Ethnicity

Arizona 2012: New Leaders With Ethnic Studies Caravan Will Move On and Flourish, Barking Dogs Will Fade

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.30.2011 | Education

Read More: Latino, Richard Martinez, Selina Rodriguez, Mexican American Studies, Ethnicity, Tucson, Tom Horne, Immigration, Arizona, Race, John Huppenthal, Ethnic Studies, Politics, Education, Federal Court, Tea Party, Education News

"After taking Raza Studies in high school, I felt like it was my obligation to make sure to stay connected with the community and search for solutions in improving our local environment."

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The Science of Seinfeld

Sam Sommers | Posted 12.12.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Television, Situations Matter, Daily Show, Media, The Daily Show, Irs, Tax Writeoff, Dvds, Social Norms, Ethnicity, Race, Human Nature, Love and Relationships, Context-Dependent, Fabric of Society, Attraction, Attribution, Identity, Love, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Elaine Benes, Curb Your Enthusiasm, George Costanza, Kramer, Video, Entertainment News

Far from a "show about nothing," Seinfeld was actually an analysis of the ins and outs of daily human interaction-of the mundane social experiences previously not deemed worthy of exploration in front of a mass audience.

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Who Owns Hispanic Social Media?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 12.06.2011 | Latino Voices

Communication is a fundamental function of human existence. And it does not require corporate sponsorship. That primordial need to listen, and in turn to be heard, will always drive social media.

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'My Tram Experience' Race Relations in Modern Britain

Nabeela Zahir | Posted 12.01.2011 | UK

Read More: Islamophobia, Racism, Hate Crimes, London Riots, UK Riots, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, Race Relations, UK Politics, My Tram Experience, UK News

There has never been a time when a racial utopia has existed and I doubt such a thing could ever exist, but we are losing sight of what makes the UK a racially tolerant and welcoming society. It is time for us to bring the discussion of race relations back to the forefront.

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Black In The Whitest Corner Of Russia

Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson | Posted 11.11.2011 | Travel

Read More: Russia, Trans-Siberian Railway, Blacks, Ethnicity, Grannies on Safari, Travel, Siberia, Race, African-American, Zaringold, Slidepollajax, Travel News

An entire group of Russian tourists asked if they too could take my picture! I was a novelty and it was 2010!

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London Is No Longer An English City and Who Won World War Two?

John Fleming | Posted 11.14.2011 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Racism, John Cleese, Immigration, Ethnicity, Multi-Culturalism, London-United Kingdom, UK Lifestyle News

Recently, John Cleese told an Australian interviewer: "London is no longer an English city... it doesn't feel English." Last night I saw Arnold Weske...

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Can Ethnic Pride Translate into Hatred?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.01.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Ethnicity, Hispanic, St. Patrick?S Day, Hispanics, Prejudice, Race, Racial Warfare, German, Appalachia, Education, Racism, Ethnic Pride, Discrimination, Tribalism, Irish, Racial Bigotry, Bigotry, Advocacy, Latino Voices News

Does being an activist for your own race mean discriminating against others?

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I Was Told I Needed Plastic Surgery

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 10.30.2011 | Style

Read More: Television, Italian, Acting, Entertainment, Jewish, Ethnicity, Tv, Plastic Surgery, Racism, Self-Esteem, Beauty, Film, Nose Job, Movies, Lip-Injections, Hollywood, Style News

If women, especially public figures, keep giving into this bizarre fake ideal of what beauty is, the cycle will never end.

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No Country for Stateless People

Davinder Kumar | Posted 10.29.2011 | UK

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Civil Liberties, Unhcr, Politics, Human Rights, International Development, Children, Ethnicity, United Nations, Democracy, Discrimination, Refugees, Civil Rights, World News, UK News

Unwanted, unheard and unseen, stateless people exist with a sinking feeling of rejection. 'Let's go home, back to our country,' is not an option. There isn't any country for stateless people.

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Divide and Conquer

Jay Tavare | Posted 10.24.2011 | Impact

Read More: Divide and Conquer, Colonialism, American Indians, Ethnicity, Skin Color, Discrimination, Tribalism, Race, Star Trek, Cherokee, Culture, Seminole, Impact News

As 2012 approaches and our global village gets smaller and more crowded, we must remind ourselves that underneath the stars we are all one race, one people.

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A New Voice for Asian Americans

2morrowknight | Posted 10.24.2011 | Culture

Read More: Christina Lee, Radio Korea, Asian-Americans, Race, Sung Lee, Asian, Media, Ethnicity, Asian-America Culture, Korean, Media News, American Dream, Los Angeles, AMN Radio, Culture News

Eighty years ago, in his best-seller The Epic of America, historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "American Dream." He defined it as not merel...

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Do Clothes Define Your Ethnicity?

Arielle Hixson | Posted 10.24.2011 | Black Voices

Read More: Racism, Fashion, Clothes, Social Status, Ethnicity, Hipster Clothes Style, Hair-Beauty-Beauty-Hair, BV Life, Urbanism, Hip Hop Clothing, Black Voices News

Are clothes associated with a particular race? This controversial question may fuel a debate. Certain aspects of fashion tend to connect to particular ethnic groups in the United States.

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How Will Personal-Feedback Loops Affect the Hispanic Population?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.20.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Latinos, Latino, Gottafeeling, Personal-Feedback Loop, Ethnicity, English, Cultural Feedback, Alicia Morga, Smart Phones, Hispanic, Spanish, Social Network, Immigration, Entrepreneurs, Northwestern University, Hispanics, Refleta, Race, Angelica Perez-Litwin, Educational Achievement, Feedback Loops, Voter Registration, U.S. Census, iPhone App, Immigrant, Technology, Ethnic Group, Prenatal Care, Latino Voices News

Could a personal-feedback loop help recent immigrants learn English more quickly? Might the idea be applied to concepts like voter registration or proper prenatal care, both of which are issues within the Latino population?

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Hispanics and Illegal Immigration - Where the Conversation Stops

Stephen Palacios | Posted 10.19.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Latinos, Samuel Huntington, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Ethnicity, Hispanic, Latino Voices News

Hispanic opinions on illegal immigration have what I believe is a reasoned, and reasonable perspective on comprehensive illegal immigration reform.

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Rights and Responsibilities of the Black Community

Freedom Sithole | Posted 10.09.2011 | UK

Read More: Politics, Black Britain, London Riots, Ethnicity, Tottenham Riot, Looting, UK News

One of the points made in that previous blog was a feeling that the media was only interested in hearing from black or other ethnic minorities when problems occurred in those communities. Well I can't complain about a lack of black faces on TV over the last 3 to 4 days now. What I have been seeing over the last 4 days are attempts by Black politicians, community leaders and community workers to explain something that many of them do not really seem to grasp that well themselves.

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Marvel's Mixed Race "Ultimate Spider-Man"

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 10.03.2011 | Entertainment

Today we meet Miles Morales, a younger multiracial and multiethnic Spider-Man. Even though Morales may remind us of the Spider-Man we're used to in the more traditional Marvel universe, there are definite differences.

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Ethnic Voices in the British Media Pt 1

Freedom Sithole | Posted 09.26.2011 | Media

Read More: Race, Politics, Ethnicity, Phone Hacking, Media, Media News

Two weeks ago I sat down with a couple of friends over coffee London, discussing the closure of the News of the World and their last edition the previ...

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Pretending Not to Notice Race

Sam Sommers | Posted 08.13.2011 | Politics

Read More: First Impressions, White Americans, Colorblind, Prejudice, Race, Guess Who, African Americans, Ethnicity, Stephen Colbert, Martin Luther King, Funny or Die, Politics News

Have you ever had a conversation like the fictional one above, in which the person you're talking to (or maybe you yourself) hesitated before using race to describe someone? Or maybe avoided mentioning race altogether?

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When Whites Feel Marginalized

Sam Sommers | Posted 07.31.2011 | Politics

Read More: Stigma, Racism, Survey, Discrimination, Bias, Employment, Whites, Blacks, Ethnicity, Politics News

In an era in which all groups, even the historically empowered majority, see themselves as victims of bias, deciding from which direction to combat the problem of discrimination will only continue to become an increasingly difficult task.

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Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 07.23.2011 | Style

Read More: Black Women, Scott Barry Kaufman, Attractiveness, Representative Sample, Lse Spokesman, London School of Economics, Ethnicity, Add Health, Adolescents, Adulthood, Native American Women, Academic Freedom, Psychology Today, Race, Internal Investigation, Jelte Wicherts, Student Organization, African American Women, Firestorm, Controversial Conclusions, Evolutionary Psychology, Outrage, Empirical Findings, Satoshi Kanazawa, Psychologist, Style News

The low convergence of ratings finding suggests that in this very large and representative dataset, beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder. What we are looking at here are simple ratings of attractiveness by interviewers whose tastes differ rather strongly.

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Urban Engines -- American Cities Must Grow

Greg Selkoe | Posted 06.11.2011 | Politics

Read More: La, Census, Gregory E. Selkoe, Economics, Zoning, Chicago, Urban Planning, Ethnicity, Non-Profit, Boston, Sexual Orientation, US Census, Inventions, Innovation, US Economy, Future, Policy, Business, Columbus, Race, Government, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Greg E. Selkoe, Development, Universities, Detroit, Greg Selkoe, Start-Ups, Invention, City, Innovation Economy, Census 2010, US Cities, New York, Creative Economy, Competition, San Francisco, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Cities, Diversity, 501-c3, Selkoe, Politics News

My name is Greg Selkoe and I am an entrepreneur. This is a phrase I am proud of and no matter what the activity, whether it was when I worked at City ...

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Has Anti-Latino Sentiment Peaked?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Population, Latino, Undocumented Immigrants, Ethnicity, Illegal Immigration, Utah Immigration Law, Immigrants, Immigration, Arizona, Hispanics, Prejudice, Utah, 2010 Census Population Growth, Kansas, Virgil Peck, Illegal Immigrants, U.S. Census, Racism, Gop, Discrimination, Sb 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Adam and Steve, Republican Party, Bigotry, Latinos, Liberal Media, Racial Hostility, Anti-Latino, Xenophobia, Hispanic, Undocumented Immigration, Population Demographics, Racial Discrimination, Ethnic Hatred, Anti-Hispanic, Gay Marriage, Undocumented, Politics News

Virgil Peck's feeble attempt at humor lines up with the more overt shrieking of those conservatives who are terrified of Latinos, immigrants, undocumented people, or all three. They know that their mindset, once the default setting for the nation, is fading away.

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What Is the Arab Third Estate?

Uriel Abulof | Posted 01.03.2012 | World

For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.

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Is Tribalism on the Increase?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Latino, White Supremacists, Racial Purity, Ethnicity, Racist, Mlk, Asian Americans, Hispanic, White Supremacy, Hispanics, Race, Northwest Front, Journalism, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Segregation, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Martin Luther King Jr., Darwinism, Racism, Biracial, Integration, Martin Luther King Day, Tribalism and Racism, Tribalism, African Americans, Black Separatism, Minorities, Politics News

When I was a college student, I worked at the student newspaper. I was a longhaired, hard-drinking journalist -- a Woodward and/or Bernstein in traini...

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Are Chinese Mothers Superior? You Can Decide for Yourself

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Basically Amy Chua wrote the book we didn't. Which means my own Tiger Mother was right: my laziness was going to be my "downfall" one day.

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