Race Racism in Intl Perspective

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

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:20:01 +0000

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

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This excellent short video does a good job of conveying the racism that the Tea Party movement shamelessly spouts.

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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.

Michele Elam: 2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:36:33 +0000

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

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

James Elford — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:18:31 +0000

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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

Scratch white America and beneath it is black - Times Online

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:55:17 +0000

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Scratch white America and beneath it is black - Times Online

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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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Scratch white America and beneath it is black

Australia racism | Australia culture

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:26:36 +0000

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Australia racism | Australia culture

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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 by Blacks, whom he suspected to be hostile and from whom he feared an attack, parleyed with them from his house-door. He told them it was Christmas-time - a time at which all men, black or white, feasted; that there were flour, sugar-plums, good things in plenty in the store, and that he would make for them such a pudding as they had never dreamed of - a great pudding of which all might eat and be filled. The Blacks listened and were lost. The pudding was made and distributed. Next morning there was howling in the camp, for it had been sweetened with sugar and arsenic!'" Twain goes on (in his words, not Praed's): "The white man's spirit was right, but his method was wrong. His spirit was the spirit which the civilized white has always exhibited toward the savage, but the use of poison was a departure from custom...n more than one country we have hunted the savage and his little children and their mother with dogs and guns through the woods and swamps for an afternoon's sport, and filled the region with happy laughter over their sprawling and stumbling flight, and their wild supplications for mercy; but this method we do not mind, because custom has inured us to it; yet a quick death by poison is loving-kindness to it. In many countries we have taken the savage's land from him, and made him our slave, and lashed him every day, and broken his pride, and made death his only friend, and overworked him till he dropped in his tracks; and this we do not care for, because custom has inured us to it; yet a quick death by poison is loving-kindness to it."

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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.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:02:21 +0000

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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 about why white is so often the default color for heroes and heroines in films for children.

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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?

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

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:50:52 +0000

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

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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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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.

American Studies Journals

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:04:53 +0000

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American Studies Journals

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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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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.

Course Guide

hans2504 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:36:56 +0000

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Course Guide

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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.

Course Guide

leslie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:45:27 +0000

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Course Guide

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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.

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

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:20:01 +0000

Michele Elam: 2010 Census: Think Twice, Check Once

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:36:33 +0000

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

James Elford — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:18:31 +0000

Scratch white America and beneath it is black - Times Online

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:55:17 +0000

Australia racism | Australia culture

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:26:36 +0000

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:02:21 +0000

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

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:50:52 +0000

American Studies Journals

Shelley Fisher Fishkin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:04:53 +0000

Course Guide

hans2504 — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:36:56 +0000

Course Guide

leslie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:45:27 +0000