Monday, October 5, 2015

Thought you would find this interesting...

This is a video posted by a Texas mom, looking at the "Patterns of Immigration" in the United States.  This feels like a different kind of colorblindness than what we were talking about last week, but this certainly shows the power of language in defining (or erasing) people and their histories.


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  1. I was going to put this on my blog! A friend sent it to me the other day.

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  2. I was going to put this on my blog! A friend sent it to me the other day.

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  3. The term "whitewashing" was used in one of the comments to describe the process of minimalizing/erasing embarrassing history. I've never heard that term before, but it fits. I get riled every Columbus Day thinking about how people celebrate a person who decimated millions of indigenous people. Sigh.

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  4. Follow up:

    Publisher apologizes for textbook calling slaves 'workers':
    http://apmobile.worldnow.com/story/30191935/publisher-apologizes-for-textbook-calling-slaves-workers

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