Tag Archives: race
CFP Deadline: Oct. 10, Special Issue on Islamophobia, Gender, Sexuality and Racism
[ October 6, 2014 to October 10, 2014. ] This special issue of Islamophobia Studies Journal (ISJ) aims to generate and circulate new knowledge about the relationship between Islamophobia, gender, sexuality and racism. This issue is co-edited by Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University) and Paola Bacchetta (University of California at Berkeley). Abstracts are invited by Oct. 10, 2014, and full articles by [...]
Oct 25 Conversation: Jesse Jackson, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, on Politics, Religion, and the Presidential Race, USA
[ September 25, 2012 to October 24, 2012. ] The IRCPL at Columbia University will feature a wide-ranging discussion with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the legendary civil rights leader and first major African American presidential candidate, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the acclaimed social critic and publisher of The Nation magazine, on matters of race, religion, and politics in America today on Oct 25, 2012, [...]
Sri Lanka to abolish ethnic and religious divisions in schools
Teaching @ Tolerance Bursting Stereotypes
This website provides a lesson plan about tolerance modeled around the work and lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Five lesson plans are provided which each focus on a different message of tolerance. Each lesson plan covers a specific age group, ranging from grades Kindergarten through high school.
“Bursting Stereotypes” activity involves students bursting balloons [...]
Im Human, Too
This activity asks students to identify certain beliefs about “their group” that are offensive and then provide positive ways to handle encounters with such remarks. First, students need to identity what group they each belong to.