Category: Multiculturalism

Remnant

I called it a gazebo, but it was really more of a covered porch enclosed on two sides by fancy wooden lattice railing painted off-white. The floor wasn’t the grainy wood slabs or the rough concrete of American porches; it was covered in what looked like peel-and-stick vinyl flooring designed to look like brown bricks. …

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Empowerment, The Culture of Power, and a Rigged Game

I’ve been sitting in a lot of meetings for English learners lately. In these meetings, there are usually a bunch of white, educated women sitting around the table. Teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, speech language pathologists, etc. Then the mother enters the room, often carrying a toddler, and sits at the end of the conference table …

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