This series was made from posts written in 2016 and combined at a later date.
Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher’s Story
Kwanzaa is often defined as “a secular festival observed by many African Americans from December 26 to January 1 as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values.” Although acknowledged mostly in December, Kwanzaa carries a message that can be celebrated and honored all year long. Themes of creativity, unity, and love are expressed in the tradition. Kwanzaa teaches it’s participants to love all people, and to celebrate diversity, just as Kwanzaa and Me does.
“All these white schools I’ve been sent to are racist,“ Sonya says. “I’d have done better in a black school. I was an outsider here.” These are hard words for Vivian Paley, whose own kindergarten was one of Sonya’s schools, the integrated classroom so lovingly and hopefully depicted by Paley in White Teacher. Confronted with the grown-up Sonya, now on her way to a black college, and with a chorus of voices questioning the fairness and effectiveness of integrated education, Paley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it.“ Vivian Paley offers these discoveries to readers as a starting point for their own journeys toward community and kinship in today’s schools and tomorrow’s culture.
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Hanukkah in America: A History
The Holidays are here! Learn more about Hanukkah below:
The ways in which Hanukkah was reshaped by American Jews reveals the changing goals and values that emerged among different contingents each December as they confronted the reality of living as a religious minority in the United States. Bringing together clergy and laity, artists and businessmen, teachers, parents, and children, Hanukkah has been a dynamic force for both stability and change in American Jewish life.
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Christmas and the British: A Modern History
Ready for the most wonderful time of the year? We’ve got all the details on the history of Modern Christmas below!
The modern Christmas was made by the Victorians and rooted in their belief in commerce, family and religion. Their rituals and traditions persist to the present day but the festival has also been changed by growing affluence, shifting family structures, greater expectations of happiness and material comfort, technological developments and falling religious belief. Christmas became a battleground for arguments over consumerism, holiday entitlements, social obligations, communal behavior and the influence of church, state and media.
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