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“New York City, where the foreign-born and their children make up roughly 60 percent of the population, is home to upwards of a dozen small, ethnically based beauty pageants, among them Miss Trinidad and Tobago, Miss India and Miss Polonia.”
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“when is the media going to question Republican candidates like Mitt Romney who signify their own white maleness by claiming to be lifelong hunters, or cowboys, or even just by invoking the specter of female authority.”
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Obama resists oppression olympics. “Barack Obama was asked the annoying question about comparing the black struggle to the gay one, to which he responded, “I’m always very cautious about getting into comparisons of victimology.”
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“the Dragon Master will be headed to a 12-month outpatient mental health program…if he fails to comply with the program’s requirements and fails to take his medication, or if he violates his neighbors’ orders of protection, he can be resentenced up to 4
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“While many Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian students typically do well in school…Pacific Islanders and Southeast Asians of Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Thai and Burmese descent often don’t…”
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“A new video game, ICED!, apparently lets players step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the U.S. immigration system…you can be a Japanese computer science student who fails to take a full load of university classes and loses his student vis
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“This cartoon is a couple of week old, but it’s still worth mentioning… what really gets me is that the cartoon conflates the questionable safety of food from China with Chinese restaurants in America.”
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Mrs Edwards: “In some ways, it’s the way we have to go…We can’t make John black, we can’t make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars. Now it’s nice to get on the news, but not the be all and end
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“the blinding whiteness of the liberal blogosphere, as represented at YearlyKos, is seen as a cause for some concern and alienation to people of color who happen to be involved, and merely an annoying tangential subject to white mainstreamers who have mor
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“… a bag of hangman’s nooses was found under the plant’s human resources director’s desk … …The graffiti included the “N word” on a paper towel holder…So guess who got fired? A woman who reported the use of the n-word, that’s who”
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From Philipp: “Amazing how almost every single cover in the early days of this pulp series depicts an “innocent white woman” being attacked by a racial stereotype”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of