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In the years leading up to World War II, racial segregation and discrimination were constant factors in the daily lives of many in the United States. This Thursday, April 21, we will explore the path towards equal rights from before and after World War II with special guests. Join wherever you are via #livestream to watch the Fighting for the Right to Fight Symposium. 
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Reports of bombings tend to get huge numbers of mentions on social media, but that doesn't always mean a similar level of news coverage.
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The short answer is obviously "Yes." Yet, this question brings up other questions about cultural empathy and how 'connected' we might feel to people of other places than our own global neighborhood. This political cartoon-ish map has more truth in it than we might like to admit; it is subtitled 'How terrible it is the the Western world when a tragedy happens in...?'
Questions to Ponder: Does the 'where' influence if we perceive the event as a true tragedy or not (or maybe just the magnitude or importance of the tradegy)? How come? What does this say about us as inidividuals, society, and the media? How can we teach our students in a way to foster more cultural empathy?
Tags: social media, place, culture, political, terrorism, media.
jorden harris's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 9:52 AM
to me it is mind boggling how we can pay more attention to countries with national threats than others especially with ISIS being so prominent which is a war that is going to take help from not only the united states but the other affected countries - J.H 
Logan scully's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 10:11 AM
It somewhat bothers me how that terrorist attacks outside of Europe and North America is pretty much just ignored by the social media while people are sitting in the hospital for crimes in which terrorists and other religious radicalists have done to their area and country.-L.S.
Brealyn Holley's curator insight,
April 7, 2016 10:20 AM
For the question "Do terror attacks in the Western world get more attention than others?" In my opinion the answer would be yes because a lot of the terror attacks in the Western world are bigger and are expected more than terror attacks near us. ~BH
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I'm fucking furious. This is what happens when a campaign is fueled by bigotry. Police looked on as she's shoved. pic.twitter.com/yZwkJe17PS
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
In case you really didn't believe the polls, stats, & facts about the racist Trump campaign...
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For 400 years, Black people were living in a culture where their pain, their culture, and their art were appropriated and sanitized for white consumption, or, more often, shut out of the narrative entirely, replaced by racist caricatures or rendered invisible. For 400 years, the stories of Black people on this continent were untold, belittled, or made the tools of white narrative and white profit.
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Black Live Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors coined the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. (photo via laweekly.com) Via Community Village Sites
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Among the more than 160,000 men who stormed the beaches of France on June, 6, 1944, there was 1 combat battalion of African Americans. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Gillian Laub’s potent images of racially segregated proms brought Montgomery County’s ‘dark secret’ into the open. Southern Rites, her new HBO documentary, details the town’s triumphs and tragedies in confronting its difficult history
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distorted-clarity:
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I was watching Morning Joe and they were freaking out that eBay (and perhaps others) were selling swastikas while removing confederate flags. They said such an announcement to remove the flags was hypocritical and a pandering publicity move. *sigh* Let me educate you:
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In what imaginary Texas would Richard Linklater's characters not be surrounded by people of Mexican descent?
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Are baseball umpires racist? Are ministers motivated by money? Christopher Parsons teases important economic lessons from unlikely sources.
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A symposium at Harvard Business School delved into intersectionality—the seemingly obvious yet complex idea that gender interacts with other axes of inequality such as race, age, class, and ethnicity.
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Razeen Nasher's curator insight,
January 11, 2015 5:10 PM
CNN, bastion of hard-hitting journalism and obnoxious holograms, is at it again, with a question that surely presses at the forefront of everyone’s mind, can the KKK rebrand?
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There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near you? Here's an interactive map. RELATED STORIES...
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
January 3, 2015 3:11 AM
Awareness of one's opponents cannot be over-estimated as a good preparation for the defense of one's beliefs.
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With a long-awaited executive order, President Barack Obama is set to announce sweeping changes in how the U.S. government treats millions of immigrants who are in the country without authorization. Now it's time for all Americans to change how they talk about them.
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(Brennan Linsley/AP Photo) WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton warned Saturday night that despite great gains for the gay and transgender community, the lines of gender and race in politics could still cast a shadow in the years ahead. Via bobbygw
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Within sociology there’s a gap between researchers who critically study race and those who study the Internet.
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Today begins a weekly series of posts about white women and white feminism. There is something troubling to me in the pattern of white women’s behavior and white feminism’s response to inequality that I want …
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Great reading; and note at the bottom to find the next in the series. Click-click-click.
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POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME
Via Community Village Sites
8B SamuelL's curator insight,
March 9, 2017 12:31 PM
This article talks about a syndrome called the P.T.S.S., or Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. The P.T.S.S. is a syndrome that occurs to the survivors of slavery. The harsh experiences the slavery survivors went through lead to to the M.A.P., which meant Multi-generational trauma together with continued oppression, absence of opportunity to heal or access the benefits available in the society, which leads to Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. A person that suffers with the Post Traumatic Syndrome does some of these following actions. Depression, loss of hope, gets angry and violent easily, and internalized racism.
This article helps me understand Africa because I can see what the survivors of slavery go through even after they were freed. This also helps me understand what the survivors of slavery are feeling after freedom. I think that this article is very important because of these following reasons. One, it gives us motivation to help them cure this syndrome. Two, it helps to to know again that slavery is a horrible thing to do and experience. I think that we all should at least have a look at this and rethink about African slavery survivor’s lives.
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There is one similarity between the Israel/Gaza crisis and the U.S. unaccompanied child immigrant crisis: National borders enforcing social inequality. When unequal populations are separated, the disparity creates social pressure at the border. The stronger the pressure, the greater the military force needed to maintain the separation.
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Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Professor of English and African American Studies at Emory University and author of The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
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Pamphlets written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett on the subject of lynching comprise a substantial body of innovative writing, reporting, and analysis in U.S. intellectual history. In the 1890s especially, nascent professional social scientists, media opinion shapers, and leaders in the black community acknowledged and relied on her work.1 Indeed, Ida B. Wells-Barnett's foundational insights into the complex social dynamics behind the lynching for rape scenario have stood the test of time in the more than one hundred years since she penned them; yet her status and recognition as a social critic in the ensuing years has been embattled, to say the least.2 At her death in 1931, for example, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) journal, The Crisis, that her work had been "easily forgotten" and "taken to greater success" by others.3 Wells-Barnett herself complained in a diary of the neglect of "my anti-lynching contribution" in early black history textbooks penned by the influential scholar Carter G. Woodson.4 This essay suggests that rather than comprising a "forgotten" body work, Ida B. Wells-Barnett's pamphlet writings were appropriated and transformed by peers and colleagues in social reform. In turn, they marginalized her as author and leader.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
In honor of Ida's birthday. For books by & about Ida B. Wells-Barnett, go here.
Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight,
July 16, 2014 9:59 PM
In honor of Ida's birthday. For books by & about Ida B. Wells-Barnett, go here. |
Curated by Deanna Dahlsad
An opinionated woman obsessed with objects, entertained by ephemera, intrigued by researching, fascinated by culture & addicted to writing. The wind says my name; doesn't put an @ in front of it, so maybe you don't notice. http://www.kitsch-slapped.com
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A Marketing Mix
Adventures in advertising and marketing - the contemporary, the historical, and the hysterical. http://deanna.dahlsad.com/
Antiques & Vintage Collectibles
Collecting old things; heirlooms and new to you things! Companion to http://www.inherited-values.com/
Colorful Prism Of Racism
Racism past and present. Companion to http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/category/colorful-prism-of-racism/
Consumption Junction
Consumerism meets marketing; who & what manipulates the free market of goods & services. See also: http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/category/ze-big-mouth-promotions-stuff/
Crimes Against Humanity
From lone gunmen on hills to mass movements. Depressing as hell, really.
Cultural History
The roots of culture; history and pre-history.
Dare To Be A Feminist
For Art's Sake-1
Art, crafts, and the people who make them. To inspire and purchase. Companion to http://www.ululating-undulating-ungulate.com/
Herstory
History as this woman sees it. The serious, the kitsch, the opinionated. Companion to http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/
In The Name Of God
Mainly acts done in the name of religion, but also discussions of atheism, faith, & spirituality.
Kinsanity
Let's just say I have reasons to learn more about mental health, special needs children, psychology, and the like.
Kitsch
Mostly vintage and retro "badness" but you can decide how delicious it is. http://www.kitschy-kitschy-coo.com/blog/
Nerdy Needs
The stuff of nerdy, geeky, dreams.
Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic
The meaning behind the math of the bottom line in publishing and the media. For writers, publishers, and bloggers (which are a combination of the two).
Sex Positive
Sexuality as a human right.
Vintage Living Today For A Future Tomorrow
It's as easy to romanticize the past as it is to demonize it; instead, let's learn from it. More than living simply, more than living 'green', thrifty grandmas knew the importance of the 'economics' in Home Economics. The history of home ec, lessons in thrift, practical tips and ideas from the past focused on sustainability for families and out planet. Companion to http://www.thingsyourgrandmotherknew.com/
Visiting The Past
Travel based on grande ideas, locations, and persons of the past.
Walking On Sunshine
Stuff that makes me smile.
You Call It Obsession & Obscure; I Call It Research & Important
Links to (many of) my columns and articles.
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