No more Cosby re-runs for me. I’ve got a new family to look at.
Growing up, I recall my desire for more television shows which featured a family that looked like mine. I was only 10 when I became aware of how different my brown-skinned family looked against the traditional backdrop of white faces on mainstream television shows.
I began to feverously question the color of my skin, the texture of my hair, the clothes I wore, how I talked, against the perfect, yet fictional families who represented the white American Dream—the Tanners, the Taylors, the Camdens.
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Death of the McMansion
The size of newly constructed homes has been swelling for decades. That is, until 2008. Ken Malloy, a local accountant, lives with his wife, Lynne, in such a house, described as a McMansion—a term that sprung up in the 1990s as a way to describe the oversized, cookie-cutter houses that have been sprouting up all over American suburbs.
Extreme Green
Jena Barch / Dec. 17, 2009 / Comments Off
Will a model city for environmental sustainability be the next way of life? Forget long showers when there’s an 80-liter daily limit on water consumption. Instead of exhaust-filled traffic, moving pods weave between buildings and walkways. Taking out the trash is never a chore when only 2 percent of all waste goes to landfills.
Citizenship Test
For immigrants to achieve the American dream of becoming a full citizen, they need to pass a test proving their knowledge of American government, history, and legal system. Flux Magazine went on the streets of the University of Minnesota campus to see if students would be able to pass the test.
