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Poverty Is Rooted In US Education System, Research Finds

Poverty Is Rooted In US Education System, Research Finds (ScienceDaily, May 5, 2009): “There is no simple answer to alleviate poverty, just as there is no simple answer for its embedded state in...

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The Lion Defeats the Tiger: The past and future of Sri Lanka

Democracy Now! reports the latest news from Sri Lanka, and interviews Ahilan Kadirgamar, a Sri Lankan Tamil activist and a spokesperson of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum. In the latter part of the video...

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People of colour and “computer expert” friends are not your personal assistants.

Both people of colour and “computer expert” (a term that less computer-literate individuals use to refer to computer-literate individuals) friends and relatives are perceived as public resources whose...

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Chinese Canadians protested the perpetual foreigner stereotype in 1979.

In 1979, some White Canadians believed that Chinese Canadian university students were “foreign” students taking the places of “Canadians” in Canadian universities. They produced a program about it,...

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White people think they know all about you from reading a book.

Sometimes a white person says something about people of colour that is untrue, and when you correct her, the white person will insist that she is right because she read it in a book. You know that it...

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Auto-exoticism is Asians performing Chinese New Year for a non-Asian classroom.

Once a year, dmp and her mom performed Chinese New Year for her 98% non-Asian elementary class. Afterward, she went to her grandparents’ house and celebrated Têt, the real New Year’s. dmp writes: I...

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Environmental and social barriers restrict women in science, tech,...

Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (PDF) is a new, publicly-accessible research report by AAUW that “presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research...

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People perceive upper-middle class white men to be smarter than they are.

In On Being Good at Seeming Smart, Eric Schwitzgebel writes (bold emphasis mine): [A]fter a colloquium at which the student had asked a question, one faculty member expressed to me how impressive the...

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Endorsement of racial “color-blindness” is linked to racism.

Color-blind racial ideology linked to racism, both online and offline (University of Illinois, via Racialicious): In a study that examined the associations between responses to racial theme party...

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Québec wants to make niqabi women illegal.

The creeping racism and eroding of civil liberties of Arizona makes me worry about the Quebec Provincial Bill 94 to exclude niqabi women from social services, employment, health, and education. If you...

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Québec’s bill to control niqabi women is sexist and ableist.

In Canada, the province of Québec wants to pass Bill 94 to exclude niqabi women from essential government services, public employment, educational opportunities, and health care. They hope that this...

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Scientists are “normal” people, children discover

In Drawings of Scientists, seventh graders draw and describe their image of scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. BEFORE AFTER The scientist has big square-shaped glasses and a big geeky...

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Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language.

This post was originally published at Geek Feminism. Students who did not have the privilege of hacking since they were young are at a disadvantage in Computer Science (CS). However, CS departments can...

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Canada’s Maclean’s has a whiteness problem.

“‘Too Asian’?” was not the first racist Maclean’s article lamenting the quantity of racialized people displacing white people and white power. In 2006, Maclean’s published “The future belongs to Islam”...

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Maclean’s “‘Too Asian’?” is xenophobic; Margaret Wente’s defence is obfuscation.

In Too Brazen: Maclean’s, Margaret Wente, and the Canadian media’s inarticulacy about race, Jeet Heer writes: The problems with the Maclean’s article are many and systematic. I’ve already discussed...

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White males blame Asians and women for attending universities intended for...

In When Asians enroll! (And other tales from meritocracy’s margins) Sarah Ghabrial writes: Meritocracy forgets privilege, and the fact that folks from marginalized groups have to work a hell of a lot...

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Myths about Girls, Math, and Science

Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science (LiveScience 2007): Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Reality: In elementary school about as...

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Canadian Black History Month teaches us that Canada is “not racist”.

In Why I am Skipping Black History Month Renee of Womanist Musings writes: When I was a child, Black history month consisted of the traditional lecture on Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad,...

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The Paternalistic Academic-Industrial-Complex of Feminism

Here are some excerpts from Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica Yee. (Excerpts via Racialicious): Jessica Yee: “Introduction” [W]e’re not...

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Misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo hates scientist Marie Curie...

In The Fourteen Not Forgotten and Sexist Posters at Waterloo, Christine Cheng discusses a misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo who put up fourteen posters last month (February 2011)...

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