Generation R(ecession)<\/a><\/p>\n In the press this week were intriguing portraits of young people finishing high school during turbulent economic times, stories that individually — and especially collectively — illustrate the powerful ways in which starting points shape one’s life trajectory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Nouveau Poor, The Working poor<\/a> The New York Times has been lately consumed with profiling the straits that the obscenely rich have now plummeted to, now that they can no longer afford that extra yacht or whatever. Contrast that that, of course, with those of us whose health care is caput, or whose children are suddenly on free lunches, or who have lost their homes entirely….<\/a><\/p>\n Teaching With Urgency<\/a>The difference between teaching in a school with resources as opposed to a school with little or none. <\/p>\n Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration’s School “Turnaround” Plan<\/a> What I want to know, is how exactly does the United States expect to remain on top when it keeps squandering all its human resources like this? Commons sense would tell you that this is BS. Then again, educating the young does not make megabucks. Unlike creating weapons of mass destruction. <\/p>\n On the rec list for today is RaceWire<\/a> a blog that you all should be reading. Here’s a selection:<\/p>\n Food Inc. Shines a Light on the Immigrant Labor That Makes That 99c Patty Melt Possible [VIDEO]<\/a><\/p>\n University of California Regents Vote to Give Honorary Degrees to Interned Japanese American Students<\/a><\/p>\n Race Wire goes to teh Movies: Harry Potter Edition<\/a><\/p>\n What Race Really Has to Do with The CA Central Valley’s Fight for Water<\/a><\/p>\n While all of that is going on, Adam Sheppard, a college educated, able-bodied young white straight single American, decided to prove that you can too, pull yourself up by your bootstraps! (With a credit card in your back pocket just in case. And the ability to get off the experiment when your dad gets ill. But I digress.) Naturally, he got a book deal<\/a> I, having had quite enough of the BS, dug up the following series (sparked by teh wide interest in the introduction to the priviledge checklist to teh blogosphere) by Racialicious last year.Has Class Trumped Race Part 1<\/a> Part Two<\/a> Part Three<\/a> And they address some of his shenanigans here.Part Three Point Five<\/a> From the same period:Has Class Trumped Race?<\/a> From The Rickshaw Diaries<\/p>\n Book of the week: Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization<\/a> This is one of the best books on immigration that I have read so far. Here’s an interview with the author<\/a> and here’s an excerpt<\/a>. Have yourselves a good week!<\/p>\n\n
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