I’m still digging into my pile of scraps of paper. From the Los Angeles Times section called The Homeroom the name of post is called Science: not a black or brown option. That got my attention.  The instructor was trying to get students to imagine a world without Anglo Americans. It is a short post, go read it and then come back.

Southern California teacher Karen Salazar has been let go from Jordan High School because she was "brainwashing" students with an Afrocentric curriculum. Salazar's mentor, a veteran teacher assigned to her, disagrees:

This week I went looking in the Latina blogophere for posts on books and film. On The Latina (L)it Girl, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez comments on TV, culture, and mainstream media images of Latinos in the U.S.. She is excited to see a new family drama, Cane, coming out on CBS; one that doesn't stereotype Latinos as scary gang members; instead, as "Latinos without cheesy accents, educated, easily bilingual, smart."