Are you in North America? Do you know about the Native American history of the places you live, work, or call home? This website can help. The maps here (and their links) can help you learn about Native territories, treaties, and languages.
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Jon Greenberg: Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston
Teaching about Privilege: Microgressions
Sometimes it is hard for dominant culture students to understand the way that power and privilege are enacted in communication. These examples may be helpful.
http://microaggressions.tumblr.com/
And here’s another format, an article about the tumblr site that also describes more about the concept of microaggression: http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis?bffb
Geography of Hate: Geotagged Hateful Tweets in the United States
“The Geography of Hate is part of a larger project by Dr. Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) identifying the geographic origins of online hate speech. Undergraduate students Amelia Egle, Matthew Eiben and Miles Ross, worked to produce the data and this map as part of Dr. Stephens’ Advanced Cartography course at Humboldt State University.
The data behind this map is based on every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 – April 2013 containing one of the ‘hate words’. This equated to over 150,000 tweets and was drawn from the DOLLY project based at the University of Kentucky. Because algorithmic sentiment analysis would automatically classify any tweet containing ‘hate words’ as “negative,” this project relied upon the HSU students to read the entirety of tweet and classify it as positive, neutral or negative based on a predefined rubric. Only those tweets that were identified by human readers as negative were used in this analysis.”
http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#
Related articles
- Mapping America’s racist and homophobic tweets (dailydot.com)
- Twitter: The angriest site on the Internet (cnn.com)
Crowd-sourcing a New Map for the Buckminster Fuller Institute -From the Cultural Detective Blog
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NPR’s Codeswitch: Frontiers of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity
NPR’s Great Site for Stories about Culture: http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/
Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication
The Intercultural Communication Institute sponsors a wonderful Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication each July. The website and list of this year’s courses is at http://www.intercultural.org.
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