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Segregation in MN

Posted onApril 3, 2018February 7, 2019 By David Perry

Minnesota remains highly segregated when it comes to adults with disabilities. Read this new Star Tribune report.

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Register to attend UMN History Department book club with Matt Gabriele and, well, me! We're gonna chat about #TheBrightAges.

5-6, Wednesday. Register here.

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We host a monthly virtual book club where we to discuss literature that offers historical perspectives on today's current political and social climates.

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My son has always been super into Monsters Inc and Monsters University. He has an number of plush toys - Mike, Sully, some of the Oozma Kappa guys. So when a coworker told my wife she had an extra Boo toy, we thought he’d be excited.

But kids aren’t allowed in Monstropolis.

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NEWS: My co-author and I are teaching a short course on medieval Europe with Chapter, a new website hosting classes by experts. And by me. 🙂

We'll cover the (alleged) fall of Rome, the Crusades, the Black Death, and nostalgia for the Middle Ages with readings, videos, and discussions. All asynchronous.

It's an experiment and we'd love to have you along for the ride.

Curated content, Q&A and community discussion. It’s like a book club, but way more fun.

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"[Although] One board member was quick to assert he wasn't "against teaching the Holocaust," they apparently couldn't allow it to be taught in a way that included profanity and nudity -- in other words, in a way that conveys its dehumanizing reality. The same board member said, "[Maus] shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff, it is not wise or healthy."

But this betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what education is. To ban "Maus" for being an uncomfortable read is, in fact, to be against teaching the Holocaust, regardless of the school board member's protests to the contrary.

My latest CNN Opinion.

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David Perry shares his first time reading Art Spiegelman's graphic novel 'Maus' as a teenager, explaining why the discomfort it caused him was part of a deep learning experience. That's why a recent move in Tennessee to ban the book is so chilling, he argues: To outlaw this book is to outlaw good te...

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"Such is man's triumph. He is weaker than other animals, unable to hibernate or migrate, and the prey of every storm, but he has a mind. Time has no reality to him, and the grave....no total triumph."

(by my grandad, written in '78)

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My last picture with my dad while he was conscious, a day or two after thanksgiving. He passed away this morning.

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