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Posts tagged ‘african-american’

Jul 6

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The Most Discriminated Minorities in the World

Soooo…for those of you who don’t know me, my name is Buchi Offodile and I am kind of a big deal. I will be guest writing for this blog for the next few weeks…or until Toby kicks me off…whichever comes first. We should get an Over/Under poll started. I am going with under 5 weeks. Leave your vote in the comments. Send payments to my email address. Oh, and in the spirit of full disclosure…all proceeds go to me :)

Anyway, I was recently thinking about the world’s minorities and I eventually came around to asking myself if any single group of minorities has it worse than all the others. Read more

Jan 12

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Separate Skins: African-American Teenage Girls and the Barbie Complex

I was browsing around on understandingrace.org, which has a lot of really great information and articles regarding ideas about race in contemporary culture. We’ll be referencing this site a lot in the coming weeks, so it’s worth a look around. The first thing that really grabbed my attention was this video, a 7-minute documentary about the pressures to look “white” as perceived by a group of African-American teenage girls. Read more

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