Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism
Ken Green’s One Man Parade
Ken Green (b. 1964) used to be a graphic artist for the Department of Children and Family Services in Chicago, and was perhaps the funniest slam poet on the Chicago scene, until…(see below). Though he was not the youngest writer … Continue reading
The Empty Center and the International Style – Part 2
This is Part 2 of a talk I gave in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the Asian Studies Development Programs’ 9th Annual National Conference in 2003. It deals with the efforts of “Third World” writers to develop a “national culture.” READ PART … Continue reading
The “White Man’s Burden” in Toons
I had forgotten that Rudyard Kipling wrote his remarkably racist and smug poem to encourage Americans as they took over my homeland, the Philippines. The “burden” white men take up is the burden of civilizing the world. “Take up the … Continue reading