This post is broken into two parts for the sake of length: Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 – In support…
My question is, how can we get more students to go to college?
What do we as a culture (U.S. culture) need to provide to our children so they can attend college?
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“In their newly released book, The Triple Package, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld propose that some groups are naturally better than the others due to certain cultural traits they possess. I was on HuffPost Live to discuss the book, and to debunk its central notions, which you can watch here:”
Prerna Lal’s article covers:
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**Disclaimer: In this article I focus on the fetishization of Asian females. I acknowledge that there are prevalent fetishes of other races and they are just as problematic. I acknowledge that I c…
I love this article and I love it’s title.
Plus it’s an important topic for supporters of racial justice.
It covers:
“There are plenty of things to celebrate about being American, but being possessed by a blind mania for working yourself into the ground, buying more stuff and mocking people in other countries just isn’t one of them.”
Another reason I’m not gonna buy any product by Ford (the owners of Cadillac).
Ford is the company that intentionally bought lower priced tires from Firestone that they knew were not rated to support the weight of the Ford Explorer. Then, tires started failing, causing rollovers and over 200 deaths.
Now this Cadillac commercial is trying to sell us on how great the U.S. is by bashing other countries.
One line says “We’re the only ones going back up there”, referring to going into space. They can’t even get their bashing correct.
Citizens of 38 countries have flown in space, and China and Russia have current space programs.
See on www.huffingtonpost.com
The GOP’s growing chart may need an update. Perhaps a new bar at the bottom redefining rape as “pursuit of sexual freedom”?
See on www.dailykos.com
“In this full interview, Laura interviews Joo-Hyun Kang, Director of Communities United for Police Reform about an unprecedented campaign to end discriminatory policing practices in New York City.”
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“Historian Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority just might be the best examination of the roots of the model minority stereotype in print.
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No doubt the enthusiasm among many Asian Americans to accept model minority stereotyping was a reflection of the fact that the menu of choices where stereotypes were concerned appeared to be restricted to either “model minority” or “yellow peril.” And the stakes were high. The “yellow peril” stereotype had been used to justify wars in Korea and Vietnam, the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, anti-communist persecution of Chinese Americans under the McCarran Act, and no small amount of racial exclusion and terrorism.”
“As long as U.S immigration policy has a preference for the highly educated, the U.S. will continue to bring in ‘model minorities’.
The term ‘model minority’ is based on a bias for educated people.
Latinos are also ‘model minorities’ in that they are compliant workers who harvest the crops and work in the slaughter houses, but they are not ‘sold’ by the media in those terms because on average they are not the highly educated workforce.”
See on www.racefiles.com
Stereotypes persist.
I think there are a couple videos on the “What would you do” show along these lines.
One where a white guy and then a black guy are trying to break a bicycle lock,
Another were some white guys then some black guys are vandalizing a car.
See on www.businessinsider.com
“When I had that debate with the aldermen about the proposed sagging pants ban in St. Louis, I was on the phone with my ward’s representative. One of my arguments was that this law would be enforced along racial lines. I pointed to the fact that St. Louis arrests black people at 18 times the rate of white people for marijuana offenses despite similar rates of usage. He quickly countered that he knows white people who smoke marijuana, but they do it in the privacy of their own homes where no one can see them. “They’re not out on their front porch doing it!” he cried.
Obviously, he’s making some pretty sweeping generalizations about who uses marijuana how, but let’s go ahead and take him at his word for the sake of argument. White people smoke weed behind closed doors; black people do it on their front porches where they can be seen. The implication is that the white choice is the standard (“Sure, everyone does it, but these people do it the right way.”) To then say that a deviation from that choice is substandard (and thus deserving of an arrest) ignores the inequality present in what gets read as a “criminal” act.”
See on www.balancingjane.com
“This video tells the story of a black teenager in Florida who was killed by a white man after an argument over loud music. The slain youth’s father shares his loss.”
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