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Connie

I am an Associate Professor of Psychology at Muhlenberg College, and a social psychologist. I teach the Contemporary Racism seminar once a year. I typically don't post blog entries myself, except for short asides or links to news articles or other relevant material. Occasionally we have a guest blogger, and I will post his or her contribution under my name. Otherwise, all the blog authors are current and former students.

Japanese American Civil Rights Hero Dies

01/25/201601/05/2012 by Connie

Gordon Hirabayashi refused to go to a WWII internment camp in 1942. He died on Monday at the age of 93. Read more about his story here.

Gordon Hirabayashi, center, in 1999 at the former prison camp in Arizona where he was held for about a year. The camp was later renamed for him.

Categories history Tags civil rights, internment camps, japan, WWII

Tar Baby

05/23/201408/02/2011 by Connie

Did you know that “tar baby” is racially offensive? Have you ever heard the expression?

Republican: Working with Obama Like Touching a Tar Baby | TPM LiveWire.

People’s reactions (in the comments) are interesting, and a few explain more about the etiology of “tar baby.” Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah…

Categories history, politics Tags tar baby
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