Here is a video for Hasbro’s Rose Petal Cottage. Could be good for discussing gender socialization:
Great find, Sherryl K.!
Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.
Archive: 2008
This graphic from the New York Times illustrates the different environmental costs of meat and vegetable production (click on image to enlarge):
Here is a website where you can quickly get U.S. Census Bureau data for a particular zip code. I use it to get information for my classes to help students make a connection to things we’re talking about sometimes. It has things like racial breakdown, educational levels, and average income.
This is a page out of an old school book, Maury’s New Complete Geography (1906). The plate is labeled “Race Types.” See the key at the bottom to which images are “caucasion,” “mongolian,” “malay,” and “ethiopian.” (You should be able to click on the image to see it larger.)
Super creepy TAB commercial:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBJ2ktSZpI[/youtube] Another doozy from Molly M!Here’s another on the same theme (youtube says it’s from the ’60s):[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVyDYqsEK0[/youtube] Here’s another from 1982:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGJvGhIzaw[/youtube] And this one, from 1984, cannot be beat for it’s essential ’80s vibe:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kymo2Vj6nw[/youtube]
Click here to watch a two-and-a-half minute video on CNN that addresses last year’s spate of race- and ethnicity-themed parties (see here). What is perhaps most amazing about it is the unbelievably impoverished analysis of what is happening and the fact that the video for some reason decides to end on an uplifting note (“their classmates had an important lesson on the danger of stereotyping”).
Thanks to Richard for this lead.
The coining of the term “frankenfood” to refer to genetically-modified (GM) food is an excellent example of the way in which words matter. As of today, a search for the word in google returns about 57,000 hits. It’s been quite an effective frame for the anti-GM food activists. Here are some examples of their work:
In her dissertation, Abby Kinchy discussed the way in which anti-GM food activists invented and used these frames to build support for their movement. In reality, though, (1) we’ve been genetically modifying food by other means for centuries (through cultivation) and (2) there is little evidence (yet) that such foods are all that dangerous.
Sources, in order, Green Acres Farm, Monsterzine, and Democratic Underground.
This graphic from the New York Times illustrates the different environmental costs of meat and vegetable production (click on image to enlarge):
Here is a website where you can quickly get U.S. Census Bureau data for a particular zip code. I use it to get information for my classes to help students make a connection to things we’re talking about sometimes. It has things like racial breakdown, educational levels, and average income.
This is a page out of an old school book, Maury’s New Complete Geography (1906). The plate is labeled “Race Types.” See the key at the bottom to which images are “caucasion,” “mongolian,” “malay,” and “ethiopian.” (You should be able to click on the image to see it larger.)
Super creepy TAB commercial:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBJ2ktSZpI[/youtube] Another doozy from Molly M!Here’s another on the same theme (youtube says it’s from the ’60s):[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVyDYqsEK0[/youtube] Here’s another from 1982:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGJvGhIzaw[/youtube] And this one, from 1984, cannot be beat for it’s essential ’80s vibe:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kymo2Vj6nw[/youtube]
Click here to watch a two-and-a-half minute video on CNN that addresses last year’s spate of race- and ethnicity-themed parties (see here). What is perhaps most amazing about it is the unbelievably impoverished analysis of what is happening and the fact that the video for some reason decides to end on an uplifting note (“their classmates had an important lesson on the danger of stereotyping”).
Thanks to Richard for this lead.
The coining of the term “frankenfood” to refer to genetically-modified (GM) food is an excellent example of the way in which words matter. As of today, a search for the word in google returns about 57,000 hits. It’s been quite an effective frame for the anti-GM food activists. Here are some examples of their work:
In her dissertation, Abby Kinchy discussed the way in which anti-GM food activists invented and used these frames to build support for their movement. In reality, though, (1) we’ve been genetically modifying food by other means for centuries (through cultivation) and (2) there is little evidence (yet) that such foods are all that dangerous.
Sources, in order, Green Acres Farm, Monsterzine, and Democratic Underground.