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Waiting for Tiana: Prioritizing Cultural Diversity in Literature
Recalling a chance encounter with a Princess Tiana shampoo bottle led this educator to reflect on the importance of diverse children’s books.
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Understanding the Prison Label
What is the long-term harm and wider impact of mass incarceration on people and communities of color? The racial caste system established and perpetuated by mass incarceration continues beyond a prison sentence and extends into families, communities and society at large. The criminalization and demonization of black men creates a “prison label” of stigma and shame that damages the black community as a whole.
October 13, 2014
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Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box
My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national trends. “Stop letting all the midlife writers (like myself) tell your stories,” I pushed. “Tell your own.”
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Combating Course Content Segregation
An LGBT student’s gratitude reminded this instructor to include diverse voices in her teaching all year.
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Why Do We (Still) Celebrate Columbus Day?
In this lesson, students will address misconceptions they likely have about Christopher Columbus and the colonization of what is now the United States.
October 9, 2019
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A Call for Anti-Bias Education
To develop the next generation of civic leaders, educate children early and in age-appropriate ways about their identities and key concepts about race.
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these LFJ-approved films!
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Appendix B
LGBTQ Historical Figures The erasure of LGBTQ figures from our history books and classrooms does a disservice to students on three fronts: 1) It introduces bias into our studies, providing an incomplete and unfair
November 7, 2018
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What We’re Reading This Week: April 14
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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How Samuel Morton Got it Wrong
Most natural scientists of the 19th century held the belief that human beings were not only members of different races but of different species (also known as the theory of polygeny). This school of thought relied on the