Isn’t It Interesting

06Nov08

My girlfriend brought up an excellent point yesterday when we were talking about the election results.   All of a sudden, it seems to be ok to talk about Obama as the first black president. I don’t believe people were naive to it earlier, but at the same time there was clearly a stigma surrounding [...]

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Stereotype Variance

22Oct08

From Resist Racism, via Racialicious (an excellent blog on race I don’t mention enough here): Odgerel Hatenboer, who is originally from Mongolia, attended an open day at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, with the hope of enrolling for an accountancy course. However, she was told my a staff member that the course might not be suitable [...]

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