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To Create Safer Spaces for Students, Teachers of Color Must Reckon With Our Settler Identity

ED Surge

Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. While 21% of teachers in Hawai’i are Japanese, only 10% have Native Hawaiian ancestry.

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Nature and outdoor play are staples of Norwegian culture.

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Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan

Anthropology News

Since the 1970s, Japanese society has increasingly relied on migrants to fill a variety of jobs, although the government has been slow to acknowledge or support them. Although the Japanese government does not record the religion of migrants living in Japan, scholars estimate that 230,000 Muslims are living there as of 2020.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II.