It’s hard for me to get my head around the fact that it’s been more than a quarter century since the year 2000 publication of my book, The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity. In that book I proposed a framework for looking at the mass media as a sprawling, multifaceted informal educational curriculum that competes with schools in the teaching process. Whether or not media makers think of themselves as teachers is irrelevant. Once they create media, their products become sources from which people learn.
As the title suggests, the book focused on the theme of diversity. I argued that the mass media provide a form of informal public multicultural education through the ways they depict groups, portray intergroup interactions, and publicly examine how institutions and organizations interact with diversity. Continue reading Renewing Diversity Part 16: Revisiting ‘The Children Are Watching’ – by Carlos Cortés
Our country’s government is again in danger. The white supremacists and neo-Nazis who conspired to meet Hitler’s long-term goal of Ordis Templar, Circa 2000 are mostly long-gone. But many of them have recruited, groomed and brainwashed next-generation children and other recruits to fulfill their insanely grandiose goal – specifically, of taking over the US government from the inside-out. And making it an Aryan-run government that would eventually lead the world.
“Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race