Boricua on Sabbatical

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Jury: University of Colorado wrongly fired prof

Ward Churchill, who was a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., left, walks with his lead attorney, David Lane, out of the courtroom Tuesday after a jury ruled that the professor was wrongly fired by school administrators.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Save the Dates!

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sustain This! Wells College 8th Annual Activism Symposium March 26-27, 2009

For the full program click here.

See you there.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Saw What?! Episode 03 part 1

Get to know Sharon Bridgforth

SharonBridgforth.com

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Meg Hutchinson - Seeing Stars

Un momento de intercambio musical.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

TransRhetorics

Conference program click here.

See you there.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Apology: It's Time

Click to see the video by Nomad Two Worlds

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Implicit Bias

OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Nation of Cowards?
By CHARLES M. BLOW
NYT

Published: February 21, 2009

Most whites harbor a hidden racial bias that many are unaware of and don’t consciously agree with. And getting them to talk frankly about race is still hard.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Color of Fear - The 'Red Ground' Scene

Thanks, Debbie, for telling me about this film.

How To Tell People They Sound Racist

Let's get to it.

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Just Sayin'

English is my jet lag

One word

Per time zone.

Spanish is peanut butter

Stuck to the top of my mouth.

Spanglish criollo mix

¿Que, que? No way.

¿Vihte? I told you so.

OMG. Ay, dio' mio.

This is my language.

A language that is not

my mother’s tongue

Or my grandmother’s

It's the craaaazy mix of dis place ment.

Ven pa' ca' que tengo platano y una hamaca

Vamo pa' la barbacoa, you know, the bar-b-q

Bring something sweet.

No te preocupes. Just bring yourself.

Talk some of that mezcla. It's easy.

¿You going back?

¿Cuando vienes?

Las cosas estan bien malas.

And when I talk in English

And when I talk in Spanish

¡Ja! I’m flying through the time zones

I’m chewing down the ground up nuts

I’m choking it out como agua sala’

Gone down the wrong way.

Talk with me in this third tongue

Mix it up with me

Llora. Cry. Mira como todo cambia.

Oh, well. Bendito. Nevermind

Porque de tripas corazones

And sure I’ll do that.

Mañana.

Just as soon as I get home.

Un dia de estos. Okay.

"White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack"

"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group... I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks... In proportion as my racial group was being made confident, comfortable, and oblivious, other groups were likely being made inconfident, uncomfortable, and alienated. Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit in turn upon people of color."
Peggy McIntosh