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Jenni Young

Meet "The Smalls", A Suburban Family That Only Communicates Using Notorious B.I.G. Lyri... - 0 views

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    The Smalls are a seemingly run-of-the-mill Caucasian family from a nondescript suburb. The only weird thing is that the parents and their daughter communicate via Notorious B.I.G. lyrics
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    The Smalls are a seemingly run-of-the-mill Caucasian family from a nondescript suburb. The only weird thing is that the parents and their daughter communicate via Notorious B.I.G. lyrics
Jenni Young

Honey Maid: This is Wholesome :30 TV Commercial | Official - YouTube - 0 views

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    Honey Maid: This is Wholesome :30 TV Commercial features real families, not actors, and causes controversy. A quick google search will find many articles and opinion pieces in response to the commercial and the negative reaction.
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    Honey Maid: This is Wholesome :30 TV Commercial features real families, not actors, and causes controversy.
Jenni Young

Cast-offs and leftovers: the mixed benefits of working for a white family - 0 views

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    Olivia Olivia recalls how her mother's job as a domestic worker for rich white families robbed her of her mother's affections (Salon.com)
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Marvel Editor Sana Amanat Does TEDxTeen Talk About The Positive Power Of Storytelling -... - 0 views

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    On March 1st 2014, Marvel Comics editor Sana Amanat participated in the 5th TEDxTeen conference hosted by the We Are Family Foundation. Amanat, the editor on Ms. Marvel, Elektra, New Warriors and Captain Marvel, did a talk entitled Myths, Misfits & Masks.
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    On March 1st 2014, Marvel Comics editor Sana Amanat participated in the 5th TEDxTeen conference hosted by the We Are Family Foundation. Amanat, the editor on Ms. Marvel, Elektra, New Warriors and Captain Marvel, did a talk entitled Myths, Misfits & Masks.
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Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word - 0 views

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    Several campaigns are seeking to help the young children of poor and immigrant families by urging parents to spend more time talking to them (NY Times)
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    Several campaigns are seeking to help the young children of poor and immigrant families by urging parents to spend more time talking to them (NY Times)
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The Joneses Trailer - YouTube - 0 views

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    Trailer for film about a family, the Joneses, who are living advertisements.
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    Trailer for film about a family, the Joneses, who are living advertisements.
Jenni Young

A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

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    Robert Rodriguez's memoir, "The Hunger of Memory" (1982) is an account of his painful separation from the Spanish-speaking world of his family in his journey to becoming a fully assimilated American.
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Aria: A memoir of a bilingual childhood by Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

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    autobiographical essay about growing up in a Spanish-speaking family in California.
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How to listen so they'll talk and talk so they'll listen - 1 views

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    Advice for single women and men from "a licensed marriage and family therapist and dating coach". From itsyourtechnique.com
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That Cute Cheerios Ad With The Interracial Family Is Back - 0 views

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    The first TV spot featured an adorable, curly-haired moppet named Gracie who had a black father and a white mother. The ad for Cheerios prompted a storm of protest and counter-protest last summer. Now, the cereal-maker is back with a sequel (NPR Code Switch)
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Speaking it in the family - 0 views

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    Familects - home dialects in which words are given private meanings - reveal that everyone has a creative and playful linguistic story (Guardian)
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The Fourth of July by Audre Lorde - 0 views

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    Memoir by poet Audre Lorde, born in New York to Caribbean immigrant parents. Lorde writes about how racism tainted a family trip to Washington.
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It Takes A Classroom To Learn The Family Language - 0 views

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    Many first- and second-generation Americans are turning to classrooms to relearn their heritage languages (NPR)
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Honey Maid's Wholesome Families and the Business of Love : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    For a long time, anti-gay prejudice made a certain amount of business sense.
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    For a long time, anti-gay prejudice made a certain amount of business sense.
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Lupita in the Mirror : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Judith Thurman on the significance of Lupita Nyong'o's People magazine cover: "Women with strong African features and jet-black skin are, even today, with a black family in the White House, scarce in the pages of mainstream fashion magazines."
Jenni Young

The complicated Chinese family tree - 1 views

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Cheerios Exec On Ad Featuring Mixed Race Couple: 'We Were Reflecting An American Family' - 0 views

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    Racist reaction to commercial featuring mixed-race couple
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Words that last - 0 views

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    A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 "ultraconserved words" that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years (Washington Post)
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue - 0 views

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    Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim
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European and Asian languages traced back to single mother tongue - 0 views

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    Eurasiatic languages from Portugal to Siberia form 'superfamily' with root in southern Europe 15,000 years ago, scientists claim
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