It’s slightly ironic that Gillis considers himself a risk-taking boundary-pusher when the comedy in these podcast episodes was, among other things, unoriginal. He employed shopworn tropes, racist and homophobic language, age-old myths about Chinese food, and ignorant attitudes about Chinatown and Asian Americans. Most Asian or Asian American people — likely including Gillis’s future co-worker…
Category: Racism
Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring
While colleges and universities have been lauded for increasing student diversity, these same institutions have failed to achieve any comparable diversity among their faculty. In 2017, of the nation’s full-time, tenure-track and tenured faculty, only 3 percent each were Black men, Black women, Hispanic men, and Hispanic women. Only 6 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander men,…
FREE Online Event: Who Gets To Be An American?
Being an American doesn’t always mean being treated like one when it comes to the rights and liberties that every citizen is supposed to have, and this is especially the case when it comes to people of color. Register for this FREE event:https://bit.ly/3xdELSo Since 9/11, Muslim communities have been unjustly viewed as inherently suspicious and…
Young People’s Pavilion: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations….
Dr. Keith Anderson Launches The Anti-Racism Center “The ARC”
What are 10 beliefs of an anti-racist? Answers to this question and many, many more are found on a new educational website. The purpose for ‘The ARC’ site, a project of Dr. Keith L. Anderson, is to help people learn how to become change agents in the fight against racism. To fight racism one must…
Anti-Defamation League Calls For Tucker Carlson’s Firing Over White Supremacist Rant
The Anti-Defamation League demanded Friday that right-wing Fox News personality Tucker Carlson be fired after he launched a white supremacist conspiracy attack on immigrants, according to Huffington Post. Carlson ranted on “Fox News Primetime” on Thursday that Democrats are trying to “replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World.” The complaint clearly…
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing
With the ravages of Covid-19, the idea that students should be forced to take any sort of standardized test this year is incomprehensible. The priority right now should be on strengthening instruction and support for students and families in communities most traumatized by the impact of the coronavirus, according to an article in NEA magazine by John Rosales…
Lawmakers Respond to Video Showing Sacramento Teacher Making Racist Slant-Eye Gestures
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A controversial video showing a North Sacramento teacher pulling her eyes back in a gesture considered offensive to Asian people is making the rounds on social media. This comes following a string of reported hate incidents against people of Asian descent, stoking fear and anxiety. “For many of us who are Asian,…
How Educators Who Consider Themselves ‘White Allies’ Can Be Dangerous When It Comes To Developing Anti-Racist Classrooms
“I am a white ally,” the 30 something-year-old white teacher declared emphatically in the diversity and inclusion professional development session. She snapped her fingers to co-sign a colleague’s comments about Black Lives Matter, changed her Facebook profile picture to commemorate Breonna Taylor, and talked at length about brown and Black lives, writes Dr. Sana Shaikh on…
Boise State’s Keith Anderson authors book on how to become anti-racist
Keith Anderson, an educational specialist in the Center for Multicultural and Educational Opportunities, has authored the book From Racist to Non-Racist to Anti-Racist: Becoming Part of the Solution. “This book was written for people who understand that to deal with racism, we need to unite and fight,” Anderson said. “Uniting allows people to use their…
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