Watchu reading right now?

[LesYpersound]

...you know the drill. :]


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[LesYpersound]

Poems of Fernando Pessoa
and
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

[Nadia C]

Twilight by stephen meyer. Haven't seen the movie. The book is a great read so far,thogh. Great prose language. I was also reading something about buddhist practices.

[jahluv]

Oxford American
Issue 64
RACE: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

I bought it because of the great looking cover - it's a good read. Check it out if you stumble across it...

Newest Juxtapoz - hey fuckers, when is my sub going to kick in?

"Spitting in the eye of mainstream education..."

Interesting article in last Sunday's LA Times - have read it a few times, and it reinforces my beliefs about education and quashes my credibility as a self proclaimed liberal...

But...
"...the largest ethnic group is Asian, followed by Latinos and African Americans. Some of the schools' critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well -- in fact, better on some tests.

That makes American Indian a rarity in American education, defying the axiom that poor black and Latino children will lag behind others in school."

I've got a stack of books in my son's closet that I want to read but have no motivation to pick up and start. What's wrong with me?

[Compound Egret]

^^^^^
You have a lot of stuff to do...marriage, parenting, exercise, a full time job, etc.

As for me...
Pimpology: 48 laws of Game-Pimpin' Ken
Street Soldiers-Joe Marshall
Beginners Guide to Day Trading-Toni Turner
I'm not trying to go intraday, but There's a lot of info on Swing and Intermediate trading in here. If I'm not willing to hold indexes all the way to the (hopefully temporary) gutters I'm doing a superblunt version of trend trading anyway. If you see a post about a CE "couch tour" you'll know I crapped out.

[LesYpersound]

jahluv said:

But...
"...the largest ethnic group is Asian, followed by Latinos and African Americans. Some of the schools' critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well -- in fact, better on some tests. That makes American Indian a rarity in American education, defying the axiom that poor black and Latino children will lag behind others in school."

it's interesting how persistent stereotypes are... there are immigrant and a lot of refugee families that have many of the same disadvantages found in poor black and latino communities. so, i'm not too sure if the idea is that latinos and african americans are excelling or that the financially poor and disadvantaged asian american family is invisible once again (compare indochinese refugees [laos, hmong, viet, cambodian] to blacks and latinos and i'm pretty sure the stats will look roughly the same) and the aggregate stats are being used to make misleading judgments about the so-called model minority and other minority groups...

just saying, the idea of the model minority was created to divide and conquer and unfortunately it masks the real problems in less visible asian american communities.

anyway love seeing what you all are reading. :]

[jahluv]

You've picked up on a point that I missed. This school serves an area of poor, working class people. The "Asian" population at the school isn't described in any depth - like you just did - nor are the Black or Hispanic kids' backgrounds delved into. Was the author looking at Black children with immigrant parents from Africa and or the West Indies? Are the Hispanic kids Mexican, or have parents from Central/South America or the Spanish speaking Carribean....

The Times should hire you as an editor!

LesYpersound said:

jahluv said:

But...
"...the largest ethnic group is Asian, followed by Latinos and African Americans. Some of the schools' critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well -- in fact, better on some tests. That makes American Indian a rarity in American education, defying the axiom that poor black and Latino children will lag behind others in school."

it's interesting how persistent stereotypes are... there are immigrant and a lot of refugee families that have many of the same disadvantages found in poor black and latino communities. so, i'm not too sure if the idea is that latinos and african americans are excelling or that the financially poor and disadvantaged asian american family is invisible once again (compare indochinese refugees [laos, hmong, viet, cambodian] to blacks and latinos and i'm pretty sure the stats will look roughly the same) and the aggregate stats are being used to make misleading judgments about the so-called model minority and other minority groups...

just saying, the idea of the model minority was created to divide and conquer and unfortunately it masks the real problems in less visible asian american communities.

anyway love seeing what you all are reading. :]

[MissE]

I've gotten back into a habit I'd kind of stopped once I got to college, reading more than one book at a time.

John Adams by David McCullough. I was one of the hostess when he came to my school (History students get to rub elbows with celebs too sometimes) and he signed the copy my teacher gave me.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame - Smith
Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard Foster by Joanne Passet

[˙dəəɹɔ]

slow start out but it's really getting good now. def. not a children's book like i thought.

[LesYpersound]

Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill

"The purpose of Practical Mysticism is to introduce the methods and practice of mysticism to those who have no prior knowledge of the subject. Here we find what mysticism is and what it has to offer the average man: how it helps to solve this problems, how it increases his efficiency, and how it harmonizes with the duties and ideals of his active life. Those Those who read and savor the book will learn how the practice of mysticism can enrich their daily living in countless ways."

...haha, found it at a book fair. not a first edition, but it's my first owned book by her... read a bit from her back in college, but the back cover blurb sounds like the reader is about to join a (male-centered) cult. heh.

[BlkGothGrl]

Finally slugging my way through Stephen King's Dark Tower series.... I read the first three when they originally came out (what was that, late '80s?) then bought the remaining 4 when I saw them, but never sat down to read them til now...

[Vicki FM aka "Slip-Knaughty"]

Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. I plan on reading all her books. Only read 4 of hers so far. I got alot more to go.

[jahluv]

Went by Eso Won Books last weekend - if you live in LA, stop by the shop, buy something and show some love - the place was deserted...

Anyway, I digress... I picked up Divided Skies: Establishing Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama 1934-1942 by Robert Jakeman. What could be a really dryly written tome is a lively page turning account of the history leading up to the Tuskegee Airmen. Been putting away a chapter a day during my lunch hour.

Came back from lunch today and did a Yahoo search on a 1930s era black pilots' club that was based out of Los Angeles and mentioned in the book I'm reading. Hit a link for another book called Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America by Douglas Flamming. I was going to buy it off Amazon, then found a free download for it. WTF!? Bootleg books now? Here's the link if anyone else wants to read it...