Blog – Page 4 – World Against Racism Museum

2010/07/20

Facing Racism: Reminiscence of Japanese American Immigrant

The Japanese began immigrating to Hawaii (incorporated as a U.S. territorial possession in 1900) and the West Coast in significant numbers starting in the 1890s. Chinzen Kinjo, who arrived in Hawaii soon after 1900, described how Japanese plantation workers reacted to the despotic rule of the “lunas” or overseers—reminiscent of the racist abuses of Old South slave plantations. From Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, The Japanese American Family Album (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 50:

2010/06/15

Virtual “Body Swapping” Affects Gender Identity

endracism Facing Racism 0

The World Against Racism Foundation (https://www.endracism.org) studies the destructive consequences when gender identity is treated as a biological given rather than what it really is: a developmental process shaped by interacting social and psychological factors. See our web site at www.endracism.org.

2010/05/16

Gays and Lesbians in the American Military During World War II

endracism Encountering Racism 1

An estimated 650,000 gay men and women served in the Armed Forces during World War II, despite the official ban on gay military service. Among these: Air Medal recipient Robert Ricks, a WWII B-24 bomber navigator whose plane was shot down in August 1943 and who spent the rest of the war behind German lines, including three months in Dachau; and Bronze winner Robert Fleisher who helped liberate camp inmates who, like him, were Jewish, from Dachau.
Though some won medals for their service, many more were hounded out of the service because of their sexual orientation. Consult https://www.endracism.org for why we classify homophobia as a form of racism.

2010/05/04

“Cuddle Hormone” Experiments Challenge Gender Stereotypes

endracism Facing Racism gender, oxytocin, stereotypes 0

In My Fair Lady, Professor Henry Higgins—after linguistically reprogramming Cockney-speaking flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass as “a great lady”—exasperatingly asks: “Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man”? When he doesn’t get the answer he’s looking for and loses Eliza, he laments: “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.” It’s too late for Prof. […]

2010/04/15

Seba’s Story (for more information, visit museum at www.endracism.org)

endracism Encountering Racism Encountering Racism, end racism, household slaves, Racism, slavery 0

Visit museum at https://www.endracism.org
ENCOUNTERING RACISM: This is the third in a series, posted on endracism.com, of recollections by people from all walks of life on how they first experienced or witnessed prejudice and discrimination.

2010/04/12

David Brion Davis (visit museum at www.endracism.org)

endracism Encountering Racism Encountering Racism, Racism 17

**David Brion Davis is a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, which he founded in 1998 and directed until 2004.

2010/04/12

Frederick Douglass (c. 1818 to 1895), visit museum at www.endracism.org

endracism Encountering Racism, Thread end racism, Forms of Racism, Racism, Talbott County 0

Born in Talbott County, Maryland, Frederick Douglass (c. 1818 to 1895) was treated harshly by slave owners, yet managed to learn to read. After repeated attempts to escape to freedom, he successfully ran away in 1838 to become an eloquent platform orator and newspaper editor for abolition. He worked with President Lincoln during the Civil […]

2010/03/22

WARF’s “Person of the Decade”

hbrackman Thread 0

The World Against Racism Foundation (WARF) chooses its “Person of the Decade.” The choice is easy: Caster Semenya—the teenage track phenom who won in women’s 800m final of the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, only to be subjected to a battery of “sex verification tests” to determine whether or not she qualified to […]

2010/03/22

Israel

terasemfaith Thread 1

I think this Carterishness about Israel being apartheid is pure balderdash. Hello! There are countless thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel, there are Palestinian MKs, there are Palestinian professionals with Israeli clients inside Israel, etc. The problem is simple: The UN screwed up when it created two separate states, Israel and Palestine, out of one […]

2010/03/22

About:Blogmaster Harold Brackman

hbrackman Thread 0

Acting as Blog Master for the World Against Racism Foundation (WARF), I am a historian specializing in intergroup relations.

«‹ 2 3 4 5