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Making Curriculum from Scratch: "Testimonio" in an Urban Classroom
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Cruz, Cindy – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
"Testimonio," as a genre of the dispossessed, the migrant, and the queer, is a response to larger discourses of nation-building and has the potential to undermine the larger narratives that often erase and make invisible the expendable and often disposable labor and experiences of immigrants, the working class, African Americans, and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Thinking, Immigrants, Curriculum Development
Strategies for Managing Racism and Homophobia among U.S. Ethnic and Racial Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men
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Choi, Kyung-Hee; Han, Chong-suk; Paul, Jay; Ayala, George – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2011
Despite widespread recognition that experiences of social discrimination can lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes for members of minority groups, little is known about how U.S. ethnic minority men who have sex with men (MSM) manage their experiences of racism and homophobia. We conducted six focus group discussions (n = 50) and 35…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Pacific Islanders, Focus Groups, Coping
Spatializing Sexuality in Jaime Hernandez's "Locas"
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Jones, Jessica E. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2009
Focusing on Jaime Hernandez's "Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories," part of the "Love and Rockets" comic series, I argue that the graphic landscape of this understudied comic offers an illustration of the theories of space in relation to race, gender, and sexuality that have been critical to understandings of Chicana…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Hispanic Americans, Urban Areas, Females
Homeless Gay and Transgender Youth of Color in San Francisco: "No One Likes Street Kids"--Even in the Castro
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Reck, Jen – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
This study, focused on five transgender and gay youth of color from San Francisco, explored how family problems, poverty, homophobia, and transphobia propelled them into homelessness and made gay-friendly spaces and resources especially meaningful to them. These young people describe seeking support in San Francisco's well-known gay enclave, the…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Family Problems, Homeless People, Young Adults
Hate Crime in the 1980's: A Decade of Bigotry. A Report to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Hatcher, Bunny Nightwalker – 1990
A report on hate-crimes in the 1980s in Los Angeles County (California) found that these acts had increased in number. Hate crimes are defined as criminal acts directed at an individual, institution, or business expressly because of race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Over the period 1980 to 1989, religiously motivated hate crimes…
Descriptors: Blacks, Ethnic Discrimination, Hate Crime, Homosexuality
Hate Crime in Los Angeles County 1990. A Report to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Hatcher, Bunny Nightwalker – 1991
A report on 1990 hate crimes in Los Angeles County (California) found 275 racially motivated hate crimes, 150 religiously motivated hate crimes, and 125 sexual orientation hate crimes. The data were collected primarily from law enforcement and community agencies. Of the racially motivated crimes, most were aimed at Blacks, followed by Asians. Jews…
Descriptors: Arabs, Asian Americans, Blacks, Ethnic Discrimination