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Race Racism in Intl Perspective

Explore what international responses to the U.S. election reveal about attitudes towards race and racism around the world

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Page: Videos Posted by Cuéntame: 'Teabaggers' Part 1 - Racism | Facebook

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Teabaggers' Part 1 - Racism by Cuéntame 2:20 Teabaggers exposed! Hundreds of people gathered to hear Tom Tancredo spread hate through his speech at the Tea Party convention. The tea party has taken on a racist agenda.

This excellent short video does a good job of conveying the racism that the Tea Party movement shamelessly spouts.
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin (156)
Author of: The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work

Tue Mar 09 22:20:01 +0000 2010

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Page: Michele Elam: 2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once

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what Mark Twain called the "legal fiction of race."

Mark Twain wrote that the light-skinned child of a light-skinned slave was "by a fiction of law and custom a negro" (Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapter 2). He did not, to the best of my knowledge, use the phrase "legal fiction of race" although that idea informed his writing.
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin (156)
Author of: The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work

Tue Mar 09 00:36:33 +0000 2010

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Page: Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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shouldn't we be more concerned, rather than less, about how movies portray race or gender when the people consuming the product are children?

Isn't it a bit sad though that it really matters that she's black? The fact that we're having these discussions at all is a really bad sign.
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James Elford (24)
Fri Jan 29 10:18:31 +0000 2010

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Page: Scratch white America and beneath it is black - Times Online

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Scratch white America and beneath it is black

The inimitable Robert Farris Thompson put it like this: "To be white in America is to be very black. If you don't know how black you are, you don't know how American you are."

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Shelley Fisher Fishkin (156)
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Sat Oct 24 22:55:17 +0000 2009

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Australia has always had a blind-spot on issues of race. Australia’s indigenous population has a history of being grossly maltreated.

Mark Twain's FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR (1897) is filled with all-too-vivid examples of this. See Chapter 22, for example. He writes that "the Blacks" [referring to the indigenous population] "were regarded as little above the level of brutes, and in some cases were destroyed like vermin." He quotes an account from Mrs. Campbell Praed: "A squatter, whose station was surrounded b...
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin (156)
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Thu Oct 22 04:26:36 +0000 2009

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shouldn't we be more concerned, rather than less, about how movies portray race or gender when the people consuming the product are children?

As a feminist whose distaste for Disney princesses as a class is a matter of public record, I was skeptical that I'd find anything good about Disney's coming up with yet another princess. The jury is still out on 'The Princess and the Frog' (the picture won't be out until December) but I think the discussions and debates the film is sparking are salutary--particularly if they get people thinking ab...
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Tue Jun 09 01:02:21 +0000 2009

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Page: Op-Ed Columnist - Treasures Lost to Time - NYTimes.com

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The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., opened its doors to the greatest players of the old Negro leagues. What’s wrong with basketball? With very, very few exceptions, those doors at the Basketball Hall of Fame have remained closed.

What would it take--besides Bob Herbert's column and the award-winning documentary, "Black Magic," to get the Basketball Hall of Fame to change? Emails? More columns? Petitions? They are clearly out of step with the times. Rewriting the history of basketball to take into account the amazing players left out of it because of racism is long overdue.
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin (156)
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Sat May 16 20:50:52 +0000 2009

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Page: American Studies Journals

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This website provides scholars with a one-stop shop for the latest research published in American studies journals throughout the world. Organized by the International Initiative of the American Studies Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this site is the outcome of a collaboration between numerous journal editors around the world.

It's extraordinary to be able to browse in the 46 journals in 22 countries represented on this site. Hats off to Pin-chia Feng and her colleagues for keeping it up and running and current!
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Sun Apr 05 20:04:53 +0000 2009

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If there isn't enough reading for you, I'm sure that professor Penn will recommend more, but I'm fairly sure that this course will not leave you disappointed in terms of academic vigor.
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hans2504 (4) Thu Apr 02 02:36:56 +0000 2009

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I'm not sure you can judge the state of our university educational system on one class's syllabus. Also, if a lecturer is really good and the reality is that many students are deterred by large reading loads, then maybe his approach is appropriate. For a course like this one about racism, maybe enticing as many students as possible and exposing them to key issues is a noble goal after all.
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leslie (76) Thu Apr 02 01:45:27 +0000 2009

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