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Sat Jul 4

• Fans overlook Michael Jackson's dark side | U.S. | Reuters: "I think we can multi-task when it comes to our cultural icons," said Jefferson. "We can live simultaneously with their enormous talent, be it a Michael Jackson, or a Marlon Brando or a Judy Garland or an Elvis. And we can live with the knowledge of the enormous damage that they did to themselves, that was done to them, and that they did to other people."
• We Are All Racists At Heart - WSJ.com
• Newspaper Rock -- Where Native America Meets Pop Culture
• 'Queue jumping immigrants' are a myth, says study - Home News, UK - The Independent: "The claim that immigrants jump the queue for council houses will be exposed as a myth next week by an exhaustive national survey."

Fri Jul 3

• The Psychology of Beauty: Using scanned, rotating 3D images of Caucasian female figures as stimuli and attractiveness ratings made by Chinese students, Fan and colleagues (2004) published the following scatter plot (these plots show the male ratings only ? there was no significant difference in the female ratings) of WHR and attractiveness rating (AR):
• "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" - presentation by danah boyd at Personal Democracy Forum 2009, NY: details a digital migration (myspace to facebook) that mirrors "white flight"..
• Clergy: Baptist Seminary Discriminates  | : One of the colleges at my graduate school seems to be in some hot water. Racism within the Graduate Theological Union is pretty much an everyday occurrence. "The American Baptist Seminary of the West (ABSW), located in Berkeley, has a rich history in theology dating as far back as its founding in 1871. However, lately, the institution is receiving attention in the community due to charges of racism that are being raised by students. Students are charging that ABSW, one of nine charter institutions of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, has been driving out highly qualified and well-respected racial-ethnic professors. Further, students say that when they asked to meet with the administration to discuss their concerns, their requests were denied."
• NAACP comic from early 1960s - Boing Boing: A new specimen from Ethan Persoff's "Comics with Problems" archives: Early NAACP Comic Book History - Your Future Rests In Your Hands and The Street Where You Live (1960 and 1964)
• washingtonpost .com: Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides
• Marty Nemko: "What it's Like to Teach Black Students?": For those of you with children, better a smaller house in a white district than a fancy one near a black school.

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