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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Whether shifting across geographies, languages, or systems, migration determines what knowledge endures and what is left behind. It dictates what is carried forward, what is altered, and what fades into obscuritynot through natural decay, but through deliberate and structural choices. It is not just about movementit is about survival.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. on March 21, 2021.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In October 2020, while networking with Chris Bacon (former UGRR Director) and Mike Broccolo (former educational specialist), we developed a mini-service learning project.

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How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflict

The Hechinger Report

While elementary students may be too young to understand the emotional, historical and moral debates surrounding Israel and Palestine, he said, they can build a basic understanding of the region’s geography, the history of how and why Israel was created, and why Palestinians feel like they have been “trapped in ghettos.”

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Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop

Sapiens

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. In late 2020, Netflix released Operation Christmas Drop , a holiday love story with Guams breathtaking beaches as backdrops.

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