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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Part I focuses on establishing sound personal health practices, increasing awareness of body language, learning principles of stress management, time management and setting priorities. Part II focuses on knowing how to make good objective observations, gather the client's subjective input, report and record these observations.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eight professors of color discuss the special pressures minority faculty face in majority white institutions. Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty. Across America campus diversity is under attack; affirmative action programs are banned, ethnic studies departments defunded, multicultural scholarship impugned....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this program we examine how teachers think about guidance and discipline, the influences affecting them in determining what they consider either acceptable or challenging behaviour. Teachers also discuss the importance of teamwork and staff support in helping them deal with the challenging behaviour more prevalent in the new millennium.
6) Skin Deep
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A multi-racial group of college students in a weekend racial sensitivity workshop discuss affirmative action, self-segregation, internalized racism and cultural identity. Skin Deep chronicles the eye-opening journey of a diverse and divided group of college students as they awkwardly but honestly confront each other's racial prejudices. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Frances Reid follows students from the University of Massachusetts, Texas A&M,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fear and uncertainty in the workplace hurt the morale of teams and lead to pessimism, poor focus and subpar performance. Jon Gordon's strategies for successfully uniting teams center on his belief that communication is key. Start by sharing a unifying vision that rallies a team toward a common purpose. Stay positive on a daily basis, celebrate successes, and deal with negativity head on. Engage employees by helping them find their own personal vision...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the aftershocks of socialism's failure, they fight in their own way for a new leftism. In the middle of the struggle, a skeptical American is won over by their cause and even goes to jail with them. The activists, whether clashing with police or squatting in an old factory, risk everything to live their politics....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stop by our video ice cream shop and listen to realistic advice from teens who have made their step-family situation work for them. Just like blending ice cream ingredients to create an interesting new flavor, blending the personalities and lifestyles of two families takes know-how, experimenting and patience.--Kanopy.
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Companies compete to find and keep the best employees, using pay, benefits, promotions, and training. But these well-intentioned efforts often miss the mark. The front-line manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. No matter how generous its pay or how renowned its training, the company that lacks great front-line managers will suffer. The authors explain how the best managers select an employee for talent rather than for...
13) Seniors
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to "Frosh", returns to Stanford to examine the student's developmental changes four years later. For most students, college is a time of dizzying personal change, both confusing and exhilarating. Seniors: Four Years in Retrospect helps prepare undergraduates to take full advantage of these invaluable years of questioning and growth. The filmmakers of Frosh, the widely acclaimed chronicle of one year in a racially diverse freshman residence...
14) Nobody's perfect
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tracing one man's attempt to organize a nude photo shoot of 12 prenatal victims of the toxic drug Thalidomide (including himself), NoBodys's perfect is alternately hilarious, insightful and sad, and entirely allergic to sentimentality or easy platitudes.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Forty people between the ages of 75 and 100 share their thoughts on what is meant by the phrase "a life well lived", touching upon such topics as perseverence, the resilience of the human spirit, and staying positive when faced with life's greatest challenges.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The New Black boldy examines the controversial and challenging issues the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s...
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English
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Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural appropriation to power dynamics, "reverse racism" to white...
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City Lights Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
""Sparing neither family nor self he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people's favor. His candor is invigorating."-Publishers Weekly" One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation."-Michael Eric Dyson The old notion that "being white means never having to think about it" is being challenged on all fronts as whites are increasingly having to wrestle with what it means...
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