while I don’t believe our roots necessarily define us, I do believe there are racially inflected assumptions wired into our neural circuitry that we use to sort through the sea of faces we confront
Help grow our Global Poem for Change throughout (April) Poetry Month - 0 views
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"Poetry Month has begun! Celebrate by adding your voice to our poem, helping it soar around the world... The first version of our poem is a single line by wonderful writer Naomi Shihab Nye, visit litworld.org/poem to submit your own lines and watch our poem grow and change throughout April! "" I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere.""- Naomi Shihab Nye" Via LitWorld - An International Non-Profit Advocating for and Working Towards Global Literacy
Paper Tigers - What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-takin... - 1 views
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Earlier this year, the publication of Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother incited a collective airing out of many varieties of race-based hysteria. But absent from the millions of words written in response to the book was any serious consideration of whether Asian-Americans were in fact taking over this country. If it is true that they are collectively dominating in elite high schools and universities, is it also true that Asian-Americans are dominating in the real world?
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Now he understands better what he ought to have done back when he was a Stuyvesant freshman: “Worked half as hard and been twenty times more successful.”
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