Category Archives: gender

Communities of Possibilities

By yvonnegrapher | Published: October 1, 2009
This was first published on RaceWire. The concept of community is an ever-shifting one. It first becomes applied to movements for social change after World War II, when a dissatisfied social worker Saul Alinksy shifted his efforts into organizing urban communities, based on geographic proximity. He was the first recognizable community organizer that developed a model beyond [...]
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A Tale of Race and Recovery

By yvonnegrapher | Published: September 30, 2009
via RaceWire It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.* The Obama administration enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) back in February, the largest boon to public spending and [...]
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Happy Birthday, Yuri Kochiyama

By yvonnegrapher | Published: May 19, 2009
Born on May 19, 1921, Yuri grew up in a white middle class suburb of San Pedro, California. Her life was irreparably changed when Pearl Harbor was bombed. She and her family were forcibly removed from their homes and interned at detention camps setup for Japanese Americans during World War II. There, Yuri connected the [...]
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Sociology of Board Games

By yvonnegrapher | Published: May 15, 2009
Sociological Images recently posted pictures taken at a toy store of board games targeted towards girls.  Of course, they’re pink.  The box of Scrabble spells out “f-a-s-h-i-o-n” and girls’ Monopoly comes in a pink, velvet-lined jewelry box where you can keep game pieces. A dissertation should be written on the sociology of board games, if there [...]
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