Sam Richards
Asian Stereotypes and the World of Sports
ESPN apologized for a headline that they ran with a story about Jeremy Lin after he had nine turnovers in a Knicks loss to the Hornets Friday night. The headline: “Chink in the Armor” I guess the culturally sensitive proof readers over at ESPN had never heard of this ethnic slur that emerged in the [...]
Interracial Marriage On the Rise
Census data about births, marriage, and co-habitation tell us that people from different ancestry groups are coupling at rates never before seen. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, of course, because global connectivity and media portrayals of multicultural friendships are ever present and we model what we actually see around us. Aside from this, [...]
Do I really need to learn Spanish?
posted by Sam Richards Do you have any idea how many times you’ve been lied to and didn’t know it? Really…think about it. How often does your silly, gullible self accept something as true because…well…because you believed the source? And how often have you passed on the lie to others? It’s painful for me to [...]
Alabama’s Migrant Workers – Colbert’s Perspective
I’m curious about what you think of this video and the essential idea that immigrant labor is critical for the functioning of our economic and social system. There’s a lot in this video that calls forth some sort of response. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Alabama’s Migrant Workers www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report [...]
The Racial Wealth Gap and Progress
Given that the wealth gap between black and white and Hispanic and white households has increased in the past decade and a half, it is no wonder that blacks and Hispanics are less likely to see “progress” in race relations, as the article below discusses. As I mentioned in class the other day, in 1995 [...]
Painful Narrowmindedness
But because it’s also painfully funny, it’s tolerable. Wait…actually, that any group or single individual could be so narrow in their thinking is not really funny. I’d like to believe that the clip is edited in such a way that this appears more troublesome that it really is. But as I’ve been watching the fear-mongering [...]