The Joy of Books
Last year, some crazy people made this:
Now, they're back with this:
Isn't it awesome?
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Not the Revolution...
... but Photographs of Your Junk (will be publicized!).
Black doll, white doll - not just an experiment
In the 1950s, in a racially segregated US, psychologist Kenneth Clark performed an experiment with black kids. He wanted to measure the impact of racism on their self-image. They had to choose between a black doll and a white doll. Now, 50 years later, someone repeated the experiment. The video below (in English) is of that experiment, with some footage from the original test. It’s an excerpt from a short documentary called ‘A Girl Like Me’ by Kiri Davis (which you can watch here).
If that doesn't make you feel old...
... I don't know what will!
Nine Years as a Middle-Eastern-American
And there was me — a non-Muslim, who has publicly criticized certain Islamic practices — flaccidly battling for Muslims worldwide. It got to the point that I was telling people I didn’t even know that their opinions were making my life downright “unlivable.”
Moving piece in the New York Times by Porochista Khakpour.