Tag Archives: diversity
Diversifying emojis
Apple’s devices now offer users more diversity when it comes to skin tone options and ethnicity on the range of emojis for use in messaging.
Race in America – Charts that Illustrate Where We Are
Diversity is Coming to Late-Night TV
Dominated by white male personas for decades, late-night TV may finally be getting a long-deserved dose of diversity.
Read / listen to a recent story on NPR’s Morning Edition explores how female comedians Aisha Tyler, Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer could shake things up in the near future.
Coca-Cola’s “diversity” Superbowl commercial still causing ripples
Guardian commentator Gary Younge comments on how material improvements in the lives of those without privilege continues to threaten those who benefit from it by examining responses to Coca-Cola’s controversial America the Beautiful Superbowl commercial.
White Privilege Explained Comic Style
Ani DiFranco, White Feminists, and Racism
There have been quite a few good articles about the problem of racism and white centering among White feminists. If you are not familiar with the current conflict, Ani DiFranco has been criticized for planning a songwriting workshop (since cancelled) at a former plantation in Louisiana. In addition to the lack of sensitivity to the issue of slavery, history, and ongoing racism, DiFranco has been criticized for how the situation was handled after the fact. This post is a good one for those of us who are white to read, examining how we can address our own racism, including what to do when we have inadvertently offended someone (with a great comparison with an accidental physical injury).
Related:
- http://www.forharriet.com/2013/12/dear-ani-difranco-supporters-you-cannot.html
- http://www.xojane.com/issues/after-solidarityisforwhitewomen-so-you-want-to-be-an-ally
- http://www.tolerance.org/activity/test-yourself-hidden-bias
- http://www.salon.com/2013/08/16/what_picketing_taught_me_about_feminism/
- http://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2013/aug/15/racist-sexist-you-are-more
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
Captain American in a Turban – BY VISHAVJIT SINGH/Salon.com
Roxane Gay strives to diversify the literary conversation By Emily Keeler/LATimes
Related articles
- Questions for Roxane Gay’s “Once, I was pretty” (donniequrewp.wordpress.com)
- A Shortage of Diversity in the Literary World (theopedproject.wordpress.com)
- The Roxane Gay interview (zulkey.com)
Intercultural Resources 