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Culture/Identity/History: The blog of Detroit, Michigan poet and educator Aurora Harris, B.A; M.A. Notes, news, poetry; Ms Harris' reading and speaking schedule, education and research links; family history, and community work.
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Advocacy. My Other Blog: Detroit Parents With Special Ed Students
The Academic Question: What Does An African American Filipina Scholar-Activist-Poet Do?
- I'm a Water Rights Activist and Co-founder of We The People of Detroit
- I'm the President of the Filipino American National Historical Society-MI Chapter
- I'm a Board Member of Detroit's Broadside Lotus Press
- Chet White Radio Interview with In The Tradition Jazz
- In The Tradition Jazz: Band I Record Poems With/ CD's & Radio Interviews
- Aurora's John Coltrane Poems on Radio Free Amsterdam
- Depiction of what my Mother witnessed and escaped from during WWll invasion of the Philippines. ( site contains graphic war victim photos. please read web masters notes)
- Filipino Brigadier General Macario Peralta Jr. (Mom's first cousin, also 13th Secretary of Defense)
- Tunica, Mississippi, "Sugar Ditch", Where my Father was born and elders escaped being lynched. Once called America's Zimbabwe or Ethiopia in the 1980's. (New York Times' Tunica Journal)
- Dr. Gloria House Interview part 2
- Michele Gibbs (Russell): From The Field- Oaxaca, Mexico
- Lolita Hernandez: Autopsy Of An Engine Reviews
- Emily Lawsin's Web site
- Filipino Mother Tongue education site
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- Education: Aurora's Project: Part 1: Biracial Filipinos/as and Filipino/a videos from YouTube (1)
- Education: Aurora's Project: Part 2. Abandoned Children of American Soldiers (1)
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- Education: Aurora's Project: Part 4. Brazil (1)
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- Education: Declaration Against Racism by MI Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion (1)
- Education: Film- Fall of The International Hotel (1)
- Education: Fresh Food South Central L.A. Urban Farm (1)
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- Education: Jazz Notes Part 3 Filipina Jazz by Charmaine Clamor (1)
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- On dialects (1)
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- Poetry: Ron Allen- Metro Times Article (1)
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Aurora Harris
Aurora's 2009 Master's Research Paper: Info gained from research and the Participants' Interviews
- 1965 WATTS WRITERS Workshop
- A Retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement: Political and Intellectual Landmarks by Morris, A.D. (1999)
- AAUP: Academe Online: "Faculty Activism: The Ivory Tower and Scholar Activism" by Donald Earl Collins
- Akasha Gloria Hull- "Creatvity, Black Feminist Roots and Human Revolution." (Video 55 mins; University of California TV)
- Asian Pacfic American's Social Movements and Interest Groups (Geron, K., de la Cruz, E., Saito, L., and Singh, J.; 2001)
- Civil Rights Actvist Yuri Kochiyama on her internment and Malcom X's Assassination (YK was mentioned in Dr. House's intvw. This link is Democracy Now intvw from 2008)
- Detroit Asian Youth Project ( Emily Lawsin)
- Detroit Summer, A Program of Grace Boggs' Boggs Center (Emily Lawsin)
- Detroit's Chinatown History and Revitalization effort
- Detroit: Transformation of Education at Wayne County Community College: "Black-Eyed Blues Connections: Teaching Black Women" by Michele Russell in Women's Studies Newsletter, Vol 4, No 4 (Fall 1976), pp. 6-7 (jstor doc)
- Detroit: Transformation of Education through Otto Feinstein and the College of Lifelong Learning for Auto Workers and Prison Program at Jackson State Prison that granted degrees to prisoners
- Dr. Gloria House's Interview Part 1 on www.changingsociety.org
- Early Black Feminist Studies; The Womanist Movement: "Who's Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bringing of the Everyday into Acdeme, or Why We Started The Womanist" by Layli Phillips and Barbara McCaskill in Signs, Vol. 20, No 4, Postcolonial, Emergent, and Indigenous Feminisms (Summer, 1995) pp.1007-1018 (jstor doc)
- Early Black Feminist work: "Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair: An Open Letter to White Women in the Academy" by Michele Russell in College English, Vol 39, No.1 (Sep., 1977) pp.45-42 (jstor doc)
- George P. Rawick's "From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community" at Amazon.com
- Glenn Omatsu's "Student Leadership Training Booklet" ( Concept of Shared Leadership - E. Lawsin intvw)
- Gramsci and Marxist Theory. "Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci" by Chantal Mouffe; 1979 ( Google books)
- Groundbreaking Women: Inspirations and Trailblazers (Polnick, B., Reed, D., Funk, C., and Edmonson, S.; 2004)
- How The Civil Rights Movement Revitalized Labor Militancy (Isaac, L., and Christensen, L.; 2002)
- Non-Aligned Movement History (115 Countries)
- Overcoming Injustice: A Tradition of Resilience by Joanne Chesley (2005)
- Society Must Be Defended: lectures at the College de France 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault (Google books. See Jan 7, 1976 lecture on power, localized histories and subjugated knowledge)
- We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition To The United Nations For Relief From A Crime Of The United States Government Against The Negro People
Contributors
Aurora's Publication and Poetry Related Links on The Internet
- Abandoned Automobile Google Books pg 148 excerpt of Jitterbug, Jazz and the Graystone
- As Incoming Chair of The Diversity Committee of National Writers Union, we worked on "Building Strength Through Diversity" a handbook.
- Aurora's first publication in a Feminist journal: U of M's Michigan Feminist Studies no. 12. "Dichotomy" poem; pgs 44-46, 1997-1998
- Detroit National Poetry Slam Team wins in 2002. Metro Times Article
- From 2008: Aurora read with Jessica Care Moore at U of D-Mercy's Grounds Coffee House
- Gold Dollar Historical Schedule: Where I performed and ran Poetry Slams
- My "On Deaf Ears" poem on YouTube on Shani Parker's Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
- New Working Class Studies by John Russo & Sherry Lee Linkon. Re: Race and Labor- "Dream 1:10-1:25 a.m. August 22, 1997 for my father" poem; pp.127-128 (Google Books)
- On Language and Dialect (how I lost my Filipino accent and Castilian lisp) poem in Educational Studies: A Journal Of The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Vol 40 Issue 2, pgs 122-123
- Poetry Slam Camp at SUNY ( see former faculty at bottom of pg)
- Shrinking Cities Exhibit: Slam Poets From D in D Poetry Slam Film ( still on tour)
- Tilting The Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing ( 4 poems)
Suggested readings: Scholarly Articles and Books
- AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. http://www.nyupress.org/webchapters/0814775802intro.pdf
- Cries of The Spirit: A Celebration Of Women's Spirituality; Marilyn Sewell Ed. 1991
World News, Television and Radio
- African Hip Hop artists, news and music
- Asian Hip Hop Summit in Vancouver (2009 article)
- Black Tokyo Video and Magazine
- CoLours TV Channel 9407 Dish Satellite station
- Dateline Philippines online news
- Encode Media's Decode Magazine online
- Filipino And World Music on Surfmusic
- Haiti. Article from Global Research
- National Minority Consortia Public Broadcasting
Educator / Teaching Resources
- 2007 Detroit Hmong National Conference doc
- A Conversation With E. San Juan Jr. (Filipino Cultural Theorist)
- A Generation of Women Activists: African American Female Educators
- About Tagalog Language & Dialects in Philippines
- Abstract. "Race, Class and Nation Revisited: The AfroAsian Critique of Trans/National Democracy" by Janice Tanemura
- African Languages By Country
- Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization UNESCO Report contribution re Education
- AfroAsian, Mixed race, multiracial Asian Americans
- After Mecca: Women Poets & The Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke; 2005.
- Ai the Poet's Work
- Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America
- Asian American Poetry at Kundiman
- Asian American Women Writers
- Asian Immigration- Center For The Study of The Pacific Northwest (curriculum PDF )
- Asians In Detroit. 2007 Hmong National Conference (an egov.USDA.gov doc)
- Bengali Poetry Site: Shabdagucha Journal
- Blacks and Asians in Cross-Community Work
- Broadside Press Poet Nicolas Guillen
- Carribean Anthologies With Poems by Poets from Trinidad and Tobago
- Center For Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers
- Detroit: 2010 US Social Forum Detroit Committees
- Dr. Marimba Ani: YURUGU
- Filipino / Pinoy Literature ( webmanila.com link)
- Filipino Creation Myths
- FREEDOM SCHOOL Curriculum of the Civil Rights Movement
- History Orb: Today In Algerian History
- History Orb: Today In Philippine History (site has other countries)
- History Orb: Today In South African History
- History Orb: Today in Spanish History
- Hmong Culture and History resource list
- Hmong Studies Journal on Facebook
- Immigration Laws Lesson Plans (K-12). "The New Americans" PBS Independent Lens
- Mavin Foundation. A site for biracial and multiracial people
- Modern American Poetry
- National Alliance of Black School Educators
- Negrismo and Negritude Movements (PDF)
- Negritude Movement Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Google books doc)
- Poet June Jordan
- Poet Lucille Clifton on poetryfoundation.org
- SocialText. "The Filipina's Breast: SAVGERY, DOCILITY, and THE EROTICS of the AMERICAN EMPIRE" by Nerissa S. Balce
- Texas Beyond History site: South Plains Inhabitants
- What's The Deal With "naked savages" ?
- White Privelege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Education: RESEARCH RESOURCES
- 1924 Filipino Strike Oral History Project from University of Hawaii
- 1924 Immigration Act of The United States
- African American History Timeline
- African American Policy Forum
- American Education History Timeline
- Applied Research Center
- Asian American History Timeline
- Black Males In College (diverseeducation.com article)
- Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders
- Center For The Study and Research of African Women in Cinema
- Center on Instruction: How To Teach Reading
- Council of Women World Leaders
- Critical Race Theory Resource Guide
- CRT; "The Constructed Identities of Asian and African Americans: The Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System" by Sheila A. Bedi (Harvard law doc)
- DEVELOPMENT: EDIS UK
- Education Reform (PBS Teachers "Learning Now" link)
- Education Rights, a column in In Motion Magazine by Pedro Noguera PhD
- Filipino American National Historical Society
- Filipino Americans In Seattle
- Filipinos That Arrived at Ellis Island
- Global Research
- Henry A. Giroux Website with online Articles
- International Gender Studies Resources (UC-Berkeley)
- Labor Movements in Philippines (Phil E-Library)
- Philippine American Community Center of MI
- Shrinking Cities: Urban Research on Detroit & European Cities that have lost populations,
- Social Movements & Culture: Art Activism
- Social Movements & Culture: Asian American & Pacific Islander
- Social Movements & Culture: Civil Rights
- Social Movements & Culture: Women's & Feminist
- U of M: Asian / Pacific Islander American Studies list
- United Nations Girls Education Initiative
- Women and the Prison Industrial Complex: The Criminalization of Gender, Race and Class in the "War on Drugs" by Brittney Mazza (essay; dialogues.rutgers.edu link)
- Women and the Prison Industrial Complex: The Criminalization of Gender, Race and Class in the "War on Drugs" by Brittney Mazza (essay; dialogues.rutgers.edu link)
How many African countries can you name? N other games
Jazz: Music I Like, Artists I've Performed With or Wrote Poems About
- Graystone Jazz Museum ( where my World Voice Literary Series ran from 1995-2002). http://www.ipl.org/div/detjazz/Bands.html
- Interview of Victoria Alexander; saxophonist http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-google#/watch?v=vI8kYYm0Sac&client=mv-google
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