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'Who We Are: Race in America' ⭐︎⭐︎ at SXSW Online 2021

‘Who We Are: Race in America’ ⭐︎⭐︎ at SXSW Online 2021

“Jeffrey Robinson’s Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” means to be timely, coming less than a year after the death of George Floyd (25 May 2020), but with the rise of AAPI hate crimes since February of last year, the documentary is part of a symptom of the problem: a binary view of racism heavily dependent upon East Coast history. Robinson’s narrative mixes the personal with the…

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Oscars Nominations and Diversity

Oscars Nominations and Diversity

This year’s Oscar nominations provides the possibility for some Asian and Asian American firsts, and does fairly well on diversity. Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” and “Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” both had six nominations as did “The Sound of Metal,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “The Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7. “Minari” and  “Nomadland,” compete with “The Father, “Judas and the…

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Ms. Geek Speaks: Teachers and Race by the Numbers

Ms. Geek Speaks: Teachers and Race by the Numbers

My friend posted this meme. It supposedly asks you to reflect on your life and potential racism, but what does it really mean?

The original person who posed this question graduated from Trenton State College in 1962 and went on to the University of Idaho in 1969.  She had never had a black male teacher, even during the 1980s when she took computer classes at SUNY Cortland. I don’t know what her…

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