... space where children from different backgrounds can mingle and interact, and hopefully through their shared experiences develop cross-race friendships. Thus, the education system plays a crucial role in sowing the seeds of multi -racial relationships. However, a National Institute of Education research team has found that children tend to have friends of their own race, sticking together during recess and out of the ... . Teachers have to be actively involved in the attempts to deepen racial bonds among their students. As a teacher, I would try to work towards this goal by starting an Ar...

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Reading the critiques of feminism from African-American women's views added made me think about feminism and race in a different way. I had read some of bell hooks before and other articles regarding women and race, but in this unit I particularly enjoyed reading the selection from the Combahee River Collective, and Aida Hurtado. The Combahee River Collective blame the American political system, which is based on white males, as the root of their oppression racially and sexually. I like the statement made under " What We Believe" where the women state, " We realize the only people who care eno...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... complete. According to Quindlen the real American is "a pilgrim with a small "p"". Being an American does not mean being white and having ancestors from the original thirteen colonies, but rather being multi-ethnic. Many Americans have mixed nationality or were born in America as a second generation of some ethnic group. In other words, most of us Americans are immigrants from one country ... , but still is separate and individual. All immigrants resident in America, most of them speak English in public, but at home they speak their own language and practice their own cultural traditions...

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