American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare by Jason DeParle Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum Feminism is for Everybody (posted to Books in the 'socially responsible' genre)
"But, stopping and considering, perhaps my friend does not know any better. In all, he's a good, responsible guy, but somehow, has been socialized to do this sort of thing - although I doubt he means any harm by it." (posted to The "cat-calling" culture)
Thanks for the great post! I think that incident showed how willfully ignorant many Americans are. I really wanted McCain to respond with the simple facts. Obama's father was a black man from Kenya, his mother a white woman from (posted to Arab-Americans aren't decent people?)
Latino/a (also written as Latin@ to show simultaneously the masculine and feminine forms) is the label constructed by U.S. academics to refer to people of Spanish-speaking Latin American or South American descent who currently live in the United States. It (posted to About the expression "person of color")
People who are trying to apply logic to language that is so politically charged are missing the point. There are lots of terms (for lots of ideas or objects) which don't make sense if you really think about it. But (posted to About the expression "person of color")
The language around disability is not as straight forward as it might first seem. For example, I define myself a disabled person, and a person with a mental health problem. I sometimes use the word mad. From wikipedia article on (posted to About the expression "person of color")
POC is almost never used in everyday conversation here in the UK. Black is used, but there isn't a big population where I live so it doesn't come up often. There is a huge Asian population, by which I mean (posted to About the expression "person of color")
Judaism isn't a race. I'm not sure it should be included in the list of groups that "person of color" would apply to. I'm sorry, I'm having a difficult time articulate what I'm trying to say, but I wanted to (posted to About the expression "person of color")
that would depend of what "white people" you are talking about. There's also different (political) shades of whiteness. Or, it depends, on what you mean by "white". Do you really mean skin-color and ethnicity? If so, then the same "whiteness" (posted to About the expression "person of color")
