Here’s the latest: a Latina teacher is fired for being to “Afro-centric” in her teaching! Because she tries to make up for the skewed history taught in most classrooms, her reward is termination-and don’t miss this-by her African American principal. I realize that curriculum(s) must adhere to certain standards, but when a teacher is fired [...]
Victor Villanueva first post on the CCCC’s blog devoted to diversity can be found here: http://cccc-blog.blogspot.com/
I hope everyone takes a minute to read it.
I just completed my readings for a mini seminar that I am attending in the morning regarding ESL learners and the writing center. All of the texts made some very interesting observations, and brought up some topics that I had not thought about since I got my masters in linguistics. Language has always fascinated me; [...]
This is an very interesting assessment of Obama, and might give those engaging in fictive kinship a moment pf pause. Like Dr West says “Who is funding Obama’s campaign”?
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Dr. Cornell West gave this speech to honor, remind, and indict those that misread the significance of the holiday as “just some black man’s birthday”. The video you are about to see is 45 minutes long, and is not for the faint of heart. But if you want [...]
I love Time magazine. Each week they have very compelling articles, but what I am beginning to realize is that it’s the visual rhetoric that snags my attention. Every cover is done is such a clever way, that it’s hard not to become intrigued with what the actual articles are about. This week, they use [...]
That’s what we should celebrate tomorrow. Forget Columbus; he was a rapist, a pillager of land; in short, a medieval thug. So no, I don’t celebrate a day named for any cultural assassin (s), or a day named for someone who discovered a place that had habitants that knew who and where they were. [...]
Today Bush finally addressed the fact that Latino/a home owners are losing their homes/mortgages at an alarming rate. Statistics show that more Latino/as have lost their homes than Hurricane Katrina victims. So I guess it should come as no surprise that Bush has made a statement in which he empathizes with those folks that have [...]
voting is still the hot topic. Remember my post about the debates and how much voting power we Latino/as actually have? Well, once again the topic of voting in on the table, and the fact that is remains there evidences that we are simply not paying enough attention to it. How can it be that [...]
