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“Dr. Dawkins explains how NYU’s Washington Square Park inspired her with the idea for looking at passing in her new book “Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity.”

Check it out at

www.clearlyinvisiblebook.com and www.marciadawkins.com

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“ITYC Radio had the pleasure of interviewing Shannon Bennett of Mulattotude last week and we’re happy to finally share our interview with you. We talked to Shannon about motherhood, being a mixed adoptee, and the lessons about race and identity she’s learned from her two sons.

We also had a great discussion about Shannon’s work in academia at an HBCU and the challenges of being a woman of color in academia. You can listen to the interview here, on iTunes or in the ITYC Radio playeron the left.”

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The Differences Between an Anglo Kid’s Birthday Party and a Latino Kid’s Birthday Party

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and human life should not have a price tag

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“First, let’s get it straight. The model minority myth is a lie.

The myth first entered the popular consciousness of Americans in the 1960s, shortly after the passage of federal civil rights legislation. It started with a 1966 New York Times article, “Success Story: Japanese American Style” that argued that Japanese Americans, just 21 years after virtually the entire community was interned, had risen to success through quietly working hard and making sacrifices to create opportunities for their children.

U.S. News and World Report’s “Success Story of One Minority Group in U.S.” in 1968, and Newsweek’s “Success Story: Outwhiting the Whites” published in 1971, sealed the deal.”

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“…rich urban areas have way, way more trees than poor areas in the same city. In fact, the difference is so stark that income inequality can be seen from space”

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Velina Hasu Houston (Japanese, Blackfoot Pikuni Native American Indian, and African American) [American]

Known as: Award winning playwright, essayist, poet, author, editor, and screenwriter (Plays: “Tea”, “Asa Ga Kimashita”, “Kokoro”, “The Matsuyama Mirror”, “Hula Heart”, “Ikebana (Living Flowers)”, “Shedding the Tiger”, “Waiting for Tadashi”)

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“…brown-skinned people are actually called blacks (except when they’re Latino) and pink-skinned people are actually called whites (except when they happen to be your extremely light-skinned younger sister). Watching Sky struggle with this, I’m aware that part of me wishes he would never figure it out. That there was nothing to figure out in the first place.”

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Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca

photos from Southern Border Communities Coalition

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No More Deaths is a group of people of conscience and faith that assert the right to provide humanitarian aid to migrants…