Sunday’s Best | 1920s
Rensler’s Photography Studio of Cincinnati, Ohio. African American vernacular photography via Black History Album.
Posted 5 hours ago
The Stunning Geography of Incarceration
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There are 5,393 carceral facilities in the United States, places where people are held in local jails, state prisons, federal corrections facilities, immigration detention centers – “anywhere where an individual can be sort of confined and locked up,” explains Josh Begley, “and, in some of the bigger instances, warehoused in one place.” [via @prisonculture]
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Posted 5 hours ago
Education vs. Incarceration
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Using Philadelphia as an example, this graphic compares the cost, both financial and societal, of education and incarceration. [via @prisonculture]
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Posted 11 hours ago
White Mind (Part II)
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Part I defined White Mind as the unconscious patterns of thought and behavior resulting from socialization as a white American, and one of the causes for the low representation of people of color in all aspects of the children’s book field today.
Part II offers ways to make White Mind conscious and change resulting behaviors. (I directly address white readers here, though I hope it’s provocative for all.)
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Posted 1 day ago
Seeing Black and White Makes People More Judgmental
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Black-and-white judgments may be more literal than you might expect. A new study finds that people who view information on a black-and-white background are less likely to see gray areas in moral dilemmas than those who get the information alongside other colors.
See on livescience.com
Posted 1 day ago
The Problem With No Name
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The concept of skin colour, which is a creation of the white mind, is the pathology in which white supremacy thrives. And because of that supremacy, that control to dictate what is considered right and wrong, ugly and beautiful, sinful and holy, worthy and unworthy, dangerous and benign, whites have the means to influence not just how THEY are judged but how WE are judged.
See on diaryofanegress.com
Posted 2 days ago
Posted 2 days ago
White Mind
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By White Mind, I do not mean conscious prejudice or racist attitudes. It is not what you believe, what you intend, the values you are committed to or how you choose to behave. I’m speaking instead of the unconscious patterns that result from social conditioning as the dominant and majority race in the U.S. for the last several hundred years. Being a dominant group member is like having a free pass that members of out-groups don’t have, but with no awareness of having it. Given such conditioning, developing White Mind is pretty much inescapable.
See on coloringbetween.blogspot.fr
Posted 2 days ago
Should we sacrifice our brains to the Internet?
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One of the greatest effects of the Internet is its ability to capture our attention only to scatter it, ultimately producing a generation whose brains are being better hardwired to scan, skim and multitask, causing a weakening in our ability to read and think deeply in a concentrated manner.
See on duluthnewstribune.com
Posted 2 days ago
Should we sacrifice our brains to the Internet?
See on Scoop.it - Brains & ThingsOne of the greatest effects of the Internet is its ability to capture our attention only to scatter it, ultimately producing a generation whose brains are being better hardwired to scan, skim and multitask, causing a weakening in our ability to read and think deeply in a concentrated manner.
See on duluthnewstribune.com
Posted 2 days ago
The new face of “Democrats are the real racists!”
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So: It’s true, and no one denies this, that Republicans used to be very good on civil rights and Democrats used to be super racist. It’s true that Woodrow Wilson was a bigot and (Northern, liberal) Republican senators were better than (Southern, conservative) Democratic senators on civil rights in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Williamson’s argument seems to be that Republicans couldn’t have taken advantage of a Democratic split over civil rights by appealing to racist white Southern voters because Republicans were too uniformly pro-civil rights, themselves. (This great big lie he’s debunking is one that Nixon and Lee Atwater and Ronald Reagan happily signed on to — they were thrilled when the Democrats fractured the New Deal coalition by eventually embracing civil rights!)
See on salon.com
