Passing the “Brown Paper Bag Test” in Segregated Schools
For many Mexican-American students growing up under the Jim Crow laws of the American Southwest in the 1950s, the question of what public school they would attend had little to …
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Chinese-Tibetan Relations
At the high school where I used to teach, students grouped themselves into “Yanks” and “Zoes.” Yanks were the African-American students. Zoe is a slang term to refer to a …
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