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White Fragility: Why It is So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It Is So Hard For For White People To Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo, 2018 Robin DiAngelo is a Diversity Trainer who specializes in Identity Politics. In her experience, it has been very difficult to really … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Psychology
Tagged Authority, Back By The Courts, Bad, Black People, Blaming The Victim, conversation, Defensive, Discrimination, Educated, Good, Great White Flight, Immoral, Moral, Neighborhoods, Opinions, Poverty, Prejudice, Racism, Racism As A System, Racist System, Robin Diangelo, Schools, Shut Down Conversations, Slavery, Social Construct, Socialization, Subhuman, Suburban, Uneducated, Urban, View Point, Violence, White Fragility, White People, White Savior in Movies, White Solidarity, White Supremacy, Why It Is So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay published Bad Feminist in 2014, but it is even more relevant this week. She titled the book Bad Feminist because many women, including herself, often do things that are considered not considered consistent with the Feminist … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics
Tagged #MeToo, 19th Century Women Writers, 2010, 2011, 2012-2017, 2018, 400 Years of Class in America, ACLU, Available Means, Bad Feminist, Brett Kavanaugh, Bush, Caitlin Moran, Catholic Church, Cheryl Sandberg, Chris Brown, Christine Blasey Ford, Democrats, Django Unchained, Domestic Violence, Elevator, Emotional, FBI, Feminism, Feminist Rhetoric and Pedagogy, Gender Trouble, Gillian Flynn, Girls, Gone Girl, Green Girl, Hanna Rosin, Hearing, hope, How To Be A Woman, Hunger, Hysterical, infuriating, Investigation, Jeff Flake, Judith Butler, Kate Zambreno, Katherine Stockett, Lean In, Make-Up, Nancy Isenberg, News, Nominee, Outrage, political agenda, Professor, Racism, Rape, Republicans, Roxane Gay, Senate, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court, Sweet Valley High Series, The End of Men, The Help, Trump, UNCG, White Trash, Yale University
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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America
$2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America By Katheryn J Edin and Luke Schaefer, 2015 After the Civil War in the 1870s, Aid was created for the Windows of the War. That was about all that was available … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health, History, Politics/Economics
Tagged $2.00 A Day, 1962, 1964, 1996, 2015, ADC, AFDC, Aid to Families of Dependent Children, Aid To War Widows, Benefits, Bill Clinton, Civil War, David Ellwood, Families, Food Stamps, Impoverished, Katheryn J Edin, Living On Almost Nothing in America, Luke Schaefer, Lyndon Johnson, Medicaid, Mothers, NWRO, Poor, Poor Support, Poverty, Racism, Reduced and Free Lunches, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, Segragation, Single Mothers, SNAP, Social Security, TANIF, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, The Other America, Villain, Welfare Queen, Welfare Support, Welfare to Work, Working Poor
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Gentrification
July 1, 2017 Gentrification Gentrification comes from the old French word genterise, which means “of gentle birth.” The term refers to the process of renovating poor urban neighborhoods. Gentrification can be seen as an attempt to beautify or civilize the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Abandoned Homes, altruistic, beautification, better themselves, Boarded Up Businesses, Change, Cheap Land, Chicago, City Centers, deindustrialization, Denver, displacement, Economists, education, Evolve, Facelift, fad, Fashion, Flip, gentle, gentle birth, Gentrification, Ghetto, Health Care, homeless, inflation, Inner City, invest in people not places, investments, Jamba Juice, Laundromat, Mansfield, MIddle Class, Monett, New, new problems, Old, Poor, Poverty, profit, Property Taxes, Racism, replacing poor, Rich, rough birth, Shameless, Shelby, Starbucks, Subtext, Suburban, taxes, The Great White Flight, theme, trend, Urban Decay, wage gap, Yoga Studio
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Service
November 15, 2016 Service “Service” is the name of this week’s The Walking Dead episode. I thought that the power struggle between Negan and Rick was a good subtext for the election this year and the subsequent fallout. Tuesday night … Continue reading
Posted in Movies/TV, Politics/Economics
Tagged Abraham, America, Big Bad Wolf, Big Picture, bigoted, Brutal, Canada, Carl, Conflict, conservative, Convergence, Discontent, Educated, Election, Fight, Glen, Government of Wolves, hope, idiot, Intolerent, liberal, Losses, loud mouthed, Lucille, Maggie, Michonne, Negan, Obama, Paralyzed, Peace, Peaceful, Polarization, Poor, Power, President, Protect, Protests, Psychological Warfare, Racism, Racist, Rick, Service, Sexism, Sexist, Subtext, The Hilltop, The Kingdom, The Saviors, The Walking Dead, Tolerance, Tolerant, Torture, Trump, Tyrant, Undermine, Uneducated
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Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens was written by Hauser, Allen and Golden in 2008. Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They were not just failing … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Psychology
Tagged Abuse, agency, beauty, behavior, breakdown in coherence, coherence, Connection, dangerous, didn't shut off emotions, Divorce, Drugs, early parent loss, emptiness more dangerous than rage, Eva Golden, Faith, find your way out of the woods, Healthy, illness, in trouble with the law, Intelligence, isolation, Joseph P Allen, keep looking for love, learn from mistakes, make changes, Narrative, no one loved them unconditionally, Optimism, organized narrative, Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens, Poverty, Power, problems, psychiatric ward, Racism, Risk, risky, see in the dark, self-awarencess, Stuart Hauser, Sucidal, surf anger, survival skills, try new relationships, Unhealthy, unpredicable, Violenent, Wealth
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