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What's New And Not New About Jason Collins Coming Out - 0 views

www.npr.org/...about-jason-collins-coming-out Mass communication Stereotypes Gay Race
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    Jason Collins, a veteran NBA center, has become the first male professional athlete in the four major American sports leagues to come out as gay. Collins wrote a first-person account posted Monday on Sports Illustrated's website. (from Code Switch, and NPR blog)
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Will Spanish Thrive Or Decline In The U.S.? - 1 views

www.npr.org/...will-spanish-thrive-in-the-u-s Language Language Death Spanish Bilingualism
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    from Code Switch, an NPR blog
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For Some Young Latinos: Donkey Jaws And Latino Roots - 0 views

www.npr.org/...s-donkey-jaws-and-latino-roots Language Culture Identity Biculturalism
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    The process of integrating into mainstream America is a complex one if you are an immigrant. Often, people lose touch with their country of origin. A report about retro-acculturation or cultural straddling.
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How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space - 0 views

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    from Code Switch, an NPR blog
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Crunching The Numbers On Blacks' Views On Gays - 0 views

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    from Code Switch, an NPR blog
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A Code-Switching Tour Of L.A.'s Chinatown - 0 views

www.npr.org/...tching-tour-of-l-a-s-chinatown Language Culture Code-switching Bilingualism
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    Calvin Ho, a graduate student at UCLA who studies immigrant communities, visualizes code-switching.
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Our Hunger for the Obscene Details - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...-coverage-obscene-details.html Mass communication News Sensationalism Journalism
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    Sasha Weiss on the Cleveland Victims and Our Hunger for the Obscene Details: "I can't help asking, for whom, and for what purpose, were these details publicized? Why do I need to know what I now know?" (from New Yorker)
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Do They Really Tawk Like That? Not Now - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...ly-tawk-like-that-not-now.html Language Identity Accents
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    A new documentary examines the way that different immigrant groups adapted to speaking in New York City (NYT article)
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If these knishes could talk - 1 views

newyorkaccentfilm.com Language Identity Accents
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    A film about the New York accent will have its premiere on 16 May 2013. Some trailers and excerpts.
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If these knishes could talk - first 10 minutes - 1 views

vimeo.com/66001684 Language Identity Accents
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    First ten minutes of a film about the New York accent
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The complicated Chinese family tree - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Identity Culture Chinese
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You Tawkin' to New Yawk? Tracing the City's Mosaic of Accents - 1 views

online.wsj.com/...3918104576502373235185388.html Language Identity Accents New York Part 1
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    Wall Street Journal article about New York accents
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Cambodian Son - 1 views

www.indiegogo.com/...cambodian-son Language Identity Poetry Kosal Khiev Documentary Part 1
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    crowd-sourcing appeal to finance documentary being made about Kosal Khiev
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Verses in Exile: Why I Write | PBS Online Film Festival 2013 - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Poetry Spoken Word Kosal Khiev Identity
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    Watch "Verses in Exile: Why I Write," a short film created by a Khmer-exiled American, Kosal Khiev, who tells pieces of his life story through the art of spoken word poetry.
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My Asian Americana - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Culture Identity Cambodia Asian-American
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    Exiles and ex-pats unite as a community to present images of an Americana they left behind. One half live outside the US by choice while the other half has been forcibly returned. All are Americans. Each raised with the memories, mannerisms, and a distinct cultural identity of growing up Asian in America.
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Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? A forum on likeability - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...rt-a-forum-on-likeability.html Literature Character Audience
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    New Yorker's Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the question of likeability has been posed about their characters
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