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69“A Black Boy Even Taller than Ron”: Racial dynamics in Harry Potter
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by Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D. Note: An earlier version of this paper was published by BenBella Books in The Psychology of Harry Potter, under the title "Harry Potter and the Word that Shall Not Be Named." ... published 2 months ago
64When the teacher is racist, what's a student to do?
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by Mikhail Lyubansky About five years ago, the student newspaper of my undergraduate alma mater ran a story documenting the online activities of a teaching assistant that could be reasonably categorized as... published 2 weeks ago
60The (racial) truth in popular fiction's lie
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Recent films such as X-Men and Harry Potter have explicitly taken on racial issues and race relations. As a result, important issues such as blood purity, group prejudice, and even eugenics have become part of the dialogue – both online and at the kitchen table. With several more Harry Potter and X-Men films currently in production, these themes are likely to remain in our cultural dialogue for the foreseeable future. But what exactly does a popular franchise like the X-Men teach about race and published 3 months ago
59Bluffing Hot Rod, Or How I Became Interested In Race Relations
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by Mikhail Lyubansky (2006) “Yo man. Let me get this straight. You teach five hours a week and they pay you 50 G’s?” It wasn’t a rhetorical question. Calvin, who as far I know answers only to... published 3 months ago
64Pretty Little Girls
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by Mikhail Lyubansky The current national debate on immigration reminds me of a story Alex Haley tells in the epilogue to The Autobiography of Malcolm X. In the story, Haley is standing with Malcolm at the... published 3 months ago
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