the 2017 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis starts with a perennial favorite in opera-land, Madama Butterfly , or Madame Butterfly , as sung in English translation. (For the record, all ...
by chingchongchinaman
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on Sat May 20, 2017 at 07:20 PM PDT
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