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Category Archives: Civil rights
Robert Reich shares this important message from Liz Cheney
Friends, I’m told that the following message, which I received earlier today, purporting to be from Liz Cheney, is a hoax. She didn’t sent it. It’s an excellent and important message nonetheless. (If you know who did send it, give … Continue reading
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Update and Catch Up
It has been a while since I posted here. For the past year and a half I have been exploring other platforms for this blog and without mentioning names or details (except that I was rather disappointed with the results and support). … Continue reading
A Case Study About Creating Graphic Novels in the Classroom
Thinking about problems arising from the lack of understanding about the very real trials and tribulations caused by forced migrations, and trying to adjust to a new land, new customs and new ways of living, I thought back to this … Continue reading
There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part II
One of the first examples of a graphic narrative about an immigrant’s experience is literature is The Four Immigrants Manga (1931), written and illustrated by Henry Kiyama, 1885-1951). The book went out of print and was lost until it was translated … Continue reading
There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part 1
From Wikipedia: “…diaspora is used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, most notably the Jews who were dispersed from the Land of Israel in antiquity” So I am a member of this … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Civil rights, Comics, David Greenfield Dissertation, Education, Graphic Medicine, Graphic Novels, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Israeli Christians, Israeli Jews, Israeli Muslims, Jews, John Lewis, Joseph Kony, Learning, March, Middle East Peace, Multi-cultural America, Palestine, Paracuellos, Project-based learning, Social Justice, War
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View from the blog, looking at a sad couple of weeks
To say that the past two weeks have been an emotional roller-coaster is a bit of an understatement as I watched and listened to a litany of people (mostly old, white men) in their heads-down rush to strangle, or at … Continue reading
Comics against Hitler
How Jewish comic book artists led the fight to break the silence on the Holocaust https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-jewish-comic-book-artists-led-the-fight-to-show-the-holocaust-1.6462797
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The search for super heroes at LB ComicCon
As I recently walked in to Long Beach Comic Con, I contemplated my tradition of identifying and searching for one specific thing. When I saw my first SpiderMan, I knew that I wanted to look for super heroes. Not the … Continue reading
Travels with David, or the good neighbor policy in action
I grew up on the east side of Los Angeles, in a town called Montebello, a pretty cool place to grow up. It was primarily a middle-class town, filled with working class people. There were attorneys, carpenters, carpet people, clerks, … Continue reading
Comics and Educational Technology?
That was the gist of question that a friend asked me this week. A meandering conversation at a cafe led to me THE question: What’t the connection between my professional activities as an educational technologist, and my dissertation about teaching about … Continue reading