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Jenni Young

A Roshanda by any other name. - 0 views

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    How do babies with super-black names fare?
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    How do babies with super-black names fare?
Jenni Young

The Name Game: The Anglicizing of Asian Students - 1 views

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    Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?
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    Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?
Jenni Young

Top 20 'Whitest' and 'Blackest' Names - ABC News - 1 views

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    Top 20 'Whitest' and 'Blackest' Names
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    Top 20 'Whitest' and 'Blackest' Names
Jenni Young

Don't Hire People With "Black Sounding Names" --The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show - You... - 1 views

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    Jesse Lee Peterson is founder of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, an American religious nonprofit organization dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans.
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    Jesse Lee Peterson is founder of The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, an American religious nonprofit organization dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans.
Jenni Young

Killing Us Softly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    Entry on Jean Kilbourne's documentary on how women are portrayed in advertising and the effect of this portrayal. Has links to other pages on Advertising and Gender.
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    Entry on Jean Kilbourne's documentary on how women are portrayed in advertising and the effect of this portrayal.
Jenni Young

Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu - 0 views

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    Eric Liu is an Asian American: "I never asked to be white. I am not literally white. That is, I do not have white skin or white ancestors. I have yellow skin and yellow ancestors, hundreds of generations of them. But like so many other Asian Americans of the second generation, I find myself now the bearer of a strange new status: white, by acclamation."
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    Eric Liu is an Asian American: "I never asked to be white. I am not literally white. That is, I do not have white skin or white ancestors. I have yellow skin and yellow ancestors, hundreds of generations of them. But like so many other Asian Americans of the second generation, I find myself now the bearer of a strange new status: white, by acclamation."
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    Eric Liu is an Asian American: "I never asked to be white. I am not literally white. That is, I do not have white skin or white ancestors. I have yellow skin and yellow ancestors, hundreds of generations of them. But like so many other Asian Americans of the second generation, I find myself now the bearer of a strange new status: white, by acclamation."
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    Eric Liu's essay examines the meaning of assimilation, and what it means to be a "banana", an Asian American who identifies as white.
Jenni Young

Life as an Alien by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah - 0 views

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    Meri Nana-Ama Danquah left Ghana at the age of 6 to live in the US. In this essay she examines what it is like to grow up bicultural.
Jenni Young

Michael Brown: Yet another reminder that police see even unarmed black people as thugs ... - 1 views

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    The tragedy of our discriminatory criminal justice system, and the stereotyping of black men as thugs.
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    The tragedy of our discriminatory criminal justice system, and the stereotyping of black men as thugs.
Jenni Young

'The Talk,' a poem inspired by Ferguson, Mo. - The Washington Post - 3 views

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    A poem inspired by the events in a Missouri town that followed the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
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    A poem inspired by the events in a Missouri town that followed the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Jenni Young

Will Ferguson be a moment or a movement? - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    What it will take for the events in Ferguson to bring lasting change
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    What it will take for the events in Ferguson to bring lasting change
Jenni Young

How the rest of the world sees Ferguson - The Washington Post - 2 views

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    Foreign coverage of America's problem reveals a lot.
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    Foreign coverage of America's problem reveals a lot.
Jenni Young

View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention - 4 views

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    In a situation hostile to traditional reporting, the crowdsourced, phone-enabled network of information that Twitter provides has proved invaluable.
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    In a situation hostile to traditional reporting, the crowdsourced, phone-enabled network of information that Twitter provides has proved invaluable.
Jenni Young

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (HBO) - YouTube - 0 views

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    John Oliver looks at the protests in Ferguson.
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    John Oliver looks at the protests in Ferguson.
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