Interesting Stuff on the Internet (02/05/2012)
Thought for the Week
Remember, I educate you not because I have to but out of love... So the updates for this month will focus on race and ethnicity. I'm not a psychologist, or a sociologist, or even an anthropologist, but I know stupid human behavior when I see it. And now you get to see it too. Unfortunately, some of this is going to be "advanced material" that isn't going to readily accessible to those who don't spend their lives facing these issues. But I'm sure you will catch on quickly.Featured Site for the Week: Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello
Ever wonder how Thomas Jefferson reconciled his views on liberty with his ownership of people? You and everyone else... To help answer this question, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello present “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty”. Highlights include:
- Thomas Jefferson: Liberty & Slavery
- Life on the Monticello Plantation
- Enslaved Families of Monticello
Bad Sign Language: Why We’re Not Loving This McDonalds/Barbie Collaboration
- First of all, McDonald's, we would like to thank you for acknowledging that little black girls do have dreams. But maybe next time, you could have them dream of something other than becoming impossibly sized white women with blue eyes and long, silky blonde hair. File under "standards of beauty".
- Aren't you going to do something with your hair? File under "standards of beauty" again.
- Because everyone must know that they will be the downfall of society.
- "Race impacts our lives every day & in every way." Still.
- Because there is a right way and a wrong way.
- Like you can't be a Republican. File under "internalized racism".
- If slaves could have written... (because we didn't actually let them do that.)
- File under "history of mass media".
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