Food For Thought

Monday, February 29, 2016

8. Names

American society easily learns to pronounce names like Tchaikovsky, Schwarzenegger or Galifianakis, but somehow ethnic names like David Oyelowo, Quvenzhané Wallis, or Uzoamaka Aduba seem to be unpronounceable.
Posted by Leah at 5:34 AM
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      • Introduction
      • 1. Hair
      • 2. How is flesh color defined?
      • 3. Normal and Beautiful
      • 4. Marketing Movies
      • 5. Actors and Diversity
      • 6. Black This and Black That
      • 7. Race in Books
      • 8. Names
      • 9. Attitude in Sports
      • 10. Historical Portrayals
      • 11. Whitewashed History
      • 12. Inventors
      • 13. Race and Sense of Identity
      • 14. Clothing
      • 15. Internal Bias
      • 16. Stereotyping Children
      • 17. Internal Bias and Schools
      • 18. Jobs
      • 19. Car Buying
      • 20. Home Ownership
      • 21. Environment
      • 22. Household Wealth
      • 23. Medical Bias
      • 24. "________ing while black"
      • 25. Marijuana Arrests
      • 26. Stops and Searches
      • 27. Criminal Justice
      • 28. CPS and the Foster Care System
      • 29. What do we do now?
      • Resources for Adult Reading
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