In case you missed it…
by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
a community of people working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time
- Assignment 5 – Understanding the complexities of international adoption: We hope that through this assignment, we will all begin to see that international adoption is an extremely complex issue that poses many quandaries having to do with race, culture, language, class, power, privilege, economics, politics and the law.
a blog for entertainment, media, advertising and public relations professionals who are committed to bringing about more realistic, three-dimensional representations of people of color
- Eulogy for a magazine: VNU dumps Marketing y Medios: From a publishing perspective, the Latino marketing community literally goes from star to minority status.
- Is another racist reality show headed our way? “A NEW CBS SHOW SEEKS New York families who have traditional family values but are uneasy around Muslims.”
a podcast about America’s obsession with race
- Episode 46: We hand the reins over to our listeners in this episode – it’s a special all listener feedback show!
a blog for parents who are committed to raising children with an anti-racist outlook
- Why my daughter will never dress in a national costume for Halloween: Everyone guessed everything from Aunt Jemima to Kizzy, the slave girl who was one of the main characters from Alex Haley’s then-recent epic movie, Roots. By the time the day ended, I’d ripped the head wrap from my head, and scrubbed my face clean of any makeup.
- Hope vs. Optimism: And in thinking about Cornell West’s quote, I too want to help my children have hope – not just blind optimism that leads to a passively waiting for things to get better – but the kind of hope that leads to actions as a personal agent of change.
a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture
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