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• “Poca-Hotness” (NSFW)

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 726
  Pocahontas was not a sexy Indian princess, she was kidnapped (and possibly turned into a sex slave) at the age of 17.  After converting to Christianity while in captivity, she married an English man (John Rolfe, not Smith).  She died at 22. No matter.  Coed Magazine sees nothing but sexy potential in the ...
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• When will immigration be loved?

  
  The South Chicagoan — Authority: 124
  It was intriguing to learn of Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and his recent comments that the Democrats pushing for health care reform are eager to have the issue resolved before New Year’s Day. According to Durbin, Democrats are viewing 2009 as the year they focused on revamping the health care system so as to ...
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• THE STORY ON RACIST RABBI YITZHAK SHAPIRA CONTINUES

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 130
  I was immediately compelled by the Holy Spirit to reinforce the calls for peace made by an atheist on Facebook in her argument with a fellow atheist of hers. This may strike some who call themselves Christian as an anti-Christ activity, but I assure you that it is not. The female (Alex) is an Iranian. The other one is ...
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• How Race Colors American Presidential Election

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  How Race Colors American Presidential Election Anyone that still thinks that America is the bastion of democracy is naive. Anyone that thinks that racism in American politics has been done away withe based on the phenomenal rise and campaign of Ba rack Obama is not paying much attention to the many developments ...
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• Commercial Counts on the Idea that Nigeria is Corrupt

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 726
  Check out this fascinating commercial for Identity Guard, sent in by Brian T., that contrasts a serene, pristine, white world with a busy, dirty, black one: The commercial only “works” if people generally recognize the portrayal of Nigeria as a source of corruption.  It undermines this stereotype in the end, ...
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• Remember Fragilence

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  The Holocaust was one of the most horrible events in world history. It was an annihilation of Jewish people in Europe. Although the extermination of that group was the Nazi’s goal, they attacked many other groups and minorities as well. They included Gypsies, the mentally/physically challenged, and homosexuals. By ...
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• Yemen: A Civil or Proxy War?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  The ongoing war in Yemen certainly warrants coverage on Global Voices Online , but I was really shocked when I realized that there werent many bloggers interested in the conflict. Here are some scattered extracts from post written by bloggers from different countries. Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabye keeps a dairy ...
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• Co-Opting Asian Enlightenment for Marketing Purposes

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 726
  V. sent in this commercial that features a tired Asian stereotype and also co-opts the notion of enlightenment (from Buddhist and Hindu spirituality) and applies it to, um, dried versus frozen noodles. More examples of Asian stereotyping here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , ...
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• Azerbaijan: New Year

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Azerbaijan might still be a predominantly Muslim country, but Scary Azeri in Suburbs says that many of the trappings of Christmas in the West can be observed in its New Year festivities. The blog details how the holiday is spent in much of the former Soviet world .
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• Thanksgiving as "System Justification"

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Thanksgiving has many associations -- struggling Pilgrims, crowded airports, autumn leaves, heaping plates, drunken uncles, blowout sales, and so on. At its best, though, Thanksgiving is associated with, well, thanks giving. The holiday provides a moment when many otherwise harried individuals leading hectic lives ...
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• Review Time!!! :o)

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
        A few weeks ago Amy from Fair Haven Health sent my husband and I some things to try. I got the FertileCM and Hubby got the FertilAid for Men. This going to be a review on the FertileCM. Hubby’s review on the FertilAid for Men because he only started taking it last week. He was out of town when we received ...
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• Racism in Bull Durham Tobacco Ads

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 726
  I borrowed these two ads from Jim Crow History .  According to the site, Bull Durham tobacco was among the most recognizable trademarks in the world circa 1900.  These two ads include caricatures of “foolish looking or silly acting blacks to draw attention to its product”: For more historical U.S. ...
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• Lingerie As Liberating?

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 726
  Countering the argument that women that wear burkas need rescuing, some have argued that the constant pressure to reveal one’s body to the male gaze is at least as oppressive as being required to conceal it (see examples here and here ). Xavier M. sent in this German commercial for a line of lingerie that seems ...
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• Be Italian

  
  AJAX IN THE CITY — Authority: 131
  Be Italian. Oh, wait, you were probably thinking Nine. Do it!
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• Barbados, Guyana: Doctor Complicit?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 724
  Barbados Underground suggests that the doctor who examined the minor brutalised by Guyana police “was complicit in the torture…the concealment of a crime against humanity and…he possibly committed obstruction of justice.”
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• the politics of counting immigrants

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 124
  The Sacramento Bee  recently reported on a political battle unfolding over the 2010 Census that brings sociologists and demographers center stage.   The fight has begun over whether and how to count legal and illegal immigrants in the Census. The context:  Senator David Vitter of Louisiana wants only legal ...
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• The War for American Soil

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  The United States recognized the Native American’s as sovereign nations. This meant that the US government could create treaties and have paternalistic authority over the Natives. The US government has continuously harassed the Natives into giving up their lands and moving westwards for their own needs. This ...
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• The United States and Their Insatiable Need of Land

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  The United States recognized the Native Americans as sovereign nations. This meant that the US government could create treaties and have paternalistic authority over the Natives. The US government had continuously harassed the Natives into giving up their lands and moving westwards for its own needs.  In the ...
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• Female Criminality

  
  Feminist Legal Theory — Authority: 468
  Until the mid-1970s, women who commit crime was a subject unstudied and rarely acknowledged by dominant the field of criminology. Since then, the field has opened up considerably and some excellent and broad work has been done on the types of crimes women commit, and why they commit them (see scholars such as Carol ...
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• Steve King Can Only See Part Of America

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 479
  Congressman Steve King can only see a small portion of what the United States of America has been and is becoming. No matter what our individual ethnicities and cultural traditions are, we all need to have a truly representative government made up of people who are able and willing to work with the diversity of ...
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