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Tag Archives: racism
Priming Students for Seeing White Privilege
Here’s a trick I use—which seems to work—in order to prime students to be predisposed to looking for rather than dismissing white privilege when I talk about race in my REL 101 course. I introduce the topic by pointing out … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy
Tagged pedagogy, Race, racism, teaching, white privilege
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Profile Me: The Confederate Flag, Shame, and White Male Terror
In spring of 2011, Asra Nomani suggested that ethnic profiling of Muslim Americans was a legal and moral imperative given her community’s failure to adequately police itself. A year later, she stepped forward and called for expanded surveillance inside her … Continue reading
How It Works: Shirley Sherrod, Park51, and the Big Mistake in American Culture
Two stories in the news that had me riveted this summer. First, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” the Park51 Islamic community center (Jon Stewart labeled it the “Community Center of Death”) that a few Muslim New Yorkers applied for permission … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Religion in the News
Tagged ADL, Big Mistake, forgiveness, Frans de Waal, grief, healing, Islamophobia, Muslims in America, Park51, racism, Shirley Sherrod, tolerance, white privilege
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