http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/ The database houses documents, photographs, audio, and visual resources for the course at Boston Latin. Browse materials as well as submit materials to be filed in the cabinet. en-us 2008-11-16T21:49:16-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003373.html COMPLETE TEXT OF ALABAMA'S SLAVERY APOLOGY May 25, 2007 The complete text of the slavery apology resolution approved by the Alabama Legislature on Thursday: WHEREAS, slavery has been documented as a worldwide practice since antiquity, dating back to 3500 B.C.... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-11-16T21:49:16-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003372.html WRITING IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, ""AMISTAD'' midwife Debbie Allen described the Joseph Cinque saga as ""a little drop in a big bucket of blood memory we need to share with the world.'' Allen's implicit assumption is that ""Amistad'' is not enough,... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-11-16T21:24:50-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003371.html THERE IS a simple reason American presidents will not apologize for slavery. An apology for the past means asking white Americans to take responsibility for the present. One hundred and forty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that remains a task... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-11-16T21:22:52-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003370.html For nations, like people, distant memory of trauma can be submerged and repressed but never extinguished. It surfaces in words, in politics and sometimes in the movies. In the middle of Steven Spielberg's new film, ""Amistad,'' which opens next week,... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-11-16T21:21:06-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003369.html SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders. The man with a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-11-16T21:19:00-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003368.html Reparations for American blacks was a sideline issue for most African Americans until the publication of Randall Robinson's The Debt. The book helped bring the reparations debate to a larger audience, introducing the wider black community and general American population... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-11-16T21:10:00-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003367.html For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help. * White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-10-19T22:26:03-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003366.html Don't Call This Country "America" How the name was hijacked and why it matters today by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, courtesy of Z Magazine If ever there was a time to break the habit of calling this country “America,” as if... Identity freemanjud 2008-10-19T08:34:12-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003365.html One evening last month a wholesome-looking college student with long, straight hair took the floor of the UC-Berkeley Student Senate and began speaking as if she were delivering a sixth-grade book report. She had been researching one of her fellow... Bystanders freemanjud 2008-09-07T19:32:35-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003363.html A few years ago, I sat down to read Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950’s New York, by the novelist Anne Bernays and her husband, the biographer Justin Kaplan. I was cruising along, as calmly as you please, when... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-08-27T09:01:15-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003360.html The year-long 50th-birthday party for this pioneering suburb on Long Island is winding down. The parade drew 5,000 marchers. Crowds came for candlelight church services, an antique-car show, exhibits, seminars and tours of the fabled Levitt houses that started it... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-08-26T10:23:57-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003359.html Review of GIVE ME MY FATHER'S BODY: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo. by Kenn Harper. Foreword by Kevin Spacey. Illustrated. 277 pp. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press. $24. Given the arrangements of power on the planet in... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-08-26T00:16:44-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003358.html STEPHEN KINZER France's role in the Rwandan genocide By Stephen Kinzer | August 14, 2008 IS THE defendant's dock at the International Criminal Court reserved for leaders of small and poor countries that defy the West? Not if Rwanda has... Rwandan genocide freemanjud 2008-08-17T22:55:32-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003357.html The Games Began. Hearts Swelled. By EDWARD WONG BEIJING — The flags were everywhere when I returned home. I had been reporting in the western desert right before the start of the Olympic Games, and in the 48 hours I... Nationalism freemanjud 2008-08-17T22:27:27-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003356.html Deep inside a data dump by the Census Bureau last week was a startling racial projection: By midcentury, the United States will be home to 80 million more white people. Never mind, for a moment, that the bureau also predicts... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2008-08-17T22:26:24-05:00