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From Beirut to New York to Houston: De Tocqueville on Race in America

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. May 1, 2011. De Tocqueville on Race in America. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. 1835, quoted in Cornel West, Race Matters. 1994, Vintage Books, p. 135. July 18, 2011 4:31 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: Sagging

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. January 31, 2011. So this is the crisis in the 'hood. Lampposts, laundromats, fences have signs to come to the community meeting. What's the issue? What's corroding our neighborhoods? What do we have to join together to address and stop? Pull up your pants, because you look like an idiot.". Do you know what that means? At the end of our scavenger hunt in Central Park, the tie...

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: Relating Across our Human Differences

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. May 1, 2011. Relating Across our Human Differences. Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider. 1984 quoted in Cornel West, Race Matters. 1994, Vintage Books, p. 93. July 18, 2011 4:38 AM. Bad decisions make good stories.

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: Top 5 Bible Verses

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. January 31, 2011. Top 5 Bible Verses. 2 Corinthians 4: 8-9. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. For to us a child is born,. To us a son is given,. And he will be called. Top 5 Bible Verses.

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: 05/01/2010 - 06/01/2010

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. May 25, 2010. Top 5 Karaoke Songs. Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin. Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses. Take a Look at Me Now by Marriah Carey. Estoy Aqui by Shakira. 1 i thank You God for most this amazing by e.e. cummings. 2 The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. 3 Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God by John Donne. 4 Theme for English B by Langston Hughes. May 20, 2010.

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: Facebook Status Updates from a South Bronx 10th grader

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. February 4, 2011. Facebook Status Updates from a South Bronx 10th grader. Was on the 17 bus smell like mad weed lmao. Times is ruff now nigga gotta be smoking on the buses. My favorite animal is steak. White version: 911 what your emergency? Black version: 911 wat the fuck is wrong wit yu? A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. I never did very well in math - I...

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: 10/01/2010 - 11/01/2010

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. October 29, 2010. Advice to a New Teacher. This was a very long e-mail I wrote in 2002 to a friend of a friend who was looking for some advice about starting out as a new teacher. As for advice, I could give tons and tons and tons. 1) Get Wong's First Days of School. I'm not sure if that's the correct title or author. And I've never read it, but everyone says it's good. 5) Cl...

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: 11/01/2010 - 12/01/2010

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. November 24, 2010. Top 5 Funniest Movie Moments. 1) Will Farrell praying to the little baby Jesus in Talledega Nights. 2) Trying to wake up Bill Murrey in What About Bob? 3) Large Marge in PeeWee's Big Adventure. 4) James Franco's aborted ascension into heaven in This is the End. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: Jazz

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. May 1, 2011. Can encompass feminists like Frederick Douglass or W.E.B. Du Bois. Black people's rage should not overlook homophobia, yet also should acknowledge that heterosexuality per se. Can be associated with so-called "straight" anti-homophobes- just as the struggle against black poverty can be supported by progressive elements of any race, gender, or sexual orientation.

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From Beirut to New York to Houston: Du Bois on Double-Consciousness

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From Beirut to New York to Houston. New York, Lebanon, Palestine, race, teaching, migrant domestic workers, war, and some recipes. May 1, 2011. Du Bois on Double-Consciousness. Du Bois, quoted in Cornel West, Race Matters. 1994, Vintage Books, p. 138. Well-said. This is pretty much exactly how I imagine minority self-awareness playing out. July 18, 2011 4:25 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Bad decisions make good stories. Nblinks - Nate Barksdale.