An essay about how we all have unconscious bias. In this case, the lack of context of Twitter led to an incorrect assumption.
http://www.theinclusionsolution.me/a-point-of-view-confessions-of-an-unconscious-bias/
Category Archives: Essay
White supremacy’s long shadow: Why the myth of “race” still haunts America by JACQUELINE JONES
In an excerpt of her new book, “A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” Jacqueline Jones describes how, “decades removed from the lows of segregation, black America still struggles against its twisted logic.”
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“Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity” by Koa Beck/Salon
This personal reflection reveals the nature of race and sexual orientation in the United States, and the related reality of privilege.
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/passing_for_white_and_straight_how_my_looks_hide_my_identity/
“How High School Textbooks Indoctrinate Youth with a False and Dangerous Sense of Our Racial History” by Richard Rothstein\Economic Policy Institute
Longer article: http://www.aasa.org/content.aspx?id=30814
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Different Cultural Approaches to Learning
This interesting story looks at the role of struggle and accomplishment in learning, comparing two very different approaches.
Far From Diwali’s Lights, The Warm Glow Of Home by LAKSHMI SINGH/NPR
Second generation Indian Americans, negotiating tradition.
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/03/242807881/far-from-diwalis-lights-the-warm-glow-of-home
Captain American in a Turban – BY VISHAVJIT SINGH/Salon.com
Harvard Business School Case Study: Gender Equity by Jodi Kantor, NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/education/harvard-case-study-gender-equity.html?_r=0
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Liberal Education in Authoritarian Places by By JIM SLEEPER, NY Times
The challenge of US Universities opening branch campuses abroad. “At its best, a liberal education imbues future citizen-leaders with the values and skills that are necessary to question, not merely serve, concentrations of power and profit. Universities that abandon this ideal are lending their good names to the decline of liberal education; turning themselves into career-networking centers for a global managerial work force that answers to no republican polity or moral code; and cheapening the value of the diplomas they hand out, at home and abroad.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/liberal-education-in-authoritarian-places.html?hp
World of Grief and Doubt After an Adoptee’s Death by By RACHEL L. SWARNS and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, NY Times
Issues of culture, diplomacy, expectations, and child rearing often emerge in international adoption cases.
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