(NAME-MCE) Name-mce Digest, Vol 505, Issue 1

mukh at email.sjsu.edu mukh at email.sjsu.edu
Mon Apr 23 13:54:35 EDT 2007 

The racial lens is incredibly pervasive.
So pervasive that the gender one is virtually invisible.
Or...is the racial one used to keep the gender one invisible?
Of course.......it was "he"....
Why aren't we discussing/examining the pervasiveness of male violence across 
all ethnicities...
Well...some folks are.
I strongly recommend the video "Tough Guise" produced by Media Education 
Resources, which does a lot of other outstanding videos, looking at "stories" 
told in popular media and internalized by youth.
They also did the recent analysis of Hip Hop music...

Carol Mukhopadhyay

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>    1. Re:  Asian students and your college's response to the	recent
>       tragedy (CGooden117 at aol.com)
>    2. Re:  Asian students and your college's response to the
>       recenttragedy (Reed, Jenifer Erin)
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> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:08:05 EDT
> From: CGooden117 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: (NAME-MCE) Asian students and your college's response to
> 	the	recent tragedy
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> This is a powerful peace and it brought back so many memories for me as I  
> prayed, "Please, don't let it be somebody Black"  over the years when 
> terrible 
> crimes had been committed. Brother Abdullah is certainly right on the  mark 
> with his comments. As we say, "I feel ya'."
>  
> But, what does this now say to us?  In this country, even in 2007, the  
> prophetic statement of  W.E.B. DuBois, who famously identified the problem 
> of the 
> 20th century as "the problem of the color line,"   has not really changed.
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> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:27:22 -0500
> From: "Reed, Jenifer Erin" <jreed22 at uis.edu>
> Subject: Re: (NAME-MCE) Asian students and your college's response to
> 	the	recenttragedy
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> I had never thought about the backlash that Asian students especially the
> ones studying from out of their home country are receiving.  This has really
> opened my eyes to what the world is really like especially here in our
> country.  I just don't get why every time a person of a non-white race
> commits a crime that all of that race has to suffer.  When a white person
> commits a crime you never hear about the prejudices against the race.  I
> don't understand why this is happening.
>  
> I wish there were more answers.
>  
> Jenifer Reed
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> Subject: (NAME-MCE) Asian students and your college's response to the
> recenttragedy
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> From: Jonathan Kaplan [mailto:jkaplan3 at pratt.edu]
> Sent: Thu 4/19/2007 7:13 AM
> Subject: Asian students and your college's response to the recent tragedy
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> In the wake of the recent tragedy, we have been overwhelmed by
> sadness, grief, and disbelief.  The members of our campus community at
> Pratt have expressed much concern and support for our friends and
> colleagues at Virginia Tech.  Along those lines, Chris, please do not
> hesitate to reach out to me or others within AUCCCD.  We are here to
> support each other, and we would like to help in whatever way we can.
> Even if you are overwhelmed by offers of support to manage the recent
> crisis, we can help in other ways, like taking more mundane matters
> off your plate (e.g., editing a brochure, researching a policy, etc.).
> 
> As we consider our own college's response to the crisis, I wanted to
> make others within AUCCCD aware of the fear and shame that have
> surfaced within the Korean and Asian communities.  Here at Pratt, I
> have heard reports that our Korean international students are worried
> about a possible racial backlash against them.  Despite the fact that
> Cho Seung-Hui was not an international student, members of this group
> of students also have expressed a deep sense of shame.  Other Asian
> and Asian American students might be experiencing some of these
> feelings as well.  To help provide some information and background
> about these issues, I have provided some useful links below:
> 
> "Let it be some other Asian"-News article by Andrew Lam of New American
> Media
> 
> http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?
article_id=e3b9c4941f9d849f9358ddb3dbbbe5a3
> 
> NPR story about the reactions of Koreans, Korean Americans, and Asian
> Americans
> 
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9647417
> 
> Touching commentary by NPR's Robert Siegel who expressed that Cho was
> "one of us"
> 
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9658225
> 
> Press release by the Asian American Psychological Association
> 
> http://www.aapaonline.org/conventions/news.htm
> 
> Thanks for considering these issues as you provide support for your
> own college's students in response to the Virginia Tech. tragedy.  At
> Pratt, we are planning a specific outreach program to our
> international students-most of whom are Asian-co-facilitated by our
> Office of International Affairs.  If others are planning similar kinds
> of workshops or activities, please e-mail me so that we might share
> our expertise and thoughts for coordinating the discussion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
> 
> Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
> Associate Director for Counseling
> Health and Counseling Services
> Pratt Institute
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> Brooklyn, NY  11205
> Phone:  718-399-4542
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