One of the reasons I’m enjoying my diversity class: it’s making me see things that would never have occured to me in my white, middle class world.

Latin women pray “in Spanish to an Anglo God/with a Jewish heritage,” and they are “ferverntly hoping/that if not omnipotent,/at least He be bilingual.” (Cofer, 2004, p. 364)

Cofer, Judith [...]

The conclusive objection to the political enfranchisement of women is, that it would weaken and finally break up and destroy the Christian family. The social unit is the family, not the individual; and the greatest danger to American society is, that we are rapidly becoming a nation of isolated individuals, without family ties or affections. [...]

I’ve found the “gay” chapter. It’s titled Leviticus 18:22.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

In the second paragraph we read:

He found it mystifying the way one guy after the other could get all gooey and romantic over this girl or that, eye each other in the morning, be fooling around [...]

Chapter two tells the story of a white woman in Essex County Virginia where school integration did not occur until seventeen years after Brown v. Board of Education and seven years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Our leading lady is a school teacher who considered her self color-blind. Her boyfriend is adopted and [...]

One of my classes requires that I read three newspaper articles throughout the semester and post a one page reaction to the article for other class members to respond to. My first thought was, “Cool! I get to blog for homework.” I have to post these entries to a class discussion board so you won’t [...]

Muslim attitudes and beliefs are at the top of many people’s minds these days. Some spend their days fearing a terrorist attack. Others, including me, are just trying to get a handle on a culture that seems completely foreign to our way of thinking. Recently an article appeared in the International Herald Tribune titled “Murder [...]

You know you are at a university when the graffiti in the bathroom stall is about politics and not sex.

I’m reading a book for my social justice and diversity class called Passing: When people can’t be who they are. It’s an easy read from a literary stand point, but it’s a little more challenging emotionally. The first story is of a young man of black/Jewish ancestry who nevertheless looks white and spends most of [...]